an ancient port on the Mediterranean; the capital and largest city of Algeria

Algiers (Arabic: الجزائر al-Jazāʼir, literally "the Islands"; Berber: Ldzayer, ) is the capital and largest city of Algeria in North Africa. According to the 1998 census the population of the city proper was 1,519,570, whereas the population for the metropolitan area was 2,135,630. 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, it is situated on the west side of a bay of the Mediterranean Sea.

Algiers is a 1938 film directed by John Cromwell and starring Charles Boyer, Sigrid Gurie, and Hedy Lamarr. The Walter Wanger production was a remake of the successful 1937 French film Pépé le Moko, which derived its plot from the Henri La Barthe novel of the same name. John Howard Lawson wrote the screenplay.