The Spanish officials reportedly explained that the Sahara is, in fact, much larger. The Sahara desert stretches about 3,000 miles across northern Africa, making is about 1,000 miles longer than ...

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Western Sahara is a sparsely-populated area of mostly desert situated on the northwest coast of Africa. A former Spanish colony, it was annexed by Morocco in 1975.

As Spanish Colonel Miguel Simón Contreras points out in his article «Ifni y Sahara, hoy», by December 9, Sidi Ifni had proven ...

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The population of the Spanish Sahara, now called the Western Sahara, is estimated to be around 632,200 in an area the size of Colorado, about 97,344 square miles.

Once known as Spanish Sahara, the area was among the last vestiges of Spain’s empire. It has rich resources, including phosphate deposits and fish stocks. When Spain withdrew in 1975, it agreed ...

Western Sahara is a sparsely-populated area of mostly desert situated on the northwest coast of Africa. A former Spanish colony, it was annexed by Morocco in 1975.