Western Sahara

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Proper noun

Western Sahara

2. A territory and former Spanish colony in North Africa, now mostly occupied by Morocco, which claims ownership over the territory.

   Synonym: (historical) Spanish Sahara

Derived terms

• Western Saharan

 

Translations

a territory in northern Africa

• Afrikaans: Wes-Sahara
• Albanian: Sahara Perëndimore f
• Amharic: ምዕራባዊ ሣህራ (məʿrabawi śahra)
• Arabic: الصَّحْرَاء الْغَرْبِيَّة f (aṣ-ṣaḥrāʔ al-ḡarbiyya)
• Aragonese: Sajara Ozidental m
• Armenian: Արևմտյան Սահարա (hy) (Arewmtyan Sahara)
• Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܣܲܚܵܪܵܐ ܡܲܥܪܒ݂ܵܝܬ݂ܵܐ f (saḥḥārā maˁrḇāyṯā)
• Asturian: Sahara Occidental (ast) m
• Azerbaijani: Qərbi Səhra (az)
• Bashkir: Көнбайыш Сахара (Könbayış Saxara)
• Basque: Mendebaldeko Sahara
• Belarusian: Захо́дняя Саха́ра f (Zaxódnjaja Saxára)
• Bengali: পশ্চিম সাহারা (pościm śahara)
• Breton: Sahara ar C'hornaoueg
• Bulgarian: За́падна Саха́ра f (Západna Sahára)
• Burmese: အနောက်ဆာဟာရ (a.naukhcahara.)
• Catalan: Sàhara Occidental (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 西撒哈拉 (sai¹ saat³ haa¹ laai¹)

  Mandarin: 西撒哈拉 (zh) (Xī Sāhālā)

• Czech: Západní Sahara (cs) f
• Danish: Vestsahara (da) n
• Dutch: Westelijke Sahara (nl) f
• Esperanto: Okcidenta Saharo, Saharo Okcidenta
• Estonian: Lääne-Sahara
• Faroese: Vestursahara f or n
• Finnish: Länsi-Sahara (fi)
• French: Sahara occidental (fr) m
• Georgian: დასავლეთი საჰარა (dasavleti sahara), დასავლეთ საჰარა (dasavlet sahara)
• German: Westsahara (de) f
• Greek: Δυτική Σαχάρα (el) f (Dytikí Sachára)
• Hebrew: סהרה המערבית f (sahara ha-ma'aravít)
• Hindi: पश्चिमी सहारा (hi) m (paścimī sahārā)
• Hungarian: Nyugat-Szahara (hu)
• Icelandic: Vestur-Sahara
• Indonesian: Sahara Barat
• Interlingua: Sahara Occidental
• Italian: Sahara Occidentale m
• Japanese: 西サハラ (ja) (にしサハラ, Nishi Sahara)
• Kazakh: Батыс Сахара (kk) (Batys Saxara)
• Khmer: សាហារ៉ាខាងលិច (saahaaraa khaang lɨc)
• Korean: 서사하라 (ko) (Seosahara)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: Sahraya Rojava

• Kyrgyz: Батыш Сахара (Batış Sahara)
• Lao: ຊາຮາຣາຕາເວັນຕົກ (sā hā rā tā wen tok), ຊາຮາລາຕາເວັນຕົກ (sā hā lā tā wen tok)
• Latvian: Rietumsahāra (lv) f
• Lithuanian: Vakarų Sachara (lt) f
• Macedonian: За́падна Саха́ра f (Západna Sahára)
• Malay: Sahara Barat
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: Баруун Сахар (Baruun Saxar)

• Navajo: Kéyah Sahééwa Eʼeʼaahjí Siʼánígíí
• Norman: Sahara du Vouêt m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Vest-Sahara n

• Pashto: لوېديځه صحارا f (loediźa sahārā)
• Persian:

  Iranian Persian: صَحْرایِ ‬غَرْبی (sahrâ-ye ğarbi)

• Polish: Sahara Zachodnia (pl) f
• Portuguese: Saara Ocidental (pt) m
• Romanian: Sahara Occidentală f
• Russian: За́падная Саха́ра f (Západnaja Saxára)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Западна Сахара f

  Roman: Zapadna Sahara f

• Slovak: Západná Sahara f
• Slovene: Zahódna Sahára (sl) f
• Spanish: Sahara Occidental (es) m
• Swahili: Sahara Magharibi (sw)
• Swedish: Västsahara (sv) n
• Tagalog: Kanluraning Sahara
• Tajik: Саҳрои Ғарбӣ (Sahro-yi Ġarbi)
• Tatar: Көнбатыш Сахра (Könbatış Saxra)
• Thai: ซาฮาราตะวันตก (saa-haa-raa dtà-wan-dtòk)
• Tigrinya: ምዕራብ ሰሃራ (məʿrab sähara)
• Turkish: Batı Sahra (tr)
• Turkmen: Günbatar Sahara
• Ukrainian: За́хідна Саха́ра f (Záxidna Saxára)
• Urdu: مَغْرِبی صَحارا m (maġribī sahārā)
• Uyghur: غەربىي سەھرا (gherbiy sehra)
• Uzbek: Gʻarbiy Sahro
• Vietnamese: Tây Xa-ha-ra
• Volapük: Sahar Vesüdik
• Walloon: Sara Coûtchantrece
• Welsh: Gorllewin Sahara

See also

• Appendix:Countries of the world
• Maghreb, Maghrib
• Morocco
• El Aaiún
• North Africa
• Northwest Africa
• (countries of Africa) countries of Africa; Algeria, Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cabo Verde, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Côte d'Ivoire, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, São Tomé and Príncipe, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Tunisia, Uganda, Western Sahara, Zambia, Zimbabwe ^{(Category: en:Countries in Africa) [edit]}