Mogador Island
Mogador Island is the main island of the Iles Purpuraires near Essaouira in Morocco. It is about 3 kilometres long and 1.5 kilometres wide, and lies about 1.5 kilometres from Essaouira.Photo: Christian Pirkl, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Island
- Description: island in Morocco
- Also known as: “Ile de Mogador”, “Jazīra Mūkādūr”, and “l’îlot d’ Essaouira”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Bab Doukkala (Essaouira).
Bab Doukkala (Essaouira)
City gate
Photo: Jklamo, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Bab Doukkala (Essaouira) is a city gate, which is situated 3 km northeast of Mogador Island.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Essaouira and Diabat.
Essaouira
Photo: Inkey, CC BY-SA 2.5.
Essaouira, known until the 1960s as Mogador, is a port city in the western Moroccan region of Marrakesh-Safi, on the Atlantic coast. It has 77,966 inhabitants as of 2014.
Diabat
Village
Photo: World Imaging, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Diabat is a village in western Morocco near the coast of the Atlantic Ocean about five kilometres south of the city of Essaouira. The Bordj El Berod is a ruined watchtower located somewhat south of the mouth of Oued Ksob near about one kilometre west of Diabat. Diabat is situated 2½ km southeast of Mogador Island.
Mogador Island
- Category: landform
- Location: Essaouira Province, Marrakesh-Safi, Morocco, North Africa, Africa
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Swedish—“Mogador Island” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “جزيرة موغادور”
- Arabic: “جزيرة موكادور”
- Arabic: “جزيرة موڭادور”
- Arabic: “جزيرة موگادور”
- Arabic: “موغادور”
- Arabic: “موكادور”
- Arabic: “موڭادور”
- Arabic: “موگادور”
- Bengali: “মোগাদোর দ্বীপ”
- Cebuano: “Mogador island”
- Dutch: “Mogador island”
- Estonian: “Mogador”
- Finnish: “Mogador”
- French: “Djazīra Mūkādūr”
- French: “Île d’ Essaouira”
- French: “île de Mogador”
- French: “Île de Mogador”
- German: “Dschazīra Mūkādūr”
- German: “Mogador”
- Norwegian: “Mogadorøya”
- Polish: “Dżazirat Mukadur”
- Polish: “Mogador”
- Spanish: “Isla de Mogador”
- Swedish: “Île de Mogador”
Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Borj Lbaroud and Oued Ksob.
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