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Marrakesh or Marrakech (/ m ə ˈ r æ k ɛ ʃ, ˌ m ær ə ˈ k ɛ ʃ /; [3] Arabic: مراكش, romanized: murrākuš, pronounced [murraːkuʃ]) is the fourth-largest city in Morocco. [2] It is one of the four imperial cities of Morocco and is the capital of the Marrakesh–Safi region.
Berber languages are spoken by 24.8% of the population in three varieties (3.2% speak Tarifit, 14.2% speak Shilha, and 7.4% speak Tamazight). [30] According to the 2024 Moroccan census, 99.2%, or almost the entire literate population of Morocco, could read and write in Arabic, while 1.5% of the population could read and write in Berber.
At the time of the 2014 population census, Morocco was divided into 1538 communes, 256 of which were classified as urban [2] and also called municipalities. [3] The remaining 1282 communes were classified as rural. [2] Urban centres were defined by the High Commission for Planning for some rural communes. [4]
Micro data centers (MDCs) are access-level data centers which are smaller in size than traditional data centers but provide the same features. [138] They are typically located near the data source to reduce communication delays, as their small size allows several MDCs to be spread out over a wide area.
Marrakech–Asfi was formed in September 2015 by merging the old region of Marrakech–Tensift–El Haouz with the provinces of Asfi and Youssoufia in Doukkala-Abda region. [ 3 ] In September 2023 the region was struck by a large magnitude 6.9 earthquake that reportedly left over 2,800 people dead and injured more than 3,000 others.
It was situated in central Morocco. It covered an area of 31,160 km² and had a population of 3,576,673 (2014 census). [2] The capital is Marrakesh. In 2015, the region annexed Safi and Youssoufia Provinces (both formerly from the Doukkala-Abda Region) to become the Region of Marrakesh-Safi.
Morocco has a population of around 37,076,584 inhabitants (2021 estimate). [216] [217] Morocco's population was 11.6 million in 1960. [218] In 2024, 49.7% of the population is female, while 50.3% of it is male. [213] According to the 2014 Morocco population census, there were around 84,000 immigrants in the country.
Location of Morocco True-colour image of Morocco from Terra spacecraft Topography of Morocco. Morocco is the northwesternmost country which spans from the Mediterranean Sea and Atlantic Ocean on the north and the west respectively, into large mountainous areas in the interior, to the Sahara desert in the far south.