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The 12 regions of Morocco since 2015 (including Western Sahara) Moroccan administrative division Regions are currently the highest administrative divisions in Morocco.Since 2015, Morocco officially administers 12 regions, including one (Dakhla-Oued Ed-Dahab) that lies completely within the disputed territory of Western Sahara and two (Laâyoune-Sakia El Hamra and Guelmim-Oued Noun) that lie ...
In Morocco, a wilaya is an administrative division created in 1981 that "brings together many provinces or prefectures or both at the same time, and is intended to endow big urban units such as Casablanca with an administrative organization capable of meeting the needs that emerge from these expanding cities and their growing populations."
This article describes the process by which the territorial extent of Morocco came to be as it is now. The country reached its maximum extent during the period of these dynasties: Almoravid , [ 1 ] Almohad , [ 2 ] Marinid [ 3 ] and the Saadi dynasty , [ 4 ] in addition to the greatest extent of the current dynasty, the Alaouite .
Current map of the territories controlled by the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic and the Southern Provinces of Morocco. The Southern Provinces [a] or Moroccan Sahara [b] are the terms used by the Moroccan government to refer to the occupied territory [1] [2] of Western Sahara. These designations encompass the entirety of Western Sahara, which ...
Morocco then annexed the entire territory and, in 1985 built a 2,500-kilometer sand berm around three-quarters of Western Sahara. [164] In 1988, Morocco and the Polisario Front agreed on a United Nations (UN) peace plan, and a cease-fire and settlement plan went into effect in 1991.
Morocco, [d] officially the Kingdom of Morocco, [e] is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It overlooks the Mediterranean Sea to the north and the Atlantic Ocean to the west, and has land borders with Algeria to the east , and the disputed territory of Western Sahara to the south .
Mauretania Tingitana (Latin for "Tangerine Mauretania") was a Roman province, coinciding roughly with the northern part of present-day Morocco. [1] [2] The territory stretched from the northern peninsula opposite Gibraltar, to Sala Colonia (or Chellah) and Volubilis to the south, [3] and as far east as the Mulucha (or Malva) river.
This is a list of the second-level administrative divisions of the Kingdom of Morocco including all provinces and prefectures in descending order of their total areas as per the Census Report of 2004. Note: Most areas of some divisions are shown combined.