Mijek
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Mijek (also transliterated "Mijik", "Miyek" or "Miyec"; ) is a small town in the Río de Oro region of Western Sahara. It is located east of the berm, in the Liberated Territories (controlled by the Polisario Front and administered by the Sahrawi Republic), 80 km north of the Mauritanian town of Zouérat and 250 km. east of Dakhla. It has a hospital, and reportedly a school was opened during the 2012–2013 academic year. It is the head of the 3rd military region of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic.
Key facts
- Settlement.official_name
- Mijek
- Settlement.native_name_lang
- ar
- Settlement.native_name
- ميجكMiyek
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Municipality and town
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Western Sahara#Africa
- Settlement.pushpin_label_position
- bottom
- Settlement.pushpin_mapsize
- 300
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Location in Western Sahara
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Non-self-governing territory
- Settlement.subdivision_name
- Western Sahara
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- Claimed by
- Settlement.subdivision_type3
- Controlled by
- Settlement.government_type
- Municipality
- Settlement.area_total_sq_mi
- 8.33
- Settlement.area_total_km2
- 21.58
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 2014
- Settlement.population_total
- 519
- Settlement.population_density_sq_mi
- auto
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- twinned administrative body
- Coslada
- native label
- Mijek
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Mijek (also transliterated "Mijik", "Miyek" or "Miyec"; ) is a small town in the Río de Oro region of Western Sahara. It is located east of the berm, in the Liberated Territories (controlled by the Polisario Front and administered by the Sahrawi Republic), 80 km north of the Mauritanian town of Zouérat and 250 km. east of Dakhla. It has a hospital, and reportedly a school was opened during the 2012–2013 academic year. It is the head of the 3rd military region of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic.
==History== The surroundings were the scene of several battles between Sahrawi tribes and the French Army (Battle of Teniamun in late 1931, Battle of Miyec in early 1932).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Mijek” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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