Rissani
Rissani is a town in Errachidia Province, Drâa-Tafilalet. Rissani is situated nearby to the village Ksar Manouga, as well as near Es-Sifa.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 20,100 residents
- Description: human settlement in Morocco
- Also known as: “Moulay Ali Cherif”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Sijilmasa.
Sijilmasa
Archaeological site
Photo: Hmidanix, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Sijilmasa was a medieval Moroccan city and trade entrepôt at the northern edge of the Sahara in Morocco. The ruins of the town extend for five miles along the River Ziz in the Tafilalt oasis near the town of Rissani.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Rissani.
Rissani
Photo: Baca12, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Rissani is a town in Errachidia Province in eastern Morocco, located near Erfoud. It is the closest town of significant size to the Erg Chebbi, the largest sand desert in Morocco.
Rissani
- Categories: urban commune of Morocco and locality
- Location: Errachidia Province, Drâa-Tafilalet, Morocco, North Africa, Africa
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Latitude
31.2847° or 31° 17′ 5″ northLongitude
-4.267° or 4° 16′ 1″ westPopulation
20,100Elevation
759 metres (2,490 feet)Open location code
8C3Q7PMM+V6OpenStreetMap ID
node 50789916OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
6546290Wikidata ID
Q2154823
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yiddish—“Rissani” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “الجرف (البلدية)”
- Arabic: “الريصاني”
- Arabic: “جماعة مولاي علي الشريف الحضرية”
- Arabic: “جماعة مولاي علي الشريف”
- Arabic: “مولاي علي الشريف”
- Bulgarian: “Рисани”
- Catalan: “Er-Rissani”
- Catalan: “Moulay Ali Cherif”
- Catalan: “Mulay Ali Cherif”
- Catalan: “Rissani”
- Cebuano: “Er-Rissani”
- Cebuano: “Moulay Ali Cherif”
- Cebuano: “Rissani”
- Czech: “Rissani”
- Dutch: “Rissani”
- French: “Moulay Ali Cherif (Commune Urbaine)”
- French: “Moulay Ali Cherif (MU)”
- French: “Moulay Ali Cherif”
- French: “Moulay Ali Chérif”
- French: “Rissani”
- German: “Rissani”
- Hebrew: “ריסאני”
- Italian: “Er-rissani”
- Italian: “Rissani”
- Japanese: “リサニ”
- Moroccan Arabic: “الريصاني”
- Moroccan Arabic: “مولاي علي الشريف”
- Moroccan Arabic: “مولاي علي شّريف”
- Persian: “ریصانی”
- Polish: “Ar-Rajsani”
- Polish: “Ar-Risani”
- Polish: “Rissani”
- Portuguese: “Rissani”
- Russian: “Риссани”
- South Azerbaijani: “ریصانی”
- Swedish: “Er-Rissani”
- Swedish: “Moulay Ali Cherif”
- Swedish: “Rissani”
- Yiddish: “ריסאני”
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