21-9-14
Algeria & Morocco: World's Most Self-Destructive Rivalry - Caspian Report > .
Western Sahara is a
disputed territory in
North-western Africa. Western Sahara is located on the north-west coast in
West Africa and on the cusp of
North Africa, bordering the North
Atlantic Ocean to the northwest,
Morocco proper to
the north-northeast,
Algeria to
the east-northeast, and
Mauritania to
the east and south. It has a surface area of 272,000 square kilometres (105,000 sq mi). Approximately 30% of the territory (82,500 km2 (31,900 sq mi)) is controlled by the
Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR); the remaining 70% is
occupied and administered by neighboring
Morocco. It is the most sparsely populated territory in Africa and the
second most sparsely populated territory in the world,
mainly consisting of desert flatlands. The population is estimated at 618,600. Nearly 40% of that population lives in Morocco-controlled
Laayoune, the largest city of Western Sahara.
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