Western Sahara
About Western Sahara
Western Sahara is a United Nations–recognized non-self-governing territory in north-western Africa. It has a surface area of 272,000 square kilometres (105,000 sq mi). Western Sahara is the last African colonial state yet to achieve independence and has been dubbed "Africa's last colony". With an estimated population of around 600,000 inhabitants, it is the most sparsely populated territory in Africa and the second most sparsely populated territory in the world after Greenland, consisting mainly of desert flatlands.
On the show — 3 mentions total
The longest conveyor belt so far is about 100 kilometres, it's about 60 miles, and it's in the Western Sahara. That's phosphate rock in Western Sahara — 2,000 tonnes an hour of phosphate rock moved along that, and it's been mined and now it's going to be refined.
from No Such Thing As An Accidental Stuffed Crust, 2024-08-15 at 00:19:20 · read transcript
Other times Western Sahara came up
Yeah, again, the reason that it can't go faster, presumably you could in theory make it go faster, but if you put the rocks on, they're just going to fly off. Yeah. How are you going to collect your sushi off that belt when you're sitting down for a meal? Yeah. That sushi's breaking your teeth. I think the longest one so far is about 100 kilometers, it's about 60 miles and it's in the Western Sahara. Controversial Andy. Ooh great. Can I just say, I always thought that was the longest conveyor belt. Yeah.
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