Worth knowing
Algeria
Tassili n'Ajjer is a plateau of eroded sandstone 'rock forests' deep in the Sahara. Its art, begun around 6000 BC, records a changing climate and the animals that came and went with it.
Where its story happens
Tassili n'Ajjer, at 25.50°N, 9.00°E. It's the place the game marks on the globe once the country is found. See it on a map.
Five things to know about Algeria
In Geodar these are the five clues to this country, and it counts as one of the middling countries. The game asks the hardest clue first. Here the easiest comes first.
- Where it is. It's Algeria, on the Mediterranean coast of North Africa, between Morocco and Tunisia. See Algeria on a map.
- It is the largest country in Africa, and more than four-fifths of it is Sahara.
- Saint Augustine and the novelist Albert Camus were both born here, more than 1,500 years apart.
- Its capital climbs a hillside above the Mediterranean: white buildings around an old quarter called the Casbah.
- More than 15,000 rock paintings and engravings in its desert show cattle herders from when the Sahara was green.