Ceuta
Ceuta | |
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View of Ceuta Royal Walls Palace of the Assembly | |
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Flag Coat of arms | |
Location of Ceuta in Spain | |
| Coordinates: 35°53′18″N 5°18′56″W / 35.88833°N 5.31556°W | |
| Country | Spain |
| First settled | 1st millennium BC |
| End of Muslim rule | 14 August 1415 |
| Ceded to Spain | 4 August 1578 |
| Autonomy status | 14 March 1995 |
| Founded by | Carthaginians |
| Government | |
| • Type | Autonomous city |
| • Body | Council of Government |
| • Mayor-President | Juan Jesús Vivas (PP) |
| Area | |
• Total | 18.5 km2 (7.1 sq mi) |
| • Land | 18.5 km2 (7.1 sq mi) |
| • Rank | 18th |
| Elevation | 10 m (30 ft) |
| Highest elevation | 349 m (1,145 ft) |
| Population (2024)[1] | |
• Total | 83,179 |
| • Rank | 19th |
| • Density | 4,500/km2 (12,000/sq mi) |
| • Rank | 2nd |
| Demonyms | Ceutan ceutí (es) caballa ("Atlantic mackerel", colloquial)[2][3] |
| GDP | |
| • Total | €1.888 billion (2023) |
| • Per capita | €22,751 (2023) |
| Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
| ISO 3166 code | ES-CE |
| Postal code | 51001–51005 |
| Official language | Spanish |
| Parliament | Assembly of Ceuta |
| Congress | 1 deputy (out of 350) |
| Senate | 2 senators (out of 264) |
| Currency | Euro (€) (EUR) |
| HDI (2022) | 0.860[5] very high · 19th |
| Website | www.ceuta.es |
Ceuta (UK: /ˈsjuːtə/, US: /ˈseɪuːtə/,[6][7] Spanish: [ˈθewta, ˈsewta] ⓘ; Moroccan Arabic: سَبْتَة, romanized: Sabtah) 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. It was a regular municipality belonging to the province of Cádiz prior to the passing of its Statute of Autonomy in March 1995,[8] 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.[9] Its population is predominantly Christian and Muslim, with a small minority of Sephardic Jews and Sindhi Hindus, from Pakistan.[10]
Spanish is the official language, while Darija Arabic is also widely spoken.
- ^ "Annual population census 2021-2024". National Statistics Institute (Spain). 19 December 2024. Retrieved 29 January 2025.
- ^ "Caballas". El Faro de Ceuta (in Spanish). 15 May 2011. Retrieved 22 February 2022.
- ^ caballa | Diccionario de la lengua española (in Spanish) (23.5 ed.). RAE-ASALE. 2021. Retrieved 22 February 2022.
- ^ "Contabilidad Regional de España" (PDF). www.ine.es.
- ^ "Sub-national HDI - Area Database - Global Data Lab". hdi.globaldatalab.org. Retrieved 28 January 2025.
- ^ Wells, John C. (2008). Longman Pronunciation Dictionary (3rd ed.). Longman. ISBN 978-1-4058-8118-0.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.