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Tingitan Peninsula

Coordinates: 35°53′25.05″N 5°28′48.14″W / 35.8902917°N 5.4800389°W / 35.8902917; -5.4800389
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Tingitan peninsula on bottom (south)

The Tingitan Peninsula, also known as the Tangier Peninsula, is a small peninsula in northwest Africa, which together with the southernmost part of mainland Spain (Iberian Peninsula), forms the Strait of Gibraltar, the Atlantic Ocean boundary with the Mediterranean Sea. The principal cities are Tangier, Tétouan and Ceuta. Administratively, the peninsula belongs to the Moroccan prefectures of Tanger-Assilah, Fahs-Anjra, M'Diq-Fnideq and Tetouan, and the Spanish autonomous city of Ceuta. Historically it belonged to the province of Mauretania Tingitana.[1]

References

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  1. ^ Robertson, William (1845). Journal of a clergyman during a visit to the Peninsula in the summer and autumn of 1841. W. Blackwood & Sons, [printed by Ballantyne and Hughes]. p. 258. Retrieved 16 February 2013.

35°53′25.05″N 5°28′48.14″W / 35.8902917°N 5.4800389°W / 35.8902917; -5.4800389