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Algeria
Algeria is Africa's largest country by area, stretching from a Mediterranean coastline in the north to a vast expanse of the Sahara Desert covering most of its southern two-thirds. Decades of low visitor numbers, driven by a difficult visa process and lingering caution after the 1990s civil conflict, have left it one of North Africa's least-visited countries relative to its size and history -- a contrast with its extensive Roman, Ottoman, and French colonial heritage.
Algeria's history under French rule ended in 1962 after an eight-year war of independence, and that colonial period still shapes the country's architecture and language alongside its deeper Arab, Amazigh (Berber), and Mediterranean roots.
Its landscape is genuinely varied -- Algiers' whitewashed Kasbah and Mediterranean waterfront, Roman ruins scattered across the north, and the dramatic dune landscapes of the deep Sahara around Ghardaia and Tassili n'Ajjer each represent very different sides of the country.