Rif
The Rif, also called the Rif Mountains or Rif Region is a geographic region in northern Morocco. The region is bounded to the north by the Mediterranean Sea, to the west by the Atlantic Ocean, to the south by the Ouergha River, and to the east by the Moulouya River.
- Type: Mountain range with an elevation of 982 metres
- Description: Mediterranean region of northern Morocco limited to the south by the Atlas region
- Also known as: “Atlas Rifain”, “Chaine du Riff”, “El Rif”, “Er Riff”, “Rif marocain”, “Rif Mountains”, “Riff”, “Riff Atlas”, “Riff Highland”, “Riff Mountains”, and “রিফ পর্বতশ্রেণী”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Bni Bounsar and Bni Ahmed Imoukzan.
Rif
- Categories: area and landform
- Location: Tanger-Tetouan-Al Hoceima, Morocco, North Africa, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
34.8398° or 34° 50′ 23″ north
Longitude
-4.50353° or 4° 30′ 13″ west
Elevation
982 metres (3,222 feet)
Open location code
8C6QRFQW+WH
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
natural=mountain_range
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Walloon—“Rif” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Rif”
- Arabic: “الريف”
- Arabic: “جبال الريف”
- Aragonese: “Rif”
- Armenian: “Ռիֆ”
- Asturian: “Rif”
- Basque: “Rif”
- Belarusian: “Эр-Рыф”
- Bengali: “রিফ পর্বতমালা”
- Breton: “Rif”
- Bulgarian: “Риф”
- Catalan: “Rif”
- Cebuano: “Er Rif”
- Chinese: “里夫山脈”
- Croatian: “Rif”
- Czech: “Ríf”
- Danish: “Rifbjergene”
- Dutch: “Rifgebergte”
- Esperanto: “Rif-montaro”
- Finnish: “Rif”
- French: “Rif”
- Galician: “Rif”
- Georgian: “ელ-რიფი”
- German: “Rif”
- German: “Rifgebirge”
- Hebrew: “ריף (אזור)”
- Hebrew: “ריף”
- Hungarian: “Rif-hegység”
- Icelandic: “Rif”
- Indonesian: “Rif”
- Interlingua: “Rif”
- Italian: “Rif”
- Japanese: “リーフ地方”
- Kabyle: “Arrif”
- Kabyle: “Da Arif”
- Kirghiz: “Риф”
- Korean: “리프산맥”
- Ladin: “Rif”
- Ladino: “Rif”
- Lithuanian: “Rifo kalnai”
- Malay: “Rif”
- Moroccan Arabic: “الريف”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Riffjellene”
- Norwegian: “Riffjellene”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Rif”
- Persian: “ریف”
- Polish: “Rif”
- Portuguese: “Rife”
- Romanian: “Rif”
- Russian: “Эр-Риф”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Rif”
- Slovenian: “Rif”
- Spanish: “Rif”
- Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⴰⵔⵉⴼ”
- Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⴰⵔⵔⵉⴼ”
- Swedish: “Rifbergen”
- Tachelhit: “Rrif”
- Tamil: “ரிப் மலைத்தொடர்”
- Turkish: “Rif Dağları”
- Ukrainian: “Ер-Риф”
- Urdu: “ریف”
- Venetian: “Rif”
- Walloon: “Rif (montinnes)”
- Walloon: “Rif”
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Localities in the Area
Places to explore: أوني and أزرو إزكاغن.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights: Jebel Tidirhine and مسجد اولاد ابكار mosquée aoulad abekkar.
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