Morocco
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Sale

Salé

Salé is a city in northwestern , on the right bank of the river, opposite the national capital , for which it serves as a commuter town.
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  • Type: City with 1,000,000 residents
  • Description: city in Morocco
  • Also known as: “Sale”, “Salee”, “Sali”, “Sallee”, and “The city of pirates”
  • Historically known as: “Slà”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Hassan’s Tower and Chellah.

Photo: PetarM, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Hassan Tower or Tour Hassan; is the minaret of an incomplete in , . It was commissioned by Abu Yusuf Yaqub al-Mansur, the third caliph of the Almohad Caliphate, near the end of the 12th century.

Archaeological site
Photo: HalaRah, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The or Shalla is a medieval fortified Muslim necropolis and ancient archeological site in , , located on the south side of the estuary.

Mosque
Photo: R Prazeres, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Great Mosque of Salé, also known as the Masjid al-Tal'a, is a historic in Salé, Morocco. It is the main mosque of the old city. Covering an area of 5,070 m2, it is the third-largest mosque in Morocco.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Rabat and Touarga.

Photo: Nawalbennani, CC BY-SA 3.0.
, literally "Fortified Place", is the capital city of . The city of is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Town
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
is a town.

Village
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The , also spelled Kasbah of the Oudaias or of the Oudayas, is a in , . It is located on a hill at the mouth of the opposite Salé, and adjacent to the Medina quarter of Rabat.

Salé

Latitude
34.0449° or 34° 2′ 42″ north
Longitude
-6.814° or 6° 48′ 51″ west
Population
1,000,000
Elevation
34 metres (112 feet)
United Nations Location Code
MA SAL
Open location code
8C6M25VP+X9
Open­Street­Map ID
node 414081770
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2537763
Wiki­data ID
Q466046
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yiddish—“Salé” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “جماعة سلا”
  • Arabic: “سلا”
  • Arabic: “مدينة القراصنة”
  • Armenian: “Սալե (քաղաք)”
  • Armenian: “Սալե”
  • Asturian: “Salé”
  • Basque: “Sale”
  • Belarusian: “Сале”
  • Bengali: “জলদস্যুদের শহর”
  • Bengali: “সালে”
  • Breton: “Salé”
  • Bulgarian: “Сале”
  • Catalan: “Sale”
  • Catalan: “Salé”
  • Cebuano: “Sale”
  • Chechen: “Сале”
  • Chinese: “塞拉”
  • Chinese: “萨累”
  • Croatian: “Salé”
  • Czech: “Salé”
  • Danish: “Sale”
  • Danish: “Salé”
  • Dutch: “Sale”
  • Dutch: “Salé”
  • Dutch: “Salè”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “سلا”
  • Esperanto: “Sala”
  • Estonian: “Salé”
  • Finnish: “Salé”
  • French: “La ville des pirates”
  • French: “Sale maroc”
  • French: “Salé-le-Vieil”
  • French: “Salé-le-Vieux”
  • French: “Salé”
  • French: “Vieux-Salé”
  • French: “Ville de Salé-Maroc”
  • Galician: “Salé”
  • German: “Salé”
  • Greek: “Σαλέ”
  • Gujarati: “સેલે”
  • Hausa: “Salé”
  • Hebrew: “סלא”
  • Hindi: “साले”
  • Hungarian: “Szale”
  • Indonesian: “Salé”
  • Irish: “Salé”
  • Italian: “Salé”
  • Japanese: “サレ”
  • Javanese: “Salé”
  • Kabyle: “Sla”
  • Kannada: “ಸಲೆ”
  • Kazakh: “Sale”
  • Kazakh: “Сале”
  • Kazakh: “سالە”
  • Korean: “살레”
  • Latvian: “Sale”
  • Lithuanian: “Sale”
  • Lithuanian: “Salė”
  • Macedonian: “Сале”
  • Malay: “Salé”
  • Maltese: “Maħmuġ”
  • Maltese: “Salé”
  • Marathi: “सेल”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “سلا”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “مدينة القرصانة”
  • Northern Frisian: “Salé”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Sale”
  • Norwegian: “Salé”
  • Persian: “ساله”
  • Persian: “سلا”
  • Polish: “Sala”
  • Polish: “Salé”
  • Portuguese: “Salé”
  • Romanian: “Sale”
  • Romanian: “Salé”
  • Russian: “Сале”
  • Scots: “Salé”
  • Serbian: “Сале”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Salé”
  • Shona: “Salé”
  • Sinhala: “සාලේ”
  • Slovenian: “Salé”
  • South Azerbaijani: “سلا”
  • Spanish: “Sale”
  • Spanish: “Salé”
  • Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⵙⵍⴰ”
  • Swahili: “Sale”
  • Swedish: “Salé”
  • Tachelhit: “Sla”
  • Tamil: “சேல்”
  • Tatar: “Сале”
  • Telugu: “సాలే”
  • Thai: “ซาเล็ม”
  • Turkish: “Salé”
  • Turkish: “Selâ”
  • Ukrainian: “Сале”
  • Urdu: “سلا”
  • Uzbek: “Sale”
  • Venetian: “Salé”
  • Vietnamese: “Salé”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Salé”
  • Welsh: “Salé”
  • Yiddish: “סאלי”

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Notable Places Nearby

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