evidence: - CNN - Inside the tiny corner of Spain that lies in the middle of North Africa - BBC News - Ceuta, Melilla profile - GlobalSecurity.org - Ceuta - NASA - Ceuta, Northern Africa - CRW Flags - Flag of Ceuta, Spain - The Telegraph - The curious slice of Spain in Africa - BBC - Ceuta and Melilla: Spain's enclaves in North Africa Ceuta, Spanish exclave, military post, and free port on the coast of Morocco, at the Mediterranean entrance to the Strait of Gibraltar. Ceuta is an autonomous city administered by Spain. Ceuta, Melilla (also an exclave), and other tiny islets along the coast of North Africa constitute the territories of Spanish North Africa. The city is on a narrow isthmus that connects Mount Hacho (also held by Spain) to the mainland. (Mount Hacho has been identified as possibly the southern Pillar of Heracles, of the ancient Mediterranean world; Jebel Moussa [Musa] in Morocco is another possibility.) On the summit of Mount Hacho is a fort used by the Spanish military.