Ras Nouadhibou (Arabic: رأس نواذيبو‎) is a 40-mile peninsula or headland called also known as Cap Blanc (French), or Cabo Blanco (Spanish). Arabic (ar الْعَرَبيّة (informally ar عَرَبيْ) in terms of the number of speakers is the largest living member of the Semitic language A peninsula is a piece of land that is nearly surrounded by Water but connected to Mainland via an Isthmus. Headlands and bays are two related features of the coastal environment French ( français,) is a Romance language spoken around the world by 118 million people as a native language and by about 180 to 260 million people

History

1958 map, showing what was then called Cap Blanc, divided between Spain and France

The Spanish originally claimed the land from 20° 51' N (near Cap Blanc) to 26° 8' N (near Cape Bojador) in 1885. Spanish Sahara was the name used for the modern territory of Western Sahara when it was ruled as a territory by Spain between 1884 and 1975 French West Africa ( Afrique occidentale française, AOF) was a Federation of eight French colonial territories in Africa: Cape Bojador or Cape Boujdour ( رأس بوجادور, pronounced Ra's Boujador in Arabic is a headland on the northern This would be a protectorate governed from the Canary Islands in 1887. The Canary Islands ( English pronunciation kəˈnæriː ˈaɪləndz Spanish: Islas Canarias, ˈizlas kaˈnarjas are a Spanish France would later claim the Western Sahara. This article is about the country For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic France topics. The boundary was settled in a joint French-Spanish convention in 1900 to divide the area between Spanish Sahara and French West Africa. Spanish Sahara was the name used for the modern territory of Western Sahara when it was ruled as a territory by Spain between 1884 and 1975 French West Africa ( Afrique occidentale française, AOF) was a Federation of eight French colonial territories in Africa: ^[1]

Location

This thin stretch of land is divided between Mauritania and Western Sahara. Mauritania (موريتانيا Mūrītāniyā officially the Islamic Republic of Mauritania, is a country Western Sahara ( Arabic: الصحراء الغربية; transliterated: as-Ṣaḥrā' al-Gharbīyah; Sahara Occidental is a territory On the western side, lies the Sahrawi town of Lagouira; on the eastern side, less than a mile from the border, lies Mauritania's Nouadhibou (formerly Port Etienne). Lagouira ( La Agüera or La Güera) or La Gouera is a town on the Atlantic coast at the southern tip of Western Sahara, on the Nouadhibou (نواذيبو formerly Port-Étienne; pop ca 90000 is the second largest city in Mauritania and serves as the country's commercial center

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