Chafarinas Islands
The Chafarinas Islands, also spelled Zafarin, Djaferin or Zafarani, are a group of three Spanish small islets located in the Alboran Sea off the coast of Africa with an aggregate area of 0.525 square kilometres, 45 km to the east of Nador and 3.3 km off the Moroccan town of Ras Kebdana.
- Island
- …lies at an elevation of around 140 metres (450 feet)
- Description: Spanish archipelago
- Also known as“Chafarin Islands”“Iles Chaffarines”“Zafarin Islands”“Zafarin Islas”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Isabel II Island and Iglesia de La Purísima Concepción.
Isabel II Island
Islet
Isabel II Island is the central island of the Chafarinas Islands, in the Mediterranean Sea.
Iglesia de La Purísima Concepción
Church
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Iglesia de La Purísima Concepción is a church.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Ras Kebdana.
Ras Kebdana
Village
Ras Kebdana or Ras El Ma, also known as Qabuyawa, is a town in Nador Province, Oriental, Morocco. Ras Kebdana is situated 5 km south of Chafarinas Islands.
Chafarinas Islands
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Latitude
35.18119° or 35° 10′ 52″ north
Longitude
-2.42962° or 2° 25′ 47″ west
Open location code
8C7V5HJC+F5
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Waray—“Chafarinas Islands” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “الجزر الجعفرية”
- Arabic: “الجزر الجعفريه”
- Arabic: “الجعفرية”
- Arabic: “جزر إشفارن”
- Arabic: “جزر جعفرية”
- Aragonese: “Islas Chafarinas”
- Armenian: “Չաֆարինաս”
- Asturian: “Islles Chafarines”
- Basque: “Chafarinak”
- Belarusian: “Астравы Чафарынас”
- Belarusian: “Чафарынас”
- Breton: “Chafarinas”
- Bulgarian: “Чафарински острови”
- Catalan: “Illes Chafarinas”
- Cebuano: “Islas Chafarinas”
- Chinese: “查法里納斯群島”
- Chinese: “查法里纳斯群岛”
- Chinese: “舍法林群岛”
- Croatian: “Čafarinski otoci”
- Czech: “Chafarinas”
- Dutch: “Islas Chafarinas”
- Dutch: “Khafarinas-eilanden”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جزر تشافاريناس”
- Esperanto: “Ĉafarinoj”
- Estonian: “Chafarinase saared”
- Finnish: “Chafarinassaaret”
- Finnish: “Islas Chafarinas”
- French: “Îles Chafarinas”
- French: “Îles Chafarines”
- French: “Îles chaffarines”
- French: “Îles Jaafarines”
- French: “Îles Zafarines”
- French: “Îles Zaffarines”
- French: “Zaffarines”
- Galician: “Illas Chafarinas”
- German: “Isla del Congreso”
- German: “Isla Isabel II.”
- German: “Islas Chafarinas”
- Greek: “Τσαφαρίνας”
- Hebrew: “איי צ’פרינאס”
- Hungarian: “Chafarinas-szigetek”
- Indonesian: “Islas Chafarinas”
- Indonesian: “Kepulauan Chafarinas”
- Interlingua: “Insulas Chafarinas”
- Italian: “Isole Chafarinas”
- Japanese: “チャファリナス諸島”
- Kazakh: “Çafarïnas”
- Kazakh: “Чафаринас”
- Kazakh: “تشافارىيناس”
- Korean: “차파리나스 제도”
- Luxembourgish: “Chafarinas-Inselen”
- Macedonian: “Чафарински Острови”
- Neapolitan: “Isole Chafarinas”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Islas Chafarinas”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Islas Chafarinas”
- Norwegian: “Islas Chafarinas”
- Polish: “Islas Chafarinas”
- Polish: “Wyspy Chafarinas”
- Portuguese: “Ilhas Chafarinas”
- Romanian: “Insulele Chafarinas”
- Russian: “Чафаринас”
- Serbian: “Čafarinska ostrva”
- Serbian: “Чафаринска острва”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Chafarinas”
- Slovak: “Chafarinas”
- Slovenian: “Islas Chafarinas”
- Spanish: “Isla del Congreso”
- Spanish: “Isla Isabel II”
- Spanish: “Islas Chafarinas”
- Swedish: “Islas Chafarinas”
- Thai: “หมู่เกาะชาฟารีนัส”
- Turkish: “Chafarinas Adaları”
- Ukrainian: “Чафарінас”
- Urdu: “جزائر شفارین”
- Vietnamese: “Islas Chafarinas”
- Waray (Philippines): “Islas Chafarinas”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Tarourt Lalla Soueka and Douar Imessaad.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Isabel II Island Lighthouse and Isla del Congreso.
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