Photo location game · Africa
Algeria landmarks quiz: guess where 8 photos were taken
8 photos taken in Algeria, each marked on the map with a line about the place. Each round picks five.
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You see a photo, then the map. Five rounds from Algeria, scored by how far your pin lands from the real spot.
Tap the map where you think this is
Where they are
8 on the mapAll 8 places
Algeria's second city, with the Santa Cruz fort on a hill above the harbour.
Photo: Benba.d.mourad / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
The 'City of Bridges', built on a rock plateau split by a deep gorge.
Photo: Bernard Gagnon / CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
A Saharan plateau of sandstone forests holding thousands of prehistoric rock paintings.
Photo: magharebia / CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Volcanic peaks in the heart of the Sahara, home of the Tuareg.
Photo: Bernard Gagnon / CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
A Roman hill town with a forum, theatre and temples in the Algerian mountains.
Photo: Alioueche Mokhtar / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
A Roman colony on a perfect grid, the 'Pompeii of Africa'.
Photo: Bernard Gagnon / CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
The ruins of an 11th-century fortified capital in the Hodna mountains.
Photo: R hakka / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Five fortified hill towns of the Mozabites in a Saharan valley.
Photo: Camille Gillet / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia CommonsHow to place them
Constantine is the furthest north and Hoggar Mountains the furthest south, 1,450 km apart. Around Djemila, in the north, Constantine, Timgad and Qal'at Bani Hammad sit within 120 km.
By rating, the photos are three easy, four medium and one hard. The hard one is Constantine. The easy ones are Tassili n'Ajjer, Hoggar Mountains and Timgad. Tassili n'Ajjer counts any pin within 150 km as a direct hit, the most room on this page. Qal'at Bani Hammad is the ruins of an 11th-century fortified capital in the Hodna mountains.
The daily in the app mixes photos from all 167 countries in the game, five a day, the same five for everyone.
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How many places in Algeria are in the game?
8 places. Constantine is the furthest north and Hoggar Mountains the furthest south.
What is the hardest photo from Algeria?
Constantine, the only photo rated hard. On any photo the score halves for every 693 km you are outside the accuracy radius.
Which photo is the easiest to score full points on?
Tassili n'Ajjer: its accuracy radius is 150 km, so any pin inside that circle scores 5,000.