Editing Geography of Spain (section)

==Borders==
Most of Spain's boundaries are water: the Mediterranean Sea along the east from the French border down to [[Gibraltar]] and the [[Strait of Gibraltar]], and the Atlantic Ocean on the northwest and southwest (in the south as the [[Gulf of Cádiz]] and in the north as the [[Bay of Biscay]]).<ref name=":1">{{cite encyclopedia|title=Spain: a country study|publisher=[[Federal Research Division]], [[Library of Congress]]|location=Washington, D.C.|url=https://www.loc.gov/item/90006127/|last=Clark|first=Robert P.|date=1990|editor-last=Solsten|editor-first=Eric|pages=69–76|oclc=44200005| editor-last2=Meditz|editor-first2=Sandra W.|entry=Geography}} {{PD-notice}}</ref> The Spanish autonomous cities of [[Ceuta]] and [[Melilla]] are Spanish enclaves lying in mainland Africa in territory claimed by Morocco and are located on the coast of the Alboran Sea, with Ceuta at the very mouth of the Strait of Gibraltar, and Melilla closer to the border with Algeria.{{Citation needed|date=August 2021}} The [[Canary Islands]], geographically and geologically part of the [[African continent]], are located in the Atlantic Ocean.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://catalogo.museosdetenerife.org/cdm/singleitem/collection/MACAMONO/id/16/rec/1 |title=La Macaronesia. Consideraciones geológicas, biogeográficas y paleoecológicas |access-date=10 February 2010 |language=Spanish| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151117032309/http://catalogo.museosdetenerife.org/cdm/singleitem/collection/MACAMONO/id/16/rec/1 |archive-date=17 November 2015 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

Spain also shares land boundaries with [[France]] and [[Andorra]] along the [[Pyrenees]] in the northeast, with [[Portugal]] on the west, with the small British colonial Territory of [[Gibraltar]] near the southernmost tip,<ref name=":1" /> and with [[Morocco]] in its autonomous cities of [[Ceuta]] and [[Melilla]], and certain other small but uninhabited enclaves, mostly capes and small isles.{{Fact|date=August 2021}} The affiliation of Gibraltar has continued to be a contentious issue between Spain and [[United Kingdom|Britain]],<ref name=":1" /> and the sovereignty of Spain's enclaves, or ''[[plazas de soberanía]]'', on the Mediterranean coast of [[Morocco]] is disputed by Madrid.{{Fact|date=August 2021}}

Spain also has a small [[exclave]] inside France called [[Llívia]], which is a mountain village in the historical ''[[comarca]]'' of [[La Cerdanya]], forming part of the historical territories of [[Catalonia]].<ref name=":2">{{Cite web |date=June 23, 2022 |title=Livia |url=https://www.britannica.com/place/Llivia |access-date=June 23, 2022 |website=Britannica}}</ref>