Algiers

Algeria

Algiers, officially Capital City of Algiers, is the capital and largest city of Algeria, located on the Mediterranean Sea in the north-central portion of the country. In 2025, an estimated 4.325 million people resided within the urban area. Algiers is the third-largest city on the Mediterranean, the tenth-largest city in the Arab world, and the 19th-largest city in Africa by population.

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Country: Algeria
Population: 3,354,000
Latitude: 36.77° N
Longitude: 3.05° E

Which way is Algiers from…

From Paris, Algiers lies at 177° to the south, 1,346 km as the crow flies.

Paris	177° south	1,346 km
London	170° south	1,658 km
New York	67° north-east	6,475 km
Madrid	123° south-east	713 km
Rome	238° south-west	992 km
Montreal	70° east	6,245 km
Saint-Denis, Réunion	319° north-west	8,441 km

Bearings as the crow flies (great circle), measured from north. From somewhere else, the bearing changes: that’s the whole game.

Oùcécap’s take

For once, a flat map and your compass agree on Algiers: from London, it lies south, at 170°, 1,658 km away. From New York it is another story: the map says 94°, east; the compass says 67°, north-east. One more curiosity: the point exactly opposite Algiers on the globe lies 873 km from Wellington.