Transportation Western Sahara
Highways: total: 6,200 km paved: 1,350 km unpaved: 4,850 km (1991 est)
Ports and harbors:
Ad Dakhla, Cabo Bojador, Laayoune (El Aaiun)
Airports:
11 (2004 est.)
Airports - with paved runways:
total: 3
2,438 to 3,047 m: 3 (2004 est.)
Airports - with unpaved runways:
total: 8
1,524 to 2,437 m: 1
914 to 1,523 m: 4
under 914 m: 3 (2004 est.)
Transnational Issues Western Sahara
Disputes - international:
Morocco claims and administers Western Sahara, whose sovereignty
remains unresolved - UN-administered cease-fire has remained in
effect since September 1991, administered by the UN Mission for the
Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO), but attempts to hold a
referendum have failed and parties thus far have rejected all
brokered proposals
This page was last updated on 20 October, 2005
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