Moroccan-occupied Western Sahara
The Southern Provinces or Moroccan Sahara are the terms used by the Politics of Morocco, Moroccan government to refer to the Military occupation, occupied territory of Western Sahara. These designations encompass the entirety of Western Sahara, which spans three of Morocco's regions of Morocco, 12 top-level administrative regions. The term "Southern Provinces" is frequently used on Moroccan state media, state television (e.g. weather forecasts, news maps, and official statements) and in mass media while the nomenclature associated with the Polisario Front and the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic, Sahrawi state is censored and occasionally penalized. Background Western Sahara was formerly a Spanish colony known as the Spanish Sahara. In the 1970s, Spain faced mounting pressure from Morocco to relinquish the territory, culminating in the Green March, a large-scale demonstration organized by the Moroccan government on November 6, 1975 in order to compel Spain to transfer Western S ...
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