Kenitra

Kenitra is a city in northwestern . It is a port on the with a population of 507,736 as of 2024. It is one of the three main cities of the region and the capital of the similarly named .
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  • Type: City with 508,000 residents
  • Description: city in Morocco
  • Also known as: Al Qunayţirah”, “Khenifra”, “Lyautey”, “Port Laoti”, “Port Lyautey”, and “Ville de Kenitra

Places of Interest

Highlights include Kenitra Municipal Stadium and Kénitra railway station.

Stadium
is a multi-purpose stadium in Kenitra, which has been inaugurated in 1941. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home stadium of Kénitra AC. The stadium has a capacity up to 28,000.

Kenitra

Latitude
34.2646° or 34° 15′ 53″ north
Longitude
-6.5702° or 6° 34′ 13″ west
Population
508,000
Elevation
13 metres (43 feet)
IATA airport code
NNA
Open location code
8C6M7C7H+RW
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1863747049
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2544571
Wiki­data ID
Q478207
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Welsh—“Kenitra” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: Kenitra
  • Arabic: القنيطرة
  • Arabic: القنيطره
  • Arabic: جماعة القنيطرة
  • Arabic: مدينة القنيطرة
  • Armenian: Կենիտրա
  • Asturian: Kenitra
  • Basque: Kenitra
  • Belarusian: Кенітра
  • Bengali: কেনিত্রা
  • Bulgarian: Кенитра
  • Catalan: Kenitra
  • Catalan: Kénitra
  • Cebuano: Kenitra (kapital sa rehiyon)
  • Cebuano: Kenitra
  • Chinese: 盖尼特拉
  • Chinese: 蓋尼特拉
  • Croatian: Kenitra
  • Czech: Kenitra
  • Czech: Kénitra
  • Danish: Kenitra
  • Danish: Kénitra
  • Dutch: Kenitra
  • Dutch: Kénitra
  • Dutch: Port Lyautey
  • Egyptian Arabic: القنيطره, المغرب
  • Esperanto: Kenitra
  • Esperanto: Kenitro
  • Estonian: Kenitra
  • Finnish: Kenitra
  • Finnish: Kénitra
  • French: Kenitra
  • French: Kénitra
  • French: Port Lyautey
  • French: Port-Lyautey
  • Georgian: კენიტრა
  • German: Kenitra
  • German: Kénitra
  • German: Port-Lyautey
  • Greek: Κενίτρα
  • Gujarati: કેનિટ્રા
  • Hebrew: אל-קניטרה
  • Hebrew: פור ליוטה
  • Hindi: केनित्रा
  • Hungarian: Kenitra
  • Indonesian: Kenitra
  • Irish: Kenitra
  • Italian: Kenitra
  • Italian: Port Lyautey
  • Italian: Port-Lyautey
  • Japanese: ケニトラ
  • Kabyle: Qniṭra
  • Kannada: ಕೆನಿತ್ರಾ
  • Kazakh: Kenïtra qalası
  • Kazakh: Кенитра қаласы
  • Kazakh: Кенитра
  • Kazakh: كەنىيترا قالاسى
  • Korean: 케니트라
  • Latvian: Kenitra
  • Lithuanian: Kenitra
  • Macedonian: Кенитра
  • Malay: Kenitra
  • Maltese: Kenitra
  • Marathi: केनिट्रा
  • Moroccan Arabic: قنيطرة
  • Northern Frisian: Kénitra
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Kenitra
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Kénitra
  • Norwegian: Kenitra
  • Norwegian: Kénitra
  • Persian: قنیطره
  • Polish: Al-Kunajtira
  • Polish: Kenitra
  • Polish: Kénitra
  • Polish: Port Lyautey
  • Portuguese: Kenitra
  • Portuguese: Kénitra
  • Portuguese: Port-Lyautey
  • Portuguese: Quenitra
  • Romanian: Kenitra
  • Russian: Кенитра
  • Russian: Мина-Хасан-Тани
  • Russian: Пор-Лиотэ
  • Russian: Порт-Лиоте
  • Serbo-Croatian: Kenitra
  • Sinhala: කෙනිට්‍රා
  • Slovenian: Kenitra
  • South Azerbaijani: قنیطره (مراکش)
  • South Azerbaijani: قنیطره
  • Spanish: Kenitra
  • Spanish: Kénitra
  • Spanish: Port Lyautey
  • Spanish: Port-Lyautey
  • Standard Moroccan Tamazight: ⵍⵇⵏⴹⵕⵜ (ⵇⵏⵉⵟⵕⴰ)
  • Standard Moroccan Tamazight: ⵍⵇⵏⴹⵕⵜ
  • Swahili: Kenitra
  • Swedish: Kenitra
  • Swedish: Kénitra
  • Swedish: Mina Hassan Tani
  • Swedish: Port-Lyautey
  • Tachelhit: Lqnḍrt
  • Tachelhit: Qnitra
  • Tajik: Қунайтира
  • Tamil: கேநீட்ரா
  • Telugu: కెనిత్ర
  • Thai: เคนิทร่า
  • Turkish: Kenitra
  • Turkish: Kuneytire, Fas
  • Uighur: قۇنەيتىرە (ماراكەش)
  • Uighur: قۇنەيتىرە
  • Ukrainian: Кенітра
  • Urdu: قنیطرہ
  • Urdu: کینترا
  • Urdu: کینیترا
  • Uzbek: Qunaytira
  • Venetian: Kenitra
  • Vietnamese: Kenitra
  • Waray (Philippines): Kenitra
  • Welsh: Kenitra
  • Welsh: Kénitra

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