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Key facts
- Location
- Mediterranean Sea
- Major islands
- Isla del Congreso , Isla Isabel II , Isla del Rey
- Area
- 52.5 ha (130 acres)
- Highest point
- 137 m
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- disputed territory
- Has part
- Isla del Rey
- Country
- Spain
- Located in
- Melilla
- Continent
- Africa
- Area
- 0.525
- Elevation
- 137
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00
- Body of water
- Alboran Sea
- Image
- Chafarinas desde el cabo de Agua (3).jpg
Show 4 more facts
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
- Commons category
- Chafarinas Islands
- topic's main category
- Category:Chafarinas Islands
- territory claimed by
- Morocco
Sources (2)
via Wikidata · CC0
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Encyclopedic overview
Spain's Plazas de soberanía in North Africa. The Islas Chafarinas are on the right.
The Chafarinas Islands, also spelled Zafarin, Djaferin or Zafarani, are a group of three Spanish small islets located in the Alboran Sea off the coast of Africa with an aggregate area of 0.525 square kilometres (0.203 sq mi), 45 km (28.0 mi) to the east of Nador and 3.3 km (2.1 mi) off the Moroccan town of Ras Kebdana. They are uninhabited except for a garrison of the Spanish Army, though there was also a civil population roughly between the mid-19th and mid-20th centuries.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Chafarinas Islands” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.