Ceuta

Ceuta
سَبْتَة
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Palace of the Assembly
Anthem: Ceuta, mi ciudad querida
"Ceuta, my beloved city"
Map
Location of Ceuta
Coordinates: 35°53′18″N 5°18′56″W / 35.88833°N 5.31556°W / 35.88833; -5.31556
Country Spain
First settled1st millennium BC
End of Muslim rule14 August 1415
Ceded to Spain/Iberian Union4 August 1578
Autonomy status14 March 1995
Founded byCarthaginians
Government
 • TypeAutonomous city
 • BodyCouncil of Government
 • Mayor-PresidentJuan Jesús Vivas (PP)
Area
 • Total18.5 km2 (7.1 sq mi)
 • Land18.5 km2 (7.1 sq mi)
Elevation
10 m (30 ft)
Highest elevation
349 m (1,145 ft)
Population
 (2018)[1]
 • Total85,144
 • Density4,600/km2 (12,000/sq mi)
DemonymsCeutan
ceutí (es)
caballa ("Atlantic mackerel", colloquial)[2][3]
GDP
 • Total€1.907 billion (2022)
 • Per capita€23,073 (2022)
Time zoneUTC+1 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+2 (CEST)
ISO 3166 code
ES-CE
Postal code
51001–51005
Official languageSpanish
ParliamentAssembly of Ceuta
Congress1 deputy (out of 350)
Senate2 senators (out of 264)
CurrencyEuro () (EUR)
Websitewww.ceuta.es

Ceuta (UK: /ˈsjtə/, US: /ˈstə/,[5][6] Spanish: [ˈsewta, θewta]; Arabic: سَبْتَة, romanizedSabtah) is an autonomous city of Spain on the North African coast.

Bordered by Morocco, it lies along the boundary between the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean. Ceuta is one of the special member state territories of the European Union and it is one of several Spanish territories in Africa, along with Melilla and the Canary Islands, one of only a few that are permanently inhabited by a civilian population. It was a regular municipality belonging to the province of Cádiz prior to the passing of its Statute of Autonomy in March 1995,[7] as provided by the Spanish Constitution, henceforth becoming an autonomous city.

Ceuta, like Melilla and the Canary Islands, was classified as a free port before Spain joined the European Union.[8] Its population is predominantly Christian and Muslim, with a small minority of Sephardic Jews and Sindhi Hindus, from Pakistan.[9]

Spanish is the official language. Spanish and Darija Arabic are the two main spoken languages.

  1. ^ Municipal Register of Spain 2018. National Statistics Institute.
  2. ^ "Caballas". El Faro de Ceuta (in Spanish). 15 May 2011. Retrieved 22 February 2022.
  3. ^ caballa | Diccionario de la lengua española (in Spanish) (23.5 ed.). RAE-ASALE. 2021. Retrieved 22 February 2022.
  4. ^ "Contabilidad Regional de España" (PDF). www.ine.es.
  5. ^ Wells, John C. (2008). Longman Pronunciation Dictionary (3rd ed.). Longman. ISBN 978-1-4058-8118-0.
  6. ^ Jones, Daniel (2011). Roach, Peter; Setter, Jane; Esling, John (eds.). Cambridge English Pronouncing Dictionary (18th ed.). Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-15255-6.
  7. ^ Jefatura del Estado (14 March 1995), Ley Orgánica 1/1995, de 13 de marzo, de Estatuto de Autonomía de Ceuta, pp. 8055–8061, retrieved 19 August 2023
  8. ^ Ferrer-Gallardo, Xavier (2008). "The Spanish–Moroccan border complex: Processes of geopolitical, functional and symbolic rebordering". Political Geography. 27 (3): 301–321. doi:10.1016/j.polgeo.2007.12.004.
  9. ^ Gervilla Zapata, María; Vashdev Lalwani, Sony (2011). "La comunidad hindú ceutí y u integración en la cultura occidental". Actas del I Congreso Internacional sobre Migraciones en Andalucía (PDF). Granada: Instituto de Migraciones. p. 1865. ISBN 978-84-921390-3-3.

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