Drâa-Tafilalet

Drâa-Tafilalet
Basic data
Country	Morocco
Capital	Errachidia
surface	88,836 km²
Residents	1,653,027 (2016)
density	19 inhabitants per km²
ISO 3166-2	MA-08

Coordinates: 31 ° 11 ′  N , 5 ° 8 ′  W

The Drâa-Tafilalet region ( Arabic درعة تافيلالت, DMG Dar'a Tāfīlālat ) is one of the 12 regions of Morocco that were newly created after an administrative reform in 2015 and extends in the south-east of the Kingdom. The name of the region is derived from the Drâa river and the spacious oasis landscape of the Tafilalet . The capital of the region is the city of Errachidia .

population

In the entire Draâ-Tafilalet region, around 1.635 million people (mostly Berbers ) live in an area of ​​around 86,000 km². Around 1.074 million people live in rural areas ( communes rurales ), around 561,000 people live in cities ( municipalités ).

Provinces

The region consists of the following provinces, whose capitals have the same name:

• Errachidia Province
• Midelt Province
• Ouarzazate Province
• Tinghir Province
• Zagora province

Web links

Commons : Drâa-Tafilalet  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Monograph de la Région de Drâa-Tafilalet. In: Portail national des collectivites territoriales. Royaume du Maroc, Ministere de l'Interieur, accessed on December 9, 2018 (French). 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Annuaire Statistique du Maroc, année 2017. Haut-Commissariat au Plan, 22 November 2018, p. 22 , accessed on 9 December 2018 (in French). 
2. ↑ Cf. arab. Wikipedia article .