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Western Sahara (disputed territory) |
Coordinates: |
| Lat: 25 00 00 N degrees minutes |
Lat: 25.0000 decimal degrees |
| Long: 013 30 00 W degrees minutes |
Long: -13.5000 decimal degrees |
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Note: First settled by hunters and herders; traded with Europe by 4th century BCE; occupied in medieval times by Ṣanhajāh Berbers, later by Arabic-speaking Muslim Bedouins; Spanish arrived 1476, ruled from 19th century; now primarily occupied by Morocco (Al-Magreb) with the exception of a small strip of land. Considered a "disputed territory," and classified by the UN as a "non-self-governing territory," with the claimants being Morocco and the partially recognized Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic and their liberation movement known as the Polisario Front. |
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| Western Sahara (preferred,C,O,English-P,U,N)
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| El Sáhara (C,V)
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| El Sáhara Español (C,V,Spanish)
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| Province of Sahara (C,V,Spanish)
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| Provincia del Sáhara (C,V,Spanish)
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| Provincia Española de Sáhara (C,V)
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| Provincia del Sáhara Español (C,V)
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| Saharā' al-Gharbīyah (C,V)
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| Westliche Sahara (C,O)
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| Sahara Occidentale (C,O,Italian)
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| Sahara Occidental (C,O,Galician)
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| Sahara occidental (C,O,French)
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| Sahara occidental (Interlingua (International Auxiliary Language Association))
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| Saara Ocidental (C,O,Portuguese)
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| Spanish Western Sahara (C,V,English)
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| ESH (C,O,ISO3L)
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| EH (C,O,ISO2L)
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| ISO732 (C,O,ISO3N)
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| WI (C,V,FIPS)
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| An Sahára Thiar (C,U,O,Irish Gaelic)
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| Batı Sahara (C,U,Turkish)
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| Ɣetoɖoƒe Sahara nutome (C,U,Ewe)
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| Gorllewin y Sahara (C,U,Welsh)
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| i-Western Sahara (C,U,Zulu)
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| Lääne-Sahara (C,U,Estonian)
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| Länsi-Sahara (C,U,Finnish)
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| Mendebaldeko Sahara (C,U,Basque)
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| Nyugat-Szahara (C,U,Magyar (Hungarian))
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| Oarje-Sahára (C,U,Northern Sami)
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| Okcidenta Saharo (C,U,Esperanto)
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| Provincia del Sáhara Español (C,U,Spanish)
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| Qərb Sahara (C,U,Azerbaijani)
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| RASD (C,U,Spanish)
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| República Árabe Saharaui Democrática (C,U,Spanish)
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| República Àrab Saharauí Democràtica (C,U,Catalan)
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| Rietumsahāra (C,U,Latvian)
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| Sahala fakahihifo (C,U,Tonga (Tonga Islands))
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| Sahara ar Cʼhornôg (C,U,Breton)
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| Sahara Barat (C,U,Indonesian)
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| Sahara Barat (Malay (macrolanguage))
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| Saharaja Perëndimore (C,U,Albanian)
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| Sahara Killiit (C,U,Greenlandic)
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| Sahara Magharibi (C,U,Swahili (generic))
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| Sàhara Occidental (C,U,Catalan)
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| Sáhara Occidental (C,U,Spanish)
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| Sahara Occidentală (C,U,Romanian)
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| Sahara Occidentala (C,U,Romansh)
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| Sahara tal-Punent (C,U,Maltese)
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| Sahara ya límbe (C,U,Lingala)
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| Sahara Zachodnia (C,U,Polish)
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| Tây Sahara (C,U,Vietnamese)
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| Vakarų Sachara (C,U,Lithuanian)
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| Västsahara (C,U,Swedish)
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| Vest-Sahara (C,U,Norwegian (Nynorsk))
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| Vest-Sahara (Norwegian (Bokmål))
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| Vestsahara (C,U,Danish)
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| Vestursahara (C,U,Faroese)
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| Vestur-Sahara (C,U,Icelandic)
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| Wes-Sahara (C,U,Afrikaans)
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| Westelijke Sahara (C,U,Dutch)
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| Westsahara (C,U,German)
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| Zahodna Sahara (C,U,Slovene)
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| Zapadna Sahara (C,U,Croatian)
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| Zapadna Sahara (Bosnian)
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| Západná Sahara (C,U,Slovak)
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| Západní Sahara (C,U,Czech)
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| لصحراء الغربية (C,U,Arabic)
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| အနောက်ပိုင်း ဆာဟာရ (C,U,Burmese)
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| බටහිර සහරාව (C,U,Sinhala)
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| Западна Сахара (C,U,Serbian)
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| Западна Сахара (Macedonian)
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| Западна Сахара (Bulgarian)
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| 西撒哈拉 (C,U,Chinese)
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| Западная Сахара (C,U,Russian)
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| סהרה המערבית (C,U,Hebrew )
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| Заходняя Сахара (C,U,Belarusian)
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| الصحراء الغربية (C,U,Arabic)
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| 서사하라 (C,U,Korean)
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| ຊາຮາລາຕະເວັນຕົກ (C,U,Lao)
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| 西サハラ (C,U,Japanese)
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| पश्चिमी साहारा (C,U,Nepali)
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| పడమటి సహారా (C,U,Telugu)
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| ڕۆژاوای سەحرا (C,U,Kurdish)
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| صحرای غربی (C,U,Persian-Farsi)
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| மேற்கு சஹாரா (C,U,Tamil)
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| പശ്ചിമ സഹാറ (C,U,Malayalam)
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| ಪಶ್ಚಿಮ ಸಹಾರಾ (C,U,Kannada)
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| ପଶ୍ଚିମ ସାହାରା (C,U,Odia)
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| Արեվմտյան Սահարա (C,U,Armenian)
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| ምዕራባዊ ሳህራ (C,U,Tigrinya)
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| ምዕራባዊ ሳህራ (Amharic)
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| Західна Сахара (C,U,Ukrainian)
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| पश्चिम सहारा (C,U,Marathi)
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| ซาฮาราตะวันตก (C,U,Thai)
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| પશ્ચિમી સહારા (C,U,Gujarati)
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| Δυτική Σαχάρα (C,U,Greek)
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| পশ্চিমী সাহারা (C,U,Bengali)
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| पश्चिमी सहारा (C,U,Hindi)
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| សាហារ៉ាខាងលិច (C,U,Khmer)
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| مغربی صحارا (C,U,Urdu)
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| დასავლეთი საჰარა (C,U,Georgian)
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| Rio de Oro (H,V)
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| Spanish Sahara (H,O,English)
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Additional Parents: |
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Place Types: |
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| disputed territory (preferred, C) |
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| occupied territory (C) |
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split between Mauritania and Morocco 1976-1979; by Morocco, after August 1979 |
| political entity (C) |
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| primary political unit (C) |
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| former territory/colony/dependent state (C) |
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| controlled region (H) |
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Spanish, from 15th cen. |
| province (H) |
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Spanish, 1958-1975 |
| colony (H) |
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Spanish, status ended 1958 |
| protectorate (H) |
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established 1884 |
| territory (C) |
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Sources and Contributors: |
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| República Árabe Saharaui Democrática.......... |
[VP] |
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GeoNames online [n.d.] 2461445 |
| República Àrab Saharauí Democràtica.......... |
[VP] |
| ........................................................... |
GeoNames online [n.d.] 2461445 |
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