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The Moroccan Western Sahara Wall is an approximately 2,700 km (1,700 mi) long structure, mostly a sand wall (or "berm"), running through Western Sahara and the southwestern portion of Morocco. It separates[1] the Moroccan-occupied and -controlled areas (the Southern Provinces) on the west from the Polisario-controlled areas (Free Zone, nominally Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic) on the east.
According to maps from the United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO)[2] or the UNHCR,[3] the wall extends several kilometers into internationally recognized Mauritanian territory.[4]
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- ^ Deployment of MINURSO Archived 27 October 2007 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Western Sahara Atlas Map – June 2006
- ^ MINURSO