In honor of Algeria's 2019 Africa Cup of Nations victory, we present to you, eleven outstanding facts about this North African country. 1. Algeria became the largest country in Africa after South Sudan split from Sudan in 2011. Algeria is also the tenth largest country in the world. 2. Four-fifths of Algeria's land is the Sahara desert, leaving just a fifth for habitation. snow in the Algeria Sahara desert 3. Algeria actively took part in the Barbary Slave Trade between the 16th and 18 centuries, which involved the capture and sale of Europeans as slaves in North Africa. According to Robert Davis, between 1 million and 1.25 million Europeans were captured by Barbary pirates and sold as slaves in North Africa and The Ottoman Empire between the 16th and 19th centuries. 4. Algeria produces some of the best dates in the world - the Deglet Nour dates, also named Royal Dates, or referred to as the "queen of all dates". The authentic Algerian Degle
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