North Africa
Morocco
Laâyoune-Sakia El Hamra

Cape Juby

Cape Juby is a cape on the coast of southern , near the border with Western Sahara, directly east of the . Its surrounding area, including the cities of and , is called the Cape Juby Strip, the Tarfaya Strip or the Tekna Zone.
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  • Type: Cape
  • Description: cape
  • Also known as: “Cabo Yubi” and “Cabo Yuby”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Museum.

Museum
Photo: ElWaliElAlaoui, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The is a museum of air mail in , Morocco. Founded in 2004, it is devoted to author and aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, who lived there for two years, from 1927 to 1929, and found there the inspiration for much of his literary work.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Tarfaya.

Photo: Ymblanter, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a coastal Moroccan town, located at the level of Cape Juby, in western , on the Atlantic coast. It is located about 890 km southwest of the capital , and around 100 km from both and , in the far east of the .

Cape Juby

Latitude
27.95373° or 27° 57′ 13″ north
Longitude
-12.91705° or 12° 55′ 1″ west
Open location code
7CV9X33M+F5
Open­Street­Map ID
node 2276152558
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­cape
Geo­Names ID
2544922
Wiki­data ID
Q1538846
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Satellite Map

Discover Cape Juby from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Cape Juby” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “رأس جوبي”
  • Asturian: “Cabu Juby”
  • Basque: “Juby lurmuturra”
  • Catalan: “Cabo Jubi”
  • Catalan: “Cabo Juby”
  • Catalan: “cap Juby”
  • Catalan: “Cap Juby”
  • Catalan: “Cape Juby”
  • Cebuano: “Cap Juby”
  • Chinese: “塔尔法亚地带”
  • Chinese: “朱比角”
  • Czech: “Cabo Juby”
  • Dutch: “Kaap Juby”
  • Esperanto: “Kabo Jubi”
  • French: “cap Juby”
  • French: “Cap Juby”
  • Galician: “Cabo Juby”
  • Galician: “Franxa de Farfaya”
  • German: “Cabo Juby”
  • German: “Kap Juby”
  • Hebrew: “כף ג’ובי”
  • Italian: “Capo Juby”
  • Japanese: “ケープ・ジュビー”
  • Japanese: “ジュビー岬”
  • Lithuanian: “Džubi kyšulys”
  • Lithuanian: “Jubi kyšulys”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kapp Juby”
  • Polish: “Dżubi”
  • Polish: “Juby”
  • Polish: “Ras Dżubi”
  • Polish: “Ras Tarfaja”
  • Portuguese: “Cabo Juby”
  • Russian: “Испанское Южное Марокко”
  • Russian: “Мыс Хуби”
  • Russian: “Сектор Тарфая”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Juby”
  • Spanish: “Cabo Juby”
  • Spanish: “Franja de Tarfaya”
  • Swedish: “Cap Juby”
  • Turkish: “Juby Burnu”
  • Ukrainian: “Сектор Тарфайя”
  • Ukrainian: “Сектор Тарфая”
  • Vietnamese: “Mũi Juby”

Localities in the Area

Explore places such as Tah and Amgriou.

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include TARFAYA and Mackenzie’s Factory.

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Cape Juby”. Photo: NASA, Public domain.