Everything you need to know about Western Sahara
Explore Western Sahara from Laayoune and the Saguia el Hamra to Dakhla Bay and the Saharan interior. Place settlements, follow waters beyond the territory, discover landscapes and read ten illustrated topics.
Read it, then make it stick
Geography of Western Sahara
A desert coast and seasonal channels
Know the shape of the country
Place eleven settlements in Western Sahara and Tarfaya in neighbouring Morocco. Follow the intermittent Saguia el Hamra, the Sous River in Morocco and the North Atlantic. Zoom out to follow the mapped waters beyond the territory.
Heritage and landscapes of Western Sahara
Essential ยท Coastal wetland
Dakhla Bay
The long bay shelters tidal flats and seagrass beds used by fish and migratory waterbirds. The point marks the bay area, not an entrance.
Explore eight coastal, urban and desert learning locations. Approximate pins do not show control or establish access. Essential marks starting points for learning; Detour adds context. Select a pin to read about a place, then play the map and find them all.
Take Arabic with you
Greetings and politeness
Hello, please, thank you, sorry: the ten openers everything else builds on.
Keep going one country deeper
When you have had your fill of Western Sahara, the countries in white have a guide like this one, and every other has maps of its own.
Africa
- Algeria
- Angola
- Botswana
- Burkina Faso
- Cameroon
- Central African Republic
- Chad
- Cรดte dโIvoire
- Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Djibouti
- Egypt
- Eritrea
- Ethiopia
- Gabon
- Ghana
- Guinea
- Kenya
- Libya
- Madagascar
- Mali
- Mauritania
- Morocco
- Mozambique
- Namibia
- Niger
- Nigeria
- Republic of the Congo
- Rwanda
- Senegal
- Somalia
- Somaliland
- South Africa
- South Sudan
- Sudan
- Tanzania
- Tunisia
- Uganda
- Zambia
- Zimbabwe
Europe
- Albania
- Andorra
- Armenia
- Austria
- Azerbaijan
- Belarus
- Belgium
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Bulgaria
- Croatia
- Cyprus
- Czechia
- Denmark
- Estonia
- Finland
- France
- Georgia
- Germany
- Greece
- Hungary
- Iceland
- Ireland
- Italy
- Kosovo
- Latvia
- Liechtenstein
- Lithuania
- Luxembourg
- Malta
- Moldova
- Monaco
- Montenegro
- Netherlands
- North Macedonia
- Northern Cyprus
- Norway
- Poland
- Portugal
- Romania
- Russia
- San Marino
- Serbia
- Slovakia
- Slovenia
- Spain
- Sweden
- Switzerland
- Tรผrkiye
- Ukraine
- United Kingdom
- Vatican City
Asia
- Afghanistan
- Bahrain
- Bangladesh
- Bhutan
- Brunei
- Cambodia
- China
- India
- Indonesia
- Iran
- Iraq
- Israel
- Japan
- Jordan
- Kazakhstan
- Kuwait
- Kyrgyzstan
- Laos
- Lebanon
- Malaysia
- Maldives
- Mongolia
- Myanmar
- Nepal
- North Korea
- Oman
- Pakistan
- Palestine
- Philippines
- Qatar
- Saudi Arabia
- Singapore
- South Korea
- Sri Lanka
- Syria
- Taiwan
- Tajikistan
- Thailand
- Timor-Leste
- Turkmenistan
- United Arab Emirates
- Uzbekistan
- Vietnam
- Yemen