Western Sahara

Western Sahara is an area on the west coast of . A former Spanish colony, its governance is disputed between and the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic.
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include El Aaiún and Ad Dakhla.
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El Aaiun is the biggest city in Western Sahara, in its northern part.
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Dakhla is a city in the disputed territory…
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is a town in Western Sahara.

Destinations to Discover

Explore places such as Boujdour and Guerguerat.
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Cape Bojador is a headland on the west coast…
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is the southernmost settlement in the Moroccan-controlled part of Western Sahara.
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Akhfennir is a small town in , in the region of .
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Western Sahara

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Latitude of center
24.8° or 24° 48′ north
Longitude of center
-13° or 13° west
Open­Street­Map ID
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Open­Street­Map feature
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Geo­Names ID
2461445
Wiki­data ID
Q6250

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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Zulu—“Western Sahara” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Sahara Barat”
  • Afrikaans: “Wes-Sahara”
  • Albanian: “Sahara Perëndimore”
  • Albanian: “Saharaja Perëndimore”
  • Algerian Arabic: “الصحراء الغربية”
  • Amharic: “ምዕራባዊ ሣህራ”
  • Amharic: “ምዕራባዊ ሳህራ”
  • Amis: “West sahara”
  • Angika: “पश्चिमी सहारा”
  • Arabic: “الأقاليم الجنوبية”
  • Arabic: “الصحراء الإسبانية”
  • Arabic: “الصحراء الغربية (المغرب)”
  • Arabic: “الصحراء الغربية”
  • Arabic: “الصحراء المغربية”
  • Arabic: “لصحراء الغربية”
  • Aragonese: “Sahara Occidental”
  • Armenian: “Արևմտյան Սահարա”
  • Arpitan: “Sahara occidentâl”
  • Assamese: “পশ্চিম চাহাৰা”
  • Assamese: “পশ্চিমীয় ছাহাৰা”
  • Asturian: “El Sáḥara Occidental”
  • Asturian: “Sáḥara Occidental”
  • Atayal: “West sahara”
  • Azerbaijani: “Qərbi Sahara”
  • Azerbaijani: “Qərbi Saxara”
  • Bashkir: “Көнбайыш Сахара”
  • Basque: “Mendebaldeko Sahara”
  • Bavarian: “Westsahara”
  • Belarusian: “Гішпанская Сахара”
  • Belarusian: “Заходняя Сахара”
  • Bengali: “পশ্চিম সাহারা”
  • Bhojpuri: “पच्छिमी सहारा”
  • Bishnupriya: “ৱেস্টার্ন সাহারা”
  • Bosnian: “Zapadna Sahara”
  • Breton: “Sahara ar C’hornôg”
  • Bulgarian: “Западна Сахара”
  • Burmese: “အနောက် ဆာဟာရ”
  • Catalan: “República Àrab Saharauí Democràtica”
  • Catalan: “Sàhara Occidental”
  • Cebuano: “Kasadpang Sahara”
  • Cebuano: “Río de Oro”
  • Cebuano: “Western Sahara”
  • Central Bikol: “Sulnupan na Sahara”
  • Central Kurdish: “سەحرای ڕۆژاوا”
  • Chechen: “Малхбузен Саьхьара”
  • Chechen: “Сахара Iарбойн Халкъа куьйгаллийца йолу Пачхьалкх”
  • Chinese: “西撒哈拉”
  • Cornish: “Sahara West”
  • Corsican: “Sahara Occidentale”
  • Corsican: “Sahara Uccidentale”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Ğarbiy Sahara”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Ğarbiy Sahra”
  • Croatian: “Zapadna Sahara”
  • Czech: “Západní Sahara”
  • Danish: “Vestsahara”
  • Dhivehi: “ހުޅަނގު ސަހަރާ”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Sehraya Rocawani”
  • Dotyali: “पश्चिमी सहारा”
  • Dutch: “Westelijke Sahara”
  • Dzongkha: “ནུབ་ཕྱོགས་ ས་ཧཱ་ར”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “الصحرا الغربيه”
  • Esperanto: “Okcidenta Saharo”
  • Estonian: “Lääne-Sahara”
  • Ewe: “Ɣetoɖoƒe Sahara nutome”
  • Ewe: “Yetoɖoƒe Sahara”
  • Extremaduran: “Sáhara Ociental”
  • Faroese: “Vestursahara”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Western Sahara”
  • Finnish: “Länsi-Sahara”
  • French: “Sahara de l’Ouest”
  • French: “Sahara marocain”
  • French: “Sahara Occidental”
  • Gagauz: “Günbatısı Sahara”
  • Galician: “O Sáhara Occidental”
  • Galician: “Sáhara Occidental”
  • Georgian: “დასავლეთ საჰარა”
  • Georgian: “დასავლეთი საჰარა”
  • German: “Spanisch-Sahara”
  • German: “Westsahara”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Spanish Sahara”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “West Sahara”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Western Sahara”
  • Greek: “Δυτική Σαχάρα”
  • Greek: “Λαοκρατική Αραβική Δημοκρατία της Σαχάρας”
  • Guarani: “Kuarahyreike Saára”
  • Gujarati: “પશ્ચિમી સહારા”
  • Gujarati: “વેસ્ટર્ન સહારા”
  • Haitian: “Sahara oksidantal”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Sî Sahara”
  • Hausa: “Yammacin Sahara”
  • Hawaiian: “Sahara Komohana”
  • Hebrew: “סהרה המערבית”
  • Hindi: “पश्चिमी सहारा”
  • Hungarian: “Nyugat-Szahara”
  • Hungarian: “Szaharai Arab Demokratikus Köztársaság”
  • Icelandic: “Vestur-Sahara”
  • Ido: “Ocidentala Sahara”
  • Ido: “Westala Sahara”
  • Igbo: “Ọdịda Anyanwụ Sahara”
  • Iloko: “Akinlaud a Sahara”
  • Indonesian: “Sahara Barat”
  • Indonesian: “Sahara Spanyol”
  • Interlingua: “Sahara Occidental”
  • Interlingue: “West-Sahara”
  • Irish: “An Sahára Thiar”
  • Irish: “Sahára Thiar”
  • Italian: “Sahara Occidentale”
  • Italian: “territorio nord-occidentale dell’Africa”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Westan Sa’aara”
  • Japanese: “西サハラ”
  • Japanese: “西サハラ地域”
  • Japanese: “西サハラ地方”
  • Javanese: “Sahara Kulon”
  • Jèrriais: “Sahara du Vouêt”
  • Jèrriais: “Sahara occidental”
  • Kabiyè: “Sahara Wɩsɩ ɖɩɖʊyɛ”
  • Kabyle: “Aneẓruf Utrim”
  • Kalaallisut: “Sahara Killiit”
  • Kannada: “ಪಶ್ಚಿಮ ಸಹಾರಾ”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Batıs Saxara”
  • Kashmiri: “مشرِقی سَہارا”
  • Kashmiri: “مغربی صحارا”
  • Kashubian: “Zôpadnô Sahara”
  • Kazakh: “Батыс Сахара”
  • Khmer: “សាហារ៉ាខាងលិច”
  • Kirghiz: “Батыш Сахара”
  • Kongo: “Repubilika ya Balabu ya Saharawi ya Dimokalasi”
  • Kongo: “Sahara ya Lumonso”
  • Korean: “서사하라”
  • Kotava: “Taltefa Saxara”
  • Kurdish: “Sahraya Rojava”
  • Ladino: “Sahara Oksidental”
  • Lao: “ສະຫາຣາພາກໃຕ້”
  • Lao: “ຊາຮາຣາຕາເວັນຕົກ”
  • Latin: “Sahara Occidentalis”
  • Latvian: “Rietumsahāra”
  • Ligurian: “Sahara Oççidentâ”
  • Limburgan: “Westeleke Sahara”
  • Lingala: “Sahara ya Limbɛ”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Sahara Ueste”
  • Lithuanian: “Vakarų Sachara”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Pódwjacorna Sahara”
  • Luxembourgish: “Westsahara”
  • Macedonian: “Западна Сахара”
  • Malagasy: “Sahara Andrefana”
  • Malay: “Sahara Barat”
  • Malayalam: “പശ്ചിമ സഹാറ”
  • Maltese: “is-Saħara tal-Punent”
  • Maltese: “Saħara tal-Punent”
  • Maori: “Hahāra ki te Hauāuru”
  • Marathi: “पश्चिम सहारा”
  • Mazanderani: “صحرا”
  • Mazanderani: “عربی صحرا”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Să̤ Sahara”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Sai Sahara”
  • Mingrelian: “ბჟადალი საჰარა”
  • Moksha: “Шиньмадомаширень Сахара”
  • Mongolian: “Баруун Сахар”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “الصحرا الغربية”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “الصحرا المغربية”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “الصحرا لمغريبية لغربية”
  • Navajo: “Kéyah Sahééwa Eʼeʼaahjí Siʼánígíí”
  • Nepali: “पश्चिमी साहारा”
  • Northern Luri: “صأحرا أفتونئشین”
  • Northern Sami: “Oarje-Sahára”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Vest-Sahara”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Vest-Sahara”
  • Norwegian: “Vest-Sahara”
  • Novial: “Westi Sahara”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Sahara Occidental”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Sahara Occidentau”
  • Oriya: “ପଶ୍ଚିମ ସାହାରା”
  • Oromo: “Sahaaraa Dhihaa”
  • Ossetian: “Ныгуылæн Сахарæ”
  • Pampanga: “Albugang Sahara”
  • Pampanga: “Sahara Occidental”
  • Pampanga: “Sahara Oksidental”
  • Panjabi: “ਪੱਛਮੀ ਸਹਾਰਾ”
  • Pedi: “Western Sahara”
  • Persian: “صحرای غربی”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Westen Sahara”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Western Sahara”
  • Polish: “Sahara Zachodnia”
  • Portuguese: “Saara Ocidental”
  • Portuguese: “Sara Ocidental”
  • Pushto: “لويديځ صحارا”
  • Pushto: “لوېديځه سحارا”
  • Quechua: “Kunti Sahara”
  • Quechua: “Sahara Occidental”
  • Romanian: “Sahara de Vest”
  • Romanian: “Sahara Occidentală”
  • Romansh: “Sahara Occidentala”
  • Russian: “Вади-Захаб”
  • Russian: “Западная Сахара”
  • Russian: “Золотая речка”
  • Russian: “Испанская Сахара”
  • Russian: “Красный ручей”
  • Russian: “Рио-де-Оро”
  • Russian: “Сегиет-эль-Хамра”
  • Sakizaya: “West sahara”
  • Santali: “ᱯᱟᱪᱮ ᱥᱟᱦᱟᱨᱟ”
  • Sardinian: “Sahara Otzidentale”
  • Scots: “Wast Sahara”
  • Scots: “Wastren Sahara”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Sathara an Iar”
  • Serbian: “Западна Сахара”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “EH”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Zapadna Sahara”
  • Shan: “သႃႇႁႃႇရႃႇ ပွတ်းဝၼ်းတူၵ်း”
  • Sicilian: “Sahara Uccidintali”
  • Silesian: “Sahrawijŏ”
  • Sindhi: “اولهه صحارا”
  • Sindhi: “مغربي صحارا”
  • Sinhala: “බටහිර සහරා”
  • Sinhala: “බටහිර සහරාව”
  • Slovak: “Západná Sahara”
  • Slovenian: “Zahodna Sahara”
  • Somali: “Saxaraha Galbeed”
  • South Azerbaijani: “غربی صحرا”
  • Southern Sotho: “Western Sahara”
  • Spanish: “Province of Sahara”
  • Spanish: “Provincia del Sáhara Español”
  • Spanish: “Provincia del Sáhara”
  • Spanish: “República Árabe Saharaui Democrática”
  • Spanish: “Sáhara Occidental”
  • Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⵜⴰⵏⵣⵔⵓⴼⵜ ⵜⴰⵎⵖⵔⵉⴱⵉⵜ”
  • Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⵜⴰⵏⵣⵔⵓⴼⵜ ⵜⵓⵜⵔⵉⵎⵜ”
  • Sundanese: “Sahara Kulon”
  • Swahili: “Sahara Magharibi”
  • Swahili: “Sahara ya Magharibi”
  • Swedish: “Västsahara”
  • Swiss German: “Westsahara”
  • Tagalog: “Kanluraning Sahara”
  • Tajik: “Саҳрои Ғарбӣ”
  • Tamil: “மேற்கு சகாரா”
  • Tamil: “மேற்கு சஹாரா”
  • Taroko: “Western Sahara”
  • Tatar: “Көнбатыш Сахара”
  • Telugu: “పడమటి సహారా”
  • Telugu: “పశ్చిమ సహారా”
  • Telugu: “వెస్టర్న్ సహారా”
  • Thai: “ซาฮาราตะวันตก”
  • Thai: “เวสเทิร์นสะฮารา”
  • Thai: “สะฮาราตะวันตก”
  • Tibetan: “ནུབ་ས་ཧ་ར།”
  • Tigrinya: “ምዕራባዊ ሳህራ”
  • Tonga (Tonga Islands): “Sahala fakahihifo”
  • Tsonga: “Western Sahara”
  • Tumbuka: “Western Sahara”
  • Tunisian Arabic: “الصحرا الغربية”
  • Turkish: “Batı Sahra”
  • Turkmen: “Günbatar Sahara”
  • Tyap: “Jenshyung Sa̱hara”
  • Tyap: “Kwa̱imam Sa̱hara”
  • Tyap: “Sa̱hara Jenshyung”
  • Tyap: “Sa̱hara Kwa̱imam”
  • Tyap: “Sa̱hara Si̱pen”
  • Uighur: “غەربىي ساخارا”
  • Uighur: “غەربىي سەھرا”
  • Ukrainian: “Західна Сахара”
  • Ukrainian: “ЗС”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Zapadna Sahara”
  • Urdu: “مغربی صحارا”
  • Uzbek: “G‘arbiy Sahroi Kabir”
  • Vietnamese: “Tây Sahara”
  • Volapük: “Vesüda-Saharän”
  • Walloon: “Sara coûtchantrece”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Katundan Sahara”
  • Welsh: “Gorllewin Sahara”
  • Western Frisian: “Westelijke Sahara”
  • Western Frisian: “Westlike Sahara”
  • Western Mari: “Вадывел Сахара”
  • Western Panjabi: “لہندا صحرا”
  • Wolof: “Sahara gu Sowwu”
  • Wu Chinese: “西撒哈拉”
  • Yakut: “Арҕаа Саhаара”
  • Yakut: “Арҕаа Сахаара”
  • Yoruba: “Apáìwọ̀orùn Sàhárà”
  • Yoruba: “Ìwọ̀òòrùn Sàhárà”
  • Yue Chinese: “西撒哈拉”
  • Zeeuws: “Westelijke Sahara”
  • Zulu: “i-Western Sahara”
  • Zulu: “ISahara lasentshonalanga”
  • “ESH”
  • “ma Salawi”

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