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Laayoune [note 1] or El Aaiún [note 2] (Arabic: العيون, al-ʕuyūn, Hassaniyya: [ˈləʕjuːn] ⓘ, lit. ' The Springs ') is the largest city of the disputed territory of Western Sahara, with a population of 271,344 in 2023. [7] The city is de facto under Moroccan administration as occupied territory.
El Aaiun refugee camp (Arabic: مخيم العيون) is one of the Sahrawi refugee camps located in Tindouf province in southwest Algeria. It is located 5 miles (10 km) from Tindouf . According to UNHCR statistics for 2003, the camp had a population of 36,675 Sahrawi refugees . [ 2 ]
The St. Francis of Assisi Cathedral [1] (Spanish: Catedral de San Francisco de Asís de El Aaiún; French: Cathédrale de Saint François d'Assise) or just Spanish Cathedral, is a Roman Catholic church that serves as the cathedral church of the apostolic prefecture of Western Sahara (Praefectura Apostolica de Sahara Occidentali).
The camps are divided into five wilayat (districts) named after towns in Western Sahara; El Aaiun, Awserd, Smara, Dakhla and more recently Cape Bojador (or the daira of Bojador). [5] [6] In addition, there is a smaller satellite camp known as "February 27", surrounding a boarding school for women, and an administrative camp called Rabouni. [7]
Water reservoir at the Seguiet-el-Hamra River Laâyoune Province in Laâyoune-Sakia El Hamra. Laâyoune (Arabic: إقليم العيون) 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.
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.
Bou Craa (also transliterated as Bo Craa, Bu Craa or Boukra) (Arabic: بوكراع, Berber: ⴱⵓⴽⵔⴰⵄ, Spanish: Bucraa) is a town in Western Sahara, south-east of the main city of El Aaiún. It is inhabited almost exclusively by employees of phosphate company Phosboucraa, a subsidiary of Morocco's OCP Group.
Laâyoune-Boujdour-Sakia El Hamra (Arabic: العيون بوجدور الساقية الحمراء) was one of the sixteen regions of Morocco from 1997 to 2015. It was mainly located in the disputed territory of Western Sahara , covered an area of 139,480 square kilometres (53,850 sq mi) and had a population of 301,744 as of the 2004 census. [ 1 ]