El Marsa
El Marsa Arabic: المرسى is a port city in Moroccan-occupied Western Sahara. According to the Moroccan authorities, El Marsa belongs to Laayoune Province in the region of Laâyoune-Sakia El Hamra.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 17,900 residents
- Description: port city in Western Sahara
- Also known as: “El Marsa, Western Sahara”, “Laayoune Plage”, and “Marsa”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Foum El Oued.
Foum El Oued
Village
Photo: Nassima Chahboun, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Foum El Oued is a village, which is situated 9 km north of El Marsa.
El Marsa
- Categories: port city, urban commune of Morocco, and locality
- Location: Western Sahara, North Africa, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
27.09299° or 27° 5′ 35″ northLongitude
-13.40924° or 13° 24′ 33″ westPopulation
17,900Elevation
4 metres (13 feet)Open location code
7CV83HVR+58OpenStreetMap ID
node 2191422595OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
2461993Wikidata ID
Q3544425
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Swedish—“El Marsa” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “المرسى”
- Arabic: “جماعة المرسى”
- Bulgarian: “Ел Марса”
- Bulgarian: “Марса”
- Catalan: “El Marsa”
- Cebuano: “Laayoune Plage”
- Chinese: “艾尔马萨尔”
- French: “El Marsa”
- French: “Laâyoune Plage”
- German: “El Marsa”
- German: “Lâayoune Plage”
- Japanese: “エル・マルサ”
- Moroccan Arabic: “لمرصى”
- Persian: “المرسی (صحرای غربی)”
- Persian: “المرسی”
- Polish: “Al-Marsa”
- Portuguese: “El Marsa”
- Russian: “Эль-Марса”
- Serbo-Croatian: “El Marsa”
- Spanish: “El Marsa”
- Spanish: “Playa de Aaiún”
- Spanish: “Playa del Aaiun”
- Spanish: “Playa del Aaiún”
- Swedish: “al-Marsa”
- Swedish: “Al-Marsa”
- Swedish: “Laayoune Plage”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “El Marsa”. Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.