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Melilla ( " Maliliyyah ") is a Spanish autonomous city located on the north coast of Africa , sharing a border with Morocco with an area of . Melilla , along with Ceuta , is one of two permanently inhabited Spanish cities in mainland Africa . It was part of Málaga province until ___MASK84___ when the city ' s Statute of Autonomy was passed . Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain , is a sovereign state largely located on the Iberian Peninsula in southwestern Europe , with two large archipelagos , the Balearic Islands in the Mediterranean Sea and the Canary Islands off the North African Atlantic coast , two cities Ceuta and Melilla in the North African mainland and several small islands in the Alboran Sea near the Moroccan coast . Its mainland is bordered to the south and east by the Mediterranean Sea except for a small land boundary with Gibraltar ; to the north and northeast by France , Andorra , and the Bay of Biscay ; and to the west and northwest by Portugal and the Atlantic Ocean . It is the only European country to have a border with an African country ( Morocco ) and its African territory accounts for nearly ___MASK88___ % of its population , mostly in the Canary Islands but also in Ceuta and Melilla . Africa is the world ' s second - largest and second - most - populous continent . At about ___MASK86___ . 3 million km² ( 11 . 7 million square miles ) including adjacent islands , it covers 6 % of Earth ' s total surface area and 20 . 4 % of its total land area . With 1 . 1 billion people as of 2013 , it accounts for about 15 % of the world ' s human population . The continent is surrounded by the Mediterranean Sea to the north , both the Suez Canal and the Red Sea along the Sinai Peninsula to the northeast , the Indian Ocean to the southeast , and the Atlantic Ocean to the west . The continent includes Madagascar and various archipelagos . It contains 54 fully recognized sovereign states ( countries ), nine territories and two " de facto " independent states with limited or no recognition . Ceuta ( assimilated pronunciation , also Arabic :  , " Sabtah ") is an Spanish autonomous city located on the north coast of Africa , sharing a western border with Morocco . Separated from the Iberian peninsula by the Strait of Gibraltar , Ceuta lies along the boundary between the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean . Ceuta , along with the Spanish exclave Melilla , is one of nine populated Spanish territories in Africa and one of two populated territories on mainland Africa . It was part of Cádiz province until ___MASK84___ when the city ' s Statute of Autonomy was passed . Andorra , officially the Principality of Andorra , also called the Principality of the Valleys of Andorra , is a sovereign landlocked microstate in Southwestern Europe , located in the eastern Pyrenees mountains and bordered by Spain and France . Created under a charter in ___MASK70___ , the present principality was formed in ___MASK79___ . It is known as a principality as it is a monarchy headed by two Co - Princes the Roman Catholic Bishop of Urgell in Spain , and the President of France . Authentic Falange ( Spanish : Falange Auténtica , FA ) is a Falangist political party in Spain . FA emerged in 2002 as a split from Falange Española / La Falange . FA claims to represent the heritage of the dissolved Falange Española y de las JONS ( Auténtica ) ( FE - JONS ) . The term ' Authentic ' refers to the positioning of FA as ' authentic ' as opposed to the official Falange under the rule of Francisco Franco . The second National Chief of the Spanish Falange , Manuel Hedilla ( 1902 -- 1970 ) , had opposed the forced merger of FE - JONS with the traditionalists . Hedilla who had refused to join the council of the new party and had tried to mobilize his supporters was arrested on 25 April 1937 , accused of conspiring against Franco , and condemned to death . However , his sentence was commuted to life in prison on the advice of Ramón Serrano Suñer , Franco ' s brother - in - law . FA contested the 2003 municipal election in various parts of the country . It won two seats in El Hoyo de Pinares , Ávila , and one in Ardales , Málaga . Gibraltar is a British Overseas Territory located on the southern end of the Iberian Peninsula . It has an area of and shares its northern border with Spain . The Rock of Gibraltar is the major landmark of the region . At its foot is a densely populated city area , home to over ___MASK86___ , 000 Gibraltarians and other nationalities . The Atlantic Ocean is the second largest of the world ' s oceans with a total area of about . It covers approximately ___MASK39___ percent of the Earth ' s surface and about 29 percent of its water surface area . It separates the " Old World " from the " New World ".