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The Mediterranean Sea covers an area of about , representing 0.7% of the global ocean surface, but its connection to the Atlantic via the Strait of Gibraltar—the narrow strait that connects the Atlantic Ocean to the Mediterranean Sea and separates Spain in Europe from Morocco in Africa—is only wide. In oceanography, it is sometimes called the "Eurafrican Mediterranean Sea", the "European Mediterranean Sea" or the "African Mediterranean Sea" to distinguish it from mediterranean seas elsewhere.