Haouza
Haouza, also Hawza or Hausa, is a town in Moroccan-occupied Western Sahara, on the west side of the Moroccan Western Sahara Wall. According to the 2004 census it has a population of 8,769 people.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Village with 2,400 residents
- Description: human settlement in Western Sahara
- Also known as: “Hausa” and “Ḥawza”
Haouza
- Categories: rural commune of Morocco, commune of Morocco, and locality
- Location: Es Semara Province, Laâyoune-Sakia El Hamra, Morocco, North Africa, Africa
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Latitude
27.111° or 27° 6′ 40″ northLongitude
-10.9714° or 10° 58′ 17″ westPopulation
2,400Elevation
222 metres (728 feet)Open location code
7CVF426H+9FOpenStreetMap ID
node 2802423304OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
6545651Wikidata ID
Q1584114
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Swedish—“Haouza” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “امكالة”
- Arabic: “جماعة حوزة”
- Arabic: “حوزة”
- Bulgarian: “Хаоуза”
- Bulgarian: “Хауза”
- Catalan: “Haouza”
- Cebuano: “Haouza”
- Chinese: “奥扎”
- Chinese: “奧扎”
- Chinese: “豪扎”
- Dutch: “Haouza”
- French: “Haouza (Commune Rurale)”
- French: “Haouza (CR)”
- French: “Haouza”
- German: “Al-Hauza”
- German: “Al-Hawza”
- German: “Haousa (Westsahara)”
- German: “Haousa”
- German: “Haouza”
- German: “Hausa”
- German: “Ḥauza”
- Hungarian: “Haouza”
- Italian: “Haouza”
- Japanese: “ハウザ”
- Moroccan Arabic: “لحوزة”
- Polish: “Al-Hauza”
- Polish: “Al-Hawza”
- Polish: “Haouza”
- Polish: “Hauza”
- Spanish: “Haouza”
- Spanish: “Hausa (Comuna Rural)”
- Spanish: “Hausa (CR)”
- Spanish: “Hausa”
- Swedish: “Hawza”
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