{"id":368728,"date":"2026-08-01T19:06:23","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T13:36:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=368728"},"modified":"2026-08-01T19:06:23","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T13:36:23","slug":"ceuta-and-melilla","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/ceuta-and-melilla\/","title":{"rendered":"Ceuta and Melilla"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"content-box-green\">\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong> Thousands of migrants who risked their lives to enter Spain&#8217;s North African enclave of Ceuta from Morocco turned back almost as quickly as they arrived.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h2 class=\"red-h2-box\">About Ceuta<\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_368733\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-368733\" style=\"width: 425px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-368733\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Source-Britannica.jpg?resize=425%2C344&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Ceuta\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Source-Britannica.jpg?resize=300%2C243&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Source-Britannica.jpg?w=653&amp;ssl=1 653w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 425px) 100vw, 425px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-368733\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source &#8211; Britannica<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Location:<\/strong> <strong>Ceuta<\/strong> is a <strong>small autonomous Spanish city<\/strong> and <strong>exclave<\/strong> located on the <strong>northern coast of Africa, bordered directly by Morocco<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>It forms the <strong>European Union\u2019s only shared land border<\/strong> with <strong>mainland Africa,<\/strong> along with the <strong>nearby city of Melilla.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It spans roughly <strong>19 sq. km. at the Mediterranean entrance<\/strong> to the <strong>Strait of Gibraltar.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Governance:<\/strong> Administered as an <strong>autonomous city of Spain<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Border Barrier:<\/strong> The city is <strong>separated from Morocco<\/strong> by a heavily secured <strong>double fence<\/strong> equipped with <strong>barbed wire<\/strong> and modern <strong>detection systems.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: Thousands of migrants who risked their lives to enter Spain&#8217;s North African enclave of Ceuta from Morocco turned back almost as quickly as they arrived. About Ceuta Location: Ceuta is a small autonomous Spanish city and exclave located on the northern coast of Africa, bordered directly by Morocco. It forms the European Union\u2019s only&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/ceuta-and-melilla\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ceuta and Melilla<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10393,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,12039,11211],"tags":[11872],"class_list":["post-368728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-knolls","category-places-in-news","tag-9pm-daily-factly","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10393"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=368728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368728\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}