Algeria covers 2,381,741 km² on the new Equal Earth world map, 1.7% of all land on Earth. It ranks 10th of 237 countries worldwide and 1st in Africa. At 28° latitude the old Mercator map inflates area by about 1.3×, drawing it closer to 3,058,155 km², a difference of roughly 28%.
For scale, Algeria is roughly the same size as Greenland (2,166,086 km²).
You could fit 3 of Turkey inside Algeria.
Algeria: key figures
| True area | 2,381,741 km² |
| World rank | 10th |
| Share of world land | 1.7% |
| Rank in Africa | 1st / 58 |
| Old-map (Mercator) inflation | 1.3× |
| Apparent size on Mercator | 3,058,155 km² |
Largest countries in Africa (true area)
| Africa | |
|---|
| Algeria (this country) | 2,381,741 km² |
| Democratic Republic of the Congo | 2,344,858 km² |
| Sudan | 1,878,000 km² |
| Libya | 1,759,540 km² |
| Chad | 1,284,000 km² |
| Niger | 1,267,000 km² |