Ceuta (thee-oota) abuts Morocco on the southern shore of what narrow body of water, FTP, a strait separating Africa from Spain.
The closing of what is now this waterway in the Miocene Epoch led to desiccation in a nearby sea known as the Messinian Salinity Crisis. The foothills of the Baetic Cordillera lie on the northern shore of this waterway and include El Estrecho Natural Park. Its southern shore includes an exclave belonging to the nation the lies across it, one of only two locations where the EU has a land border with Africa. Ceuta (thee-oota) abuts Morocco on the southern shore of what narrow body of water, FTP, a strait separating Africa from Spain.
The closing of what is now this waterway in the Miocene Epoch led to desiccation in a nearby sea known as the Messinian Salinity Crisis.
Strait of Gibraltar