Algeria is a country located in North Africa. It is the largest country of the Mediterranean sea, the second largest on the African continent[3] and the eleventh-largest country in the world in terms of land area.[5] It is bordered by Tunisia in the northeast, Libya in the east, Niger in the southeast, Mali and Mauritania in the southwest, a few kilometers of the Western Sahara in the west, Morocco in the northwest, and the Mediterranean Sea in the north. Algeria is a member of the Arab League, United Nations, African Union and OPEC. It also contributed towards the creation of the Arab Maghreb Union.