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At the northwestern end of a large bay in the Mediterranean Sea spawned the capital of Algeria-Algiers. The city's industrial activity is concentrated to the south and east, on the plain of the Mitidja. While, the region contains 48 percent of the country's factories and 55 percent of its industrial workforce, it also is home to over 3 million people.

The end of the nineteenth century was a time of rapid population increase (by 41 percent from 1886 to 1896, and then to a total of 155,000 settlers and 45,000 Muslims by 1918) and considerable commercial wealth, particularly from wine exports. Public building included a central train depot and a new harbor (both completed by 1896), streetcar lines (begun in 1896), and municipal and educational infrastructures (water, gas, hospitals, a university). Ambitious plans to turn the entire lower Casbah into a city with wide boulevards were quashed by the military, but the incorporation of the suburb of Mustapha in 1904 opened the way for a more systematic southern expansion. Regional Algiers was born.

Algiers (Arabic: الجزائر al-Jazāʼir, literally "the Islands"; Berber: Ldzayer, French: Alger), was nicknamed al-Bahjah (البهجة) or Alger la Blanche ("Algiers the White") for the glistening white of its buildings as seen rising up from the sea. The city name is derived from its location on the slopes of the "Sahel", a chain of hills parallel to the coast. Algiers is the only Algerian city with an English name different from its French name. The urban area of Greater Algiers is the largest one in the Maghreb after Greater Casablanca.

The modern part of the city is built on the level ground by the seashore and the old part, the ancient city of the deys, climbs the steep hill behind the modern town and is crowned by the casbah or citadel, 400 feet above the sea.

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