ALGERIA IS IN NORTH AFRICA ON THE MEDITERRANEAN COAST
North Africa is bad for that
WHAT DO YOU MEAN? THE TERM 'NORTH AFRICA' HAS NO SINGLE ACCEPTED DEFINITION.
tell me more about the coast
North Africa
North Africa is a region encompassing the northern portion of the African continent. There is no singularly accepted scope for the region, and it is sometimes defined as stretching from the Atlantic shores of Morocco in the west, to Egypt's Suez Canal and the Red Sea in the east. Others have limited it to the countries of Algeria, Morocco, and Tunisia, a region that was known by the French during colonial times as "Afrique du Nord" and is known by Arabs as the Maghreb ("West
. However, Robin Law notes that some commentators have argued that Hanno exploration have taken him no further than southern Morocco.
"Africa" is named for the Afri people who settled in the area of current-day Tunisia. The Roman province of Africa spanned the Mediterranean coast of what is now Libya, Tunisia and Algeria. The parts of North Africa north of the Sahara were well known in antiquity. Prior to the 2nd century BC, however, Greek geographers were unaware that the land mass then known as Libya expanded