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Capital: El Aaiún (Laâyoune) , Moroccan-administered; the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic claims Laâyoune but governs mainly from refugee camps near Tindouf, AlgeriaPopulation: ~565,000 in the Moroccan-administered zone (2022 estimate, disputed) plus an estimated 100,000-200,000 Sahrawi refugees in Tindouf, Algeria , no reliable census since Spain's last one in 1970Founded: 1976 (Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic proclaimed, 27 February); still listed by the UN as a non-self-governing territory awaiting decolonizationRegion: AfricaLanguages: arCurrency: Moroccan dirham (MAD) in the Moroccan-administered areas; Algerian dinar in the Sahrawi refugee camps; the Sahrawi peseta is the SADR's official but largely symbolic currency
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