Chaouia-Ouardigha

Chaouia-Ouardigha الشاوية ورديغة
Basic data
Country	Morocco
Capital	Settat
surface	7010 km²
Residents	1,655,660 (as of 2004)
density	236 inhabitants per km²
ISO 3166-2 (obsolete)	MA-09 (until 2018)

Coordinates: 33 ° 0 ′  N , 7 ° 37 ′  W

Chaouia-Ouardigha ( Arabic الشاوية ورديغة) was one of the 16 regions of Morocco until the administrative reform of 2015 and was located in the north of the kingdom. In the entire area of ​​Chaouia-Ouardigha, 1,655,660 people (as of 2004) lived on a total area of ​​7,010 km². The capital of the region was Settat .

M. Mohamed Ali El Admi , former member and a co-founder of the Polisario , was replaced as Prefect ( Wali ) of this region by Abdechakour Rais in April 2007 .

The region consisted of the following provinces:

• Ben Slimane
• Berrechid
• Khouribga
• Settat

Since 2015, the province of Khouribga has belonged to the Béni Mellal-Khénifra region , the other three provinces to the Casablanca-Settat region .

Web links

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Individual evidence

1. ↑ Biographies des walis et gouverneurs. ( Memento of the original from December 19, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. journaux.ma, March 3, 2010