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59 relations: Alexandria, Annexation of Western Sahara, Antonio de Oro, Bahrain, Botola 2, Bou Craa, Boujdour, Burundi, Canary Current, Côte d'Ivoire, Central African Republic, Climate Action Tracker, Climate change, Collins English Dictionary, Comoros, Desalination, El Mundo (Spain), Eswatini, Gabon, HarperCollins, Hassan I Airport, Hassaniya Arabic, Haut Commissariat au Plan (Morocco), Human Development Index, JS Massira, Köppen climate classification, Laâyoune Province, Laâyoune-Sakia El Hamra, Lexico, List of cities in Western Sahara, Maghrebi Arabic, Military occupation, Modern Standard Arabic, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Nomad, Oxford University Press, Phosphate, PLOS One, Prefectures and provinces of Morocco, Regions of Morocco, Routledge, Saguia el-Hamra (river), Sahrawis, São Tomé and Príncipe, Sheikh Mohamed Laghdaf Stadium, Spain, Spanish Sahara, Spring (hydrology), St. Francis of Assisi Cathedral, Laayoune, Tarfaya, ... Expand index (9 more) »
- 1938 establishments in Africa
- 1938 establishments in the Spanish Empire
- Populated places in Laâyoune Province
- Populated places in Western Sahara
- Regional capitals in Morocco
Alexandria
Alexandria (الإسكندرية; Ἀλεξάνδρεια, Coptic: Ⲣⲁⲕⲟϯ - Rakoti or ⲁⲗⲉⲝⲁⲛⲇⲣⲓⲁ) is the second largest city in Egypt and the largest city on the Mediterranean coast.
Annexation of Western Sahara
The annexation of Western Sahara occurred in two stages: 1976 and 1979.
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Antonio de Oro
Antonio de Oro Pulido (Ciempozuelos (Madrid), 13 April 1904 – Tetuán, 28 December 1940) was a Spanish military officer, explorer and colonial administrator.
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Bahrain
Bahrain (Two Seas, locally), officially the Kingdom of Bahrain, is an island country in West Asia.
Botola 2
Botola Pro 2, commonly known as Botola 2 (formerly known before as the Groupement National de Football 2), is the second division of the Moroccan football league, behind the Botola, the highest football league in Morocco.
Bou Craa
Bou Craa (also transliterated as Bo Craa, Bu Craa or Boukra) (بوكراع, Berber: ⴱⵓⴽⵔⴰⵄ, Bucraa) is a town in Western Sahara, south-east of the main city of El Aaiún. Laayoune and Bou Craa are Populated places in Laâyoune Province and Populated places in Western Sahara.
Boujdour
Boujdour (or Bujdur, Bojador, بوجدور) is a city in the disputed territory of Western Sahara, near Cape Bojador.
Burundi
Burundi, officially the Republic of Burundi, is a landlocked country in the Great Rift Valley at the junction between the African Great Lakes region and Southeast Africa.
Canary Current
The Canary Current is a wind-driven surface current that is part of the North Atlantic Gyre.
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Côte d'Ivoire
Côte d'Ivoire, also known as Ivory Coast and officially known as the Republic of Côte d'Ivoire, is a country on the southern coast of West Africa.
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Central African Republic
The Central African Republic (CAR), formerly known as Ubangi-Shari, is a landlocked country in Central Africa.
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Climate Action Tracker
Climate Action Tracker (CAT) is an independent scientific project with the aim of monitoring government action to achieve their reduction of greenhouse gas emissions with regard to international agreements – specifically the globally agreed Paris Agreement aim of "holding warming well below 2°C, and pursuing efforts to limit warming to 1.5°C.".
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Climate change
In common usage, climate change describes global warming—the ongoing increase in global average temperature—and its effects on Earth's climate system.
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Collins English Dictionary
The Collins English Dictionary is a printed and online dictionary of English.
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Comoros
The Comoros, officially the Union of the Comoros, is an archipelagic country made up of three islands in Southeastern Africa, located at the northern end of the Mozambique Channel in the Indian Ocean.
Desalination
Desalination is a process that removes mineral components from saline water.
El Mundo (Spain)
(), before, is the second largest printed daily newspaper in Spain.
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Eswatini
Eswatini (eSwatini), officially the Kingdom of Eswatini and also known by its former official name Swaziland and formerly the Kingdom of Swaziland, is a landlocked country in Southern Africa.
Gabon
Gabon (Ngabu), officially the Gabonese Republic (République gabonaise), is a country on the Atlantic coast of Central Africa, on the equator, bordered by Equatorial Guinea to the northwest, Cameroon to the north, the Republic of the Congo on the east and south, and the Gulf of Guinea to the west.
HarperCollins
HarperCollins Publishers LLC is a British-American publishing company that is considered to be one of the "Big Five" English-language publishers, along with Penguin Random House, Hachette, Macmillan, and Simon & Schuster.
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Hassan I Airport
Hassan I Airport (مطار الحسن الأول, Aeropuerto Internacional de El Aaiún – Hassan I, Aéroport international Laâyoune – Hassan Ier) is an airport serving Laayoune, the largest city in Western Sahara.
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Hassaniya Arabic
Hassaniya Arabic (translit; also known as,,,, and Maure) is a variety of Maghrebi Arabic spoken by Mauritanian Arabs and the Sahrawi people.
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Haut Commissariat au Plan (Morocco)
The Haut Commissariat au Plan (HCP) or Higher Planning Commission in Morocco is an independent government statistical institution.
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Human Development Index
The Human Development Index (HDI) is a statistical composite index of life expectancy, education (mean years of schooling completed and expected years of schooling upon entering the education system), and per capita income indicators, which is used to rank countries into four tiers of human development.
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JS Massira
Jeunesse Sportive d'El Massira (نادي شباب المسيرة) is a football club based in Laâyoune, Western Sahara.
Köppen climate classification
The Köppen climate classification is one of the most widely used climate classification systems.
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Laâyoune Province
Laâyoune (إقليمالعيون) is a delineated province in the north-west of Moroccan economic region of Laâyoune-Sakia El Hamra, which is situated within the northern part of the disputed territory of Western Sahara.
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Laâyoune-Sakia El Hamra
Laâyoune-Sakia El Hamra (al-ʿuyūn as-sāqiya l-ḥamrāʾ) is one of the twelve regions of Morocco.
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Lexico
Lexico was a dictionary website that provided a collection of English and Spanish dictionaries produced by Oxford University Press (OUP), the publishing house of the University of Oxford.
List of cities in Western Sahara
The following are cities in Western Sahara, listed by population. Laayoune and list of cities in Western Sahara are Populated places in Western Sahara.
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Maghrebi Arabic
Maghrebi Arabic (as opposed to Eastern or Mashriqi Arabic), often known as ad-Dārija (الدارجة, meaning 'common/everyday ') to differentiate it from Literary Arabic, is a vernacular Arabic dialect continuum spoken in the Maghreb.
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Military occupation
Military occupation, also called belligerent occupation or simply occupation, is temporary hostile control exerted by a ruling power's military apparatus over a sovereign territory that is outside of the legal boundaries of that ruling power's own sovereign territory.
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Modern Standard Arabic
Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) or Modern Written Arabic (MWA) is the variety of standardized, literary Arabic that developed in the Arab world in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and in some usages also the variety of spoken Arabic that approximates this written standard.
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National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (abbreviated as NOAA) is a US scientific and regulatory agency charged with forecasting weather, monitoring oceanic and atmospheric conditions, charting the seas, conducting deep-sea exploration, and managing fishing and protection of marine mammals and endangered species in the US exclusive economic zone.
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Nomad
Nomads are communities without fixed habitation who regularly move to and from areas.
Oxford University Press
Oxford University Press (OUP) is the publishing house of the University of Oxford.
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Phosphate
In chemistry, a phosphate is an anion, salt, functional group or ester derived from a phosphoric acid.
PLOS One
PLOS One (stylized PLOS ONE, and formerly PLoS ONE) is a peer-reviewed open access mega journal published by the Public Library of Science (PLOS) since 2006.
Prefectures and provinces of Morocco
In Morocco, the 75 second-level administrative subdivisions are 13 prefectures and 62 provinces.
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Regions of Morocco
Regions are currently the highest administrative divisions in Morocco.
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Routledge
Routledge is a British multinational publisher.
Saguia el-Hamra (river)
The Saquia el-Hamra (الساقية الحمراء lit. The Red Saturater) is a wadi and intermittent river which rises in the northeast of Western Sahara, some southeast of Farsia.
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Sahrawis
The Sahrawis, or Sahrawi people (صحراويون), are an ethnic group native to the western part of the Sahara desert, which includes the Western Sahara, southern Morocco, much of Mauritania, and along the southwestern border of Algeria.
São Tomé and Príncipe
São Tomé and Príncipe, officially the Democratic Republic of São Tomé and Príncipe, is an island country in the Gulf of Guinea, the western equatorial coast of Central Africa.
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Sheikh Mohamed Laghdaf Stadium
Sheikh Mohamed Laghdaf Stadium (ملعب الشيخ محمد لغضف) is a multi-use stadium located in Laayoune, Western Sahara, occupied by Morocco.
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Spain
Spain, formally the Kingdom of Spain, is a country located in Southwestern Europe, with parts of its territory in the Atlantic Ocean, the Mediterranean Sea and Africa.
Spanish Sahara
Spanish Sahara (Sahara Español; As-Sahrā'a Al-Isbānīyah), officially the Spanish Possessions in the Sahara from 1884 to 1958, then Province of the Sahara between 1958 and 1976, was the name used for the modern territory of Western Sahara when it was occupied and ruled by Spain between 1884 and 1976.
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Spring (hydrology)
A spring is a natural exit point at which groundwater emerges from the aquifer and flows onto the top of the Earth's crust (pedosphere) to become surface water.
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St. Francis of Assisi Cathedral, Laayoune
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Tarfaya
Tarfaya (طرفاية - Ṭarfāya; ⵟⵔⴼⴰⵢⴰ) is a coastal Moroccan town, located at the level of Cape Juby, in western Morocco, on the Atlantic coast. Laayoune and Tarfaya are Provincial capitals in Morocco.
The Economist
The Economist is a British weekly newspaper published in printed magazine format and digitally.
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United Arab Emirates
The United Arab Emirates (UAE), or simply the Emirates, is a country in West Asia, in the Middle East.
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United Nations
The United Nations (UN) is a diplomatic and political international organization whose stated purposes are to maintain international peace and security, develop friendly relations among nations, achieve international cooperation, and serve as a centre for harmonizing the actions of nations.
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United Nations list of non-self-governing territories
Chapter XI of the United Nations Charter defines a non-self-governing territory (NSGT) as a territory "whose people have not yet attained a full measure of self-government".
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United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara
The United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (بعثة الأممالمتحدة لتنظيماستفتاء في الصحراء الغربية; Mission des Nations Unies pour l'Organisation d'un Référendum au Sahara Occidental; Misión de las Naciones Unidas para la Organización de un Referéndum en el Sáhara Occidental; MINURSO) is the United Nations peacekeeping mission in Western Sahara, established in 1991 under United Nations Security Council Resolution 690 as part of the Settlement Plan, which had paved way for a cease-fire in the conflict between Morocco and the Polisario Front (representing the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic) over the contested territory of Western Sahara (formerly Spanish Sahara).
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Urbanization
Urbanization (or urbanisation in British English) is the population shift from rural to urban areas, the corresponding decrease in the proportion of people living in rural areas, and the ways in which societies adapt to this change.
Western Sahara
Western Sahara is a disputed territory in North-western Africa.
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Zambia
Zambia, officially the Republic of Zambia, is a landlocked country at the crossroads of Central, Southern and East Africa.
Zemla Intifada
The Zemla Intifada (or the Zemla Uprising) is the name used to refer to disturbances of 17 June 1970, which culminated in a massacre (between 2 and 11 persons were killed) by Spanish Legion forces in the Zemla district of El Aaiun, Spanish Sahara (nowadays Western Sahara).
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See also
1938 establishments in Africa
1938 establishments in the Spanish Empire
- Laayoune
Populated places in Laâyoune Province
- Bou Craa
- El Marsa, Western Sahara
- Laayoune
Populated places in Western Sahara
- Aftissat
- Agounit
- Agti el Ghazi
- Al Ga'da
- Al Mahbes
- As-Sakn
- Bir Gandus
- Bir Lehlou
- Bir Tiguisit
- Bou Craa
- Cape Bojador
- Dakhla, Western Sahara
- Daoura
- Dougaj
- El Hagounia
- El Marsa, Western Sahara
- Farsia
- Guelta Zemmur
- Guerguerat
- Haouza
- Jdiriya
- Laayoune
- Lemseid
- List of cities in Western Sahara
- Meharrize
- Mijek
- Sahrawi refugee camps
- Sidi Ahmed Laaroussi
- Smara
- Tifariti
- Zaouiat Ahmed Ben Yaddas
- Zug, Western Sahara
Regional capitals in Morocco
- Agadir
- Beni Mellal
- Casablanca
- Dakhla, Western Sahara
- Errachidia
- Fez, Morocco
- Guelmim
- Laayoune
- Marrakesh
- Oujda
- Rabat
- Tangier
References
Also known as Aaiún, Al 'Ayûn, Al Ayûn, Al Uyun, Al-'Ayûn, Al-Ayûn, Al-Uyun, Ayûn, El Aaioun, El Aaiún, El Aauin, El Aiun, El Auin, El-Aaiún, El-Ayoun, La Youne, La'youn, Lâayoun, Laâyoune, Western Sahara, Layoun, Layoune, Leeyun, Leɛyun, العيون.