Figuig
Figuig or Figig is an oasis town in eastern Morocco near the Atlas Mountains, on the border with Algeria. The town is built around an oasis of date palms, surrounded by rugged, mountainous wilderness.
Photo: Aajaja, Public domain.
- Type: City with 13,300 residents
- Description: city in Morocco
- Also known as: “Figuig ⵉⴼⵉⵢⵢⵉⵢ فكيك”, “Fikīk”, “جماعة فجيج”, “فڭيڭ”, and “فگيگ”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Ksar of Lamaïz.
Figuig
- Categories: oasis, urban commune of Morocco, border city, and locality
- Location: Figuig Province, Oriental, Morocco, North Africa, Africa
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Latitude
32.115° or 32° 6′ 54″ north
Longitude
-1.2304° or 1° 13′ 49″ west
Population
13,300
Elevation
866 metres (2,841 feet)
Open location code
8C4W4Q89+2R
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Figuig” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بوعرفة (البلدية)”
- Arabic: “فجيج”
- Arabic: “فقيق”
- Arabic: “فكيك”
- Asturian: “Figuig”
- Basque: “Figuig”
- Bengali: “ফিগুইগ”
- Catalan: “Figuig”
- Cebuano: “Figuig”
- Chinese: “菲吉格”
- Danish: “Figuig”
- Dutch: “Figuig”
- Egyptian Arabic: “فكيك”
- Finnish: “Figuig”
- French: “Figuig (Commune Urbaine)”
- French: “Figuig (MU)”
- French: “Figuig”
- German: “Figuig”
- Greek: “Φίγκουιγκ”
- Gujarati: “ફિગુઈગ”
- Hindi: “फ़िगीग”
- Indonesian: “Figuig”
- Italian: “Figuig”
- Japanese: “ファキク”
- Kabyle: “Ifiyyey”
- Kannada: “ಫಿಗುಯಿಗ್”
- Korean: “피기그”
- Latvian: “Figiga”
- Lithuanian: “Figigas”
- Malay: “Figuig”
- Marathi: “फीगुइग”
- Moroccan Arabic: “فيڭيڭ”
- Moroccan Arabic: “فيݣيݣ”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Figuig”
- Persian: “فکیک”
- Polish: “Fidżidż”
- Polish: “Fukajk”
- Portuguese: “Figuig”
- Portuguese: “Figuigue”
- Romanian: “Figuig”
- Russian: “Фигиг”
- Sinhala: “ෆිගුඉග්”
- South Azerbaijani: “فکیک”
- Spanish: “Figuig”
- Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⴼⵉⴳⵉⴳ”
- Swedish: “Figuig”
- Tachelhit: “Figig”
- Tamil: “பிகுயிங்”
- Telugu: “ఫిగ్ఇగ్”
- Thai: “ฟิกิก”
- Tumbuka: “Figuig”
- Turkish: “Fecic”
- Turkish: “Figuig”
- Ukrainian: “Фігіг”
- Urdu: “فکیک”
- Vietnamese: “Figuig”
- Welsh: “Figuig”
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