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Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic
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| Motto: حرية، ديمقراطية، وحدة (Arabic) Libertad, Democracia, Unidad (Spanish) "Freedom, Democracy, Unity" | |
| Anthem: يا بني الصحراء Yā Banī aṣ-Ṣaḥrāʾ "Oh, Sons of the Sahara!" | |
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| Status | State partially recognised by 46 UN member states and South Ossetia |
| Capital and largest city | El Aaiún (de jure) 27°9′N 13°12′W / 27.150°N 13.200°W |
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| Religion | Islam (official) |
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| Government | Unitary one-party semi-presidential republic |
• President | Brahim Ghali |
• Prime Minister | Bouchraya Hammoudi Bayoun |
| Legislature | National Council |
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• Relinquished by Spain | 14 November 1975 |
• Republic declared | 27 February 1976 |
• Sovereignty disputed over Western Sahara with Morocco | Ongoing |
| Area | |
• Total | 266,000 km2 (103,000 sq mi) (claimed) 90,000 km2 (35,000 sq mi) (controlled) (77th) |
• Water (%) | Negligible |
| Population | |
• Estimate | 607,292 (2021 est.) |
| GDP (nominal) | estimate |
• Per capita |  $2,500 (2007 est.)[8] (197th) |
| Currency | Sahrawi peseta (de jure) (EHP) De facto
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| Time zone | UTC+1 (WAT) |
| Date format | dd/mm/yyyy (AD) |
| Driving side | right |
| ISO 3166 code | EH |
| Internet TLD | .eh (reserved) |
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The Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic,[d] also known as the Sahrawi Republic and Western Sahara, is a partially recognized state, recognized by 46 UN member states and South Ossetia, located in the western Maghreb, which claims the non-self-governing territory of Western Sahara, but controls only the easternmost one-fifth of that territory. Between 1884 and 1975, Western Sahara was known as Spanish Sahara, a Spanish colony (later an overseas province). The SADR is one of the two African states in which Spanish is a significant language, the other being Equatorial Guinea.
The SADR was proclaimed by the Polisario Front on 27 February 1976, in Bir Lehlou, Western Sahara. The SADR government calls the territories under its control the Liberated Territories or the Free Zone. Morocco controls and administers the rest of the disputed territory, and calls these lands its Southern Provinces. The claimed capital city of the SADR is El Aaiún (the capital of the territory of Western Sahara). Since the SADR does not control El Aaiún, it has established a temporary capital in Tifariti, although most of the day-to-day administration happens in Rabuni, one of the Sahrawi refugee camps located in Tindouf, Algeria.
The SADR maintains diplomatic relations with 46 United Nations states, and is a full member of the African Union. With a population of about half a million, it is the most sparsely populated in Africa, and the second-most sparsely populated in the world.[10]
- ^ SADR. "Constitution of the SADR" (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 11 November 2007. Retrieved 10 November 2020.
- ^ "الوفد الصحراوي سيحضر لقاء جنيف بإرادة صادقة للتقدم نحو الحل الذي يضمن حق الشعب الصحراوي في تقرير المصير والاستقلال". Sahara Press Service (in Arabic). 29 November 2018. Archived from the original on 25 November 2023.
- ^ János Besenyő; R. Joseph Huddleston; Yahia H. Zoubir (2022). Conflict and Peace in Western Sahara The Role of the UN's Peacekeeping Mission (MINURSO). Taylor & Francis. p. 51. ISBN 978-10-0080733-2.
- ^ Dawn Chatty (2010). Deterritorialized Youth Sahrawi and Afghan Refugees at the Margins of the Middle East. Berghahn Books. p. 114. ISBN 978-1-84545-653-5.
- ^ Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh (2015). South-South Educational Migration, Humanitarianism and Development Views from the Caribbean, North Africa and the Middle East. Routledge. p. 48. ISBN 978-1-135-07667-2.
- ^ Martos, Isabel (2014). Linguistic Policy in the Camps of Sahrawi Refugees. ECAS 2013, 5th European Conference on African Studies. Universidad de Alcalá. Archived from the original on 22 May 2021. Retrieved 19 August 2018.
- ^ "El Español en los Campamentos de Refugiados Saharauis (Tinduf, Algeria)" (PDF). Cvc.cervantes.es. Archived (PDF) from the original on 26 December 2016. Retrieved 20 May 2015.
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
economy.com/western-sahara/indicatorswas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ "Los campamentos de refugiados saharauis" [The Sahrawi refugee camps] (in Spanish). Una mirada al Sáhara Occidental. 26 December 2019. Retrieved 21 October 2023.
La divisa local es el dinar argelino, aunque se puede pagar casi todo en euros. La moneda mínima para hacer compras en los campamentos es el billete de 10€.
[The local currency is the Algerian dinar, although you can pay almost everything in euros. The minimum currency to make purchases in the camps is the €10 bill.] - ^ "Western Sahara Population 2023 (Live)".
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