Geography of Western Sahara
- Western Sahara is: a disputed/occupied territory, listed by the United Nations as a non-annself-governing territory (a colony).
- Morocco claims the region as its Southern Provinces, and occupies the area west of the Moroccan Wall.
- Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic claims sovereignty over the entire territory, occupies the area east of the Moroccan Wall, but most of the people under its direct jurisdiction live in the Sahrawi refugee camps in the Tindouf Province, Algeria.
- Location
- Western Sahara is situated within the following regions:
- Northern Hemisphere and Western Hemisphere
- Africa
- Sahara Desert
- North Africa
- Time zone: Coordinated Universal Time UTC+00
- Extreme points of Western Sahara
- High: unnamed location 805 m (2,641 ft)
- Low: Sebjet Tah −55 m (−180 ft)
- Land boundaries: 2,046 km
- Western Sahara is situated within the following regions:
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- Mauritania 1,561 km
- Morocco 443 km
- Algeria 42 km
- Coastline: North Atlantic Ocean 1,110 km
- Population of Western Sahara: 480,000 - 167th most populous country
- Area of Western Sahara: 266,000 km2
- Atlas of Western Sahara
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