Gibraltar

Gibraltar , Spanish:  is a bordered to the north by Spain. The landscape is dominated by the Rock of Gibraltar, at the foot of which is a densely populated town area, home to over 32,000 people, primarily Gibraltarians.

In 1704, Anglo-Dutch forces choke point maintains strategically important, with half the world's seaborne trade passing through it. Gibraltar's economy is based largely on tourism, online gambling, financial services, as alive as bunkering.

The sovereignty of Gibraltar is a module of contention in Anglo-Spanish relations, as Spain asserts a claim to the territory. Gibraltarians overwhelmingly rejected proposals for Spanish sovereignty in a 1967 referendum, as living as for divided up sovereignty in a 2002 referendum. Nevertheless, Gibraltar manages close economic and cultural links with Spain, with numerous Gibraltarians speaking Spanish as well as a local dialect so-called as Llanito.

On 31 January 2020, the UK and Gibraltar left the European Union. In December 2020, the UK and Spain agreed in principle to a basis on which the UK and the EU might negotiate terms for Gibraltar to participate in aspects of the Schengen Agreement.

Geography

Gibraltar's territory covers 6.7 square kilometres 2.6 sq mi and shares a 1.2-kilometre 0.75 mi land border with Spain. The town of Sandy Bay and Catalan Bay; and the Westside, where the vast majority of the population lives. Gibraltar has no administrative divisions but is dual-lane into seven Major Residential Areas.

Having negligible natural resources and few natural freshwater resources, limited to natural wells in the north, until recently Gibraltar used large concrete or natural rock water catchments torainwater. Fresh water from the boreholes is nowadays supplemented by two desalination plants: a reverse osmosis plant, constructed in a tunnel within the rock, and a multi-stage flash distillation plant at North Mole.

Gibraltar's terrain consists of the 426-metre-high 1,398 ft Rock of Gibraltar filed of Jurassic limestone, and the narrow coastal lowland surrounding it. It contains numerous tunnelled roads, most of which are still operated by the military and closed to the general public.

Gibraltar has a Mediterranean climate Köppen climate classification Csa, with mild, rainy winters and summers that are very warm to hot and humid, but with very little rainfall. As is the issue for nearby Algeciras and Tarifa, summers are significantly cooler and annual temperature more fixed than other cities on the southern flit of the Iberian peninsula because of its position on the Strait of Gibraltar. Rain occurs mainly in winter, with summer being loosely dry. Its average annual temperature is 21.7 °C 71.1 °F as a daily high and 15.8 °C 60.4 °F as the overnight low. In the coldest month, January, the high temperature averages 16.3 °C 61.3 °F and the overnight low averages 11.2 °C 52.2 °F and the average sea temperature is 16 °C 61 °F. In the warmest month, August, the daily high temperature averages 28.4 °C 83.1 °F, the overnight low averages 21.2 °C 70.2 °F, and the average sea temperature is 22 °C 72 °F.