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The Western Sahara By Yours Truly, Kourtney Contreras
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Geography Landforms<3 Major cities & most known places: Laayoune Ad Dakhla Ausert Guelta Zemmur Semara Mountains: LahraychaLahraycha, At-TalliyaAt-Talliya, Adecmar Adecmar, No rivers or lakes, Water suply comes From north Atlantic Ocean.
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Recreation & outdoor Activities Visiting the Atlantic Ocean is very common. A lot of hiking
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Historical sites! "All the Homeland or Martyrdom" - Polisario slogan above a rock shelter in the Southern Sector of the Free Zone
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The West Sahara’s Flag Black represents death, the green represents life, the white represents peace.
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Summary of location The West Sahara is a BIG desert and there really isn’t much to it besides the fact that its extremely dry.
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Climate & weather conditions Extremely HOT & DRY cold offshore air currents produce fog and heavy dew
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Transportation The western Sahara has No railways! But other than that, they use cars, & buses! & CAMELS.
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FOOODS! LOTS of veggies, & fish
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Natural Hazards! Dust storms !
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Religion & Ethnic Group ISLAM, is the religion Arab, Berber are the ethnic groups
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Imports & exports Imports : dry natural gas coal Exports: coal, rice
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Life Expectancy Life expectancy at birth: total population: 61.13 years male: 58.94 years female: 63.41 years
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FUN facts! (: The countries which Sahara desert encompasses include Algeria, Chad, Egypt, Libya, Morocco, Mauritania, Mali, Niger, Sudan, Tunisia and Western Sahara. The history of the desert dates back to 3 million years ago. It’s also the second biggest desert in the world!
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