Western Sahara

Western Sahara is a United Nations–recognized non-self-governing territory in north-western Africa. It has a surface area of 272,000 square kilometres (105,000 sq mi). Western Sahara is the last African colonial state yet to achieve independence and has been dubbed "Africa's last colony". With an estimated population of around 600,000 inhabitants, it is the most sparsely populated territory in Africa and the second most sparsely populated territory in the world after Greenland, consisting mainly of desert flatlands. Francoist Spain previously colonized the territory as the Spanish Sahara until 1975, when the Spanish transition to democracy took effect. In 1976, when Spain attempted to transfer its administration to Morocco and Mauritania while ignoring a verdict of the International Court of Justice that.