6. The Sahara desert covers more than 80% of Algeria.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-14118853
http://polyglotlegend.blogspot.ch/2015/06/algeria-cool-facts-39.html
14. Albert Camus won the Nobel
prize in literature in 1957.
Camus was also a goalkeeper
on the football team of the
University of Algiers.
http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1957/camus-bio.html
http://sfacts.eu/2015/09/fun-facts-about-algeria/
20. Algeria, Nigeria, and Indonesia have produced similar
quantities of oil since 1970.
In Indonesia, manufacturing and services account for
70% of GDP - compared with less than 45% in Algeria
and Nigeria.
http://www.mckinsey.com/global-themes/middle-east-and-africa/whats-driving-africas-growth