Algiers with a total population of 2.9 million inhabitants is the largest, most important city and the capital city of Algeria. It is nicknamed "Alger la Blanch" or "Algiers the White" for the glistening white buildings as seen sloping up from the sea. It is located on the Mediterranean Sea, in the north-central part of the country, in from a cluster of islets that have now been turned into a part of the port