El Marsa
El Marsa 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.
- Type: Town with 28,800 residents
- Description: port city in Western Sahara
- Also known as: “El Marsa ⵍⵎⴰⵔⵙⴰ المرسى”, “El Marsa, Western Sahara”, “Laâyoune Plage”, “Lâayoune Plage”, “Marsa”, “Ελ Μάρσα, Δυτική Σαχάρα”, and “جماعة المرسى”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Foum El Oued.
El Marsa
- Categories: port city, urban commune of Morocco, and locality
- Location: Western Sahara, North Africa, Africa
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Latitude
27.09299° or 27° 5′ 35″ north
Longitude
-13.40924° or 13° 24′ 33″ west
Population
28,800
Elevation
4 metres (13 feet)
Open location code
7CV83HVR+58
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Urdu—“El Marsa” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “المرسى”
- Bulgarian: “Ел Марса”
- Bulgarian: “Марса”
- Catalan: “El Marsa”
- Cebuano: “Laayoune Plage”
- Chinese: “艾尔马萨尔”
- French: “El Marsa”
- German: “El Marsa”
- Greek: “Ελ Μάρσα”
- Hausa: “El Marsa, Yammacin Sahara”
- Hindi: “अल मरसा”
- 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”
- Urdu: “المرسی، مغربی صحارا”
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Localities in the Area
Places to explore: Plage de Laâyoune and Port de Laâyoune.
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Highlights: Laâyoune Port ميناء العيون and École Maritech.
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