Guelmim-Oued Noun

Guelmim-Oued Noun
Basic data
Country	Morocco
Capital	Guelmim
surface	46,108 km²
Residents	437,376 (2016)
density	9.5 inhabitants per km²
ISO 3166-2	MA-10

Coordinates: 28 ° 31 '  N , 10 ° 2'  W

The Guelmim-Oued Noun region ( Arabic كلميم - واد نون) is one of the 12 regions of Morocco that were created after an administrative reform in 2015 . The name of the region is derived from the town of Guelmim and the Oued Noun river . The capital of the region is the city of Guelmim.

location

The region extends in the south of the kingdom near the border with the Western Sahara areas, which have been occupied since 1975/76, at altitudes between 0 and about 1200 m above sea level. d. M. The region essentially comprises the western foothills of the Anti-Atlas Mountains, a coastal strip on the Atlantic Ocean with the city of Sidi Ifni and the region north of the politically disputed Western Sahara areas.

population

In the entire Guelmim-Oued Noun region, around 434,000 people (mostly Berbers ) live in an area of ​​around 44,000 km². Approx. 154,000 people live in rural areas ( communes rurales ), about 280,000 people live in cities ( municipalités ).

Provinces

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

• Assa-zag province
• Guelmim Province
• Sidi Ifni Province
• Tan-Tan Province

Web links

Commons : Guelmim-Oued Noun  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Monograph de la Région de Guelmim-Oued Noun. 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).