The **People's Democratic Republic of Algeria** is an
[authoritarian](Authoritarianism "wikilink") and
[capitalist](Capitalism "wikilink") [state](List_of_States "wikilink")
in North Africa, near [Spain](Spain "wikilink"),
[Morocco](Morocco "wikilink"), [Western
Sahara](Western_Sahara "wikilink"), [Mauritania](Mauritania "wikilink"),
[Mali](Mali "wikilink"), [Niger](Niger "wikilink") and
[Libya](Libya "wikilink").

## History

### Socialist Algeria

From 1962 to 1989, Algeria was socialist.