Zag
Zag is a town in southern Morocco, in the Assa-Zag province of the Guelmim-Oued Noun region. It lies to the south of the town of Assa and is the last settlement on the road south from there until Western Sahara.
- Type: Town with 13,900 residents
- Description: human settlement in Morocco
- Also known as: “Zag ⵥⴰⴳ الزاك”, “Zag, Morocco”, and “جماعة الزاك”
Zag
- Categories: urban commune of Morocco, commune of Morocco, and locality
- Location: Zag, Assa-Zag Province, Guelmim-Oued Noun, Morocco, North Africa, Africa
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Latitude
28.02203° or 28° 1′ 19″ north
Longitude
-9.29461° or 9° 17′ 41″ west
Population
13,900
Elevation
410 metres (1,345 feet)
Open location code
7CWG2PC4+R5
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Urdu—“Zag” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “الزاك”
- Catalan: “Zag”
- Cebuano: “Zag”
- Dutch: “Zag”
- French: “Zag”
- German: “Zag”
- Italian: “Zag”
- Moroccan Arabic: “الزاڭ”
- Moroccan Arabic: “الزاݣ”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Zag”
- Persian: “زاک، مراکش”
- Persian: “زاک”
- Portuguese: “Zag”
- South Azerbaijani: “زاک، مراکش”
- Spanish: “Saac”
- Swedish: “Zag”
- Urdu: “زگ، موروککو”
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