Western Sahara

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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 only African colonial territory yet to complete its process of decolonization 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. Historically, the territory of present-day Western Sahara maintained political, religious, and commercial connections with the dynasties that ruled Morocco. The Almoravids, who emerged from Saharan Sanhaja Berber confederations, established an empire in the 11th century extending across much of the western Maghreb and parts of the Iberian Peninsula. From the 16th century, the rise of the Moroccan Saadi dynasty strengthened Moroccan influence in the Saharan regions. Under the...

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