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SERIAL · 732Africa

Western Sahara

CurrencyMAD · Moroccan dirham
LanguageArabic
ISOESH · EH
Population
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Watermark portrait: El-Ouali Mustapha Sayed
— THE COUNTRY —

Disputed territory in north-western Africa

Western Sahara is a United Nations–designated non-self-governing territory in north-western Africa. It has a surface area of 272,000 square kilometres (105,000 sq mi). Western Sahara is the last African colonial state yet to achieve independence and has been dubbed "Africa's last colony". With an estimated 600,000 inhabitants, it is the most sparsely populated territory in Africa and the second most sparsely populated territory in the world after Greenland, consisting mainly of desert flatlands.

Text: Wikipedia — Western SaharaCC BY-SA 4.0 · revised 2026-07-21

— FACTS —
Currency
Moroccan dirham (MAD)
Official language
Arabic
Drives on the
Right
Calling code
+212
Lowest point
Sebkha Tah (-55 m)
Facts: Wikidata (CC0) · as of 2026-08-03

The World Bank does not publish figures for Western Sahara, so this note carries no economic or social statistics.

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— TRADE —

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Anthem
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Capital time
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Neighbours
AlgeriaMauritaniaMorocco
Landmarks
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People
El-Ouali Mustapha Sayedco-founder and general-secretary of the Polisario (1948-1976)
Bouchraya Hammoudi BayounPrime Minister of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic
Mohamed Lamine Ould AhmedPrime Minister of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic
Mahfoud Ali BeibaPrime Minister of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (1953–2010)
Najla Mohamed-LaminWestern Saharan women's rights and climate activist (* 1989)
Elkouria AmidaneSahrawi activist (* 1985)
Bahia Mahmud AwahWestern Saharan writer
El Wali Amidanesahraui human rights activist (* 1986)
Mohamed ElmoutaoikilSahrawi activist
Brahim MojtarSahrawi politician
Mohamed Fadel Ismail Ould Es-SweyihSahrawi nationalist politician
Omar Emboirik AhmedWestern Sahara politician
History
No confirmed dated history on file for Western Sahara
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1960 → now
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