What is the largest country in Africa by area?
Algeria.
Algeria, with a total area of 2,381,741 square kilometres, is the largest nation in Africa. Sudan (1,886,068 square kilometres) and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (2,344,858 square kilometres) are next in size.
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Algeria is a country in North Africa that is bordered to the east by Tunisia and Libya, to the south by Mali and Niger, to the west by Mauritania and Morocco, and to the north by the Mediterranean Sea. The majority of the nation is made up of desert, with the Sahara Desert taking up around 80% of its space.
The Central African Republic, Republic of the Congo, Angola, Zambia, Tanzania, Burundi, Rwanda, Uganda, and South Sudan are the nine nations that border the Democratic Republic of the Congo, which is situated in Central Africa. The Congo Rainforest, the second-largest rainforest in the world, is located there.
Sudan is a country in Northeastern Africa, bordering to the north by Egypt, to the northeast by Libya, to the east by Chad, to the south by South Sudan, to the southwest by the Central African Republic, to the west by the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and to the northwest by Ethiopia and Eritrea. The longest river in the world, the Nile, originates in Sudan.