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Name
Other forms of the name are: الجزائر, الدزاير; Lezzayer; ⵜⴰⴳⴷⵓⴷⴰ ⵜⴰⵎⴳⴷⴰⵢⵜ ⵜⴰⵖⵔⴼⴰⵏⵜ ⵜⴰⴷⵣⴰⵢⵔⵉⵢⵜ;Algérie. It is officially the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria (الجمهورية الجزائرية الديمقراطية الشعبية, République algérienne démocratique et populaire, abbreviated as RADP).

Etymology
The country's name derives from the city of Algiers which in turn derives from the Arabic al-Jazāʾir (الجزائر, "The Islands"), a truncated form of the older Jazāʾir Banī Mazghanna (جزائر بني مزغنة, "Islands of the Mazghanna Tribe"),  employed by medieval geographers such as al-Idrisi.