Western+Sahara

Overview I have learned a lot about the country Western Sahara including the music, population, social conflict ect. Western Sahara is a large country located on the border of Africa where it meets the Atlantic Ocean and in in the Sahara dessert, where it got it's name.the people therelike mostly the same things we like here like music andsome other stuff.

-Aaron

Statistics 3.4/sq mi ||
 * ~ [|Population] ||
 * - || July 2007 estimate || 382,617 ([|167th]) ||
 * - || [|Density] || 1.3/km2 ([|238th])



Statistics for Western Sahara
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 * || **Area & Population** ||  ||
 * Total Land Area (‘000 ha) 1999 || 26,600 ||
 * Total Population ('000) 1999 || 284 ||
 * Population Density (population/sq km) 1999 || 1.1 ||
 * Population Growth Rate (%) 1995-2000 || 3.4 ||
 * Rural Population (%) 1999 || 4.9 ||
 * **Economic Indicators** ||  ||
 * GDP per capita (US$) 1997 || n/a ||
 * Annual growth rate (%) 1997 || n/a ||
 * **Forest Stats** ||  ||
 * Total Forest Area ('000 ha) 2000 || 152 ||
 * Forest area (% of total land area) 2000 || 0.6 ||
 * Forest Area per capita (ha) 2000 || 0.5 ||
 * Forest Plantations ('000 ha) 2000 || - ||
 * Forest Change ('000 ha) 1990-2000 || n.s. ||
 * Forest Area Annual rate of change (%) 1990-2000 || n.s ||

Geography 103,000 [|sq mi] || It is one of the [|most sparsely populated territories in the world], mainly consisting of [|desert] flatlands
 * ~ [|Area] ||
 * - || Total || [|266,000 km2] ([|77th])
 * - || [|Water] ([|%]) || negligible ||

History evidence of trade between the Western Sahara and Europe by the 4th cent. B.C. Portuguese navigators reached Cape Bojador on the northern coast of present-day Western Sahara in 1434

Economy: Western Sahara mostly depends on pasoral nomadism, fishing, and phosphate mingin as the principal sources of income for the population there are very few recources and it is lacking sufficient rainfall. Much of the food that that the western saharans need must be imported.

Western Sahara is currently administered by the Kingdom of Morocco



Government Westerns Sahara's government controlls all the trade and other economic activities

Religion One of the main religions of Western Sahara pre-Islamic Berber

Culture The major ethnic group of the Western Sahara are the [|Sahrawis], a [|nomadic] or [|Bedouin] tribal or ethnic group speaking the [|Hassānīya] dialect of [|Arabic], also spoken in much of [|Mauritania].

Social Problems

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Other Sahrawi music shares much in common with neighbouring musical traditions such as those of Mauritania and southern Morocan. The tbal is the basic instrument of percussion, though the traditional tidinit has largely been replaced by electric guitar=====

Even-toed ungulates
[|Cuvier's gazelle] [|Addra gazelle] [|Dorcas gazelle] [|Sahara oryx] [|Addax] [|Aoudad]

Carnivores
[|Wild cat] [|Striped hyaena] [|Mediterranean monk seal] [|African lion] [|Honey badger] [|Saharan striped polecat] [|Cheetah] [|Asiatic jackal]

Dolphins, porpoises, and whales
[|Pygmy killer whale] [|Pygmy sperm whale] [|Fraser's dolphin] [|Blainville's beaked whale] [|Killer whale] [|Common porpoise] [|Atlantic hump-backed dolphin] [|Atlantic spotted dolphin] [|Rough-toothed dolphin]

Bats
[|Lesser mouse-tailed bat] [|Greater mouse-tailed bat]

Hares, pikas, and rabbits
[|Cape hare]

Rodents
[|Lesser egyptian gerbil] [|Pygmy gerbil] [|Libyan jird] [|Fat-tailed gerbil] [|Barbary ground squirrel]