Melilla
| Area
- total |
20 km² |
| Population
- Total (2003) - Density |
69 184 3459.2/km² |
| Demonym
- English - Spanish |
--- melillense |
| StatuteAutonomy | March 14, 1995 |
| ISO 3166-2 | ES-ML |
|
Parliamentary representation Congress seats Senate seats |
1 2 |
| President | Juan José Imbroda Ortíz (PP) |
| Ciudad Autónoma de Melilla | |
Melilla, knownArabic as Melilia isSpanish autonomous city oncoasteastern Morocco,North Africa. It isfree port, andprincipal industryfishing. Cross-border commerce (legal or smuggled)SpanishEuropean grantswages areother income sources.
Melilla wasfrontier ofkingdomTremecén andKingdomFez, when Spain conqueredcity1497.
SincefoundationMorocco1640,has issued claims tocity. The Moroccan government claims Ceuta, Melillasome small Spanish islands byAfrican shore (Plazas de Soberanía).
As1994population was 63,670.
ISO 3166-1 reserves EAMelillaCeuta.
See also: Ceuta, Isla Perejil
