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Drâa-Tafilalet

Drâa-Tafilalet is one of the twelve regions of . It covers an area of 88,836 km2 and had a population of 1,635,008 as of the 2014 Moroccan census. The capital of the region is .
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  • Type: Region with 1,640,000 residents
  • Description: region of Morocco, formerly known as Sijilmasa from its previous largest settlement
  • Also known as: “Dar’a”, “Dara”, “Darʿa”, “Dra Tafilalt”, “Dra-Tafilalt”, “Draa Tafilalet”, “Draa-Tafilalet”, “Drâa-Tafilalet ⴷⴰⵔⵄⴰ-ⵜⴰⴼⵉⵍⴰⵍⵜ درعة تافيلالت”, “Draa-Tafilalt”, “Sijilmasa”, “Tafilalet”, and “Tafilalt”

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Alnif.

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is a town in , Drâa-Tafilalet, , known for its significant paleontological discoveries. It is located in the southeastern region of Morocco, approximately 180 kilometers east of , and 1,020 kilometers south of .

Drâa-Tafilalet

Latitude
31.1835° or 31° 11′ 1″ north
Longitude
-5.1395° or 5° 8′ 22″ west
Population
1,640,000
Elevation
948 metres (3,110 feet)
Open location code
8C3P5VM6+C5
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1963660780
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­region
Geo­Names ID
11281881
Wiki­data ID
Q19950954
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Uzbek—“Drâa-Tafilalet” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “جهة درعة - تافيلالت”
  • Arabic: “جهة درعة تافيلالت”
  • Arabic: “درعة تافيلالت”
  • Arabic: “درعة-تافيلالت”
  • Basque: “Draa-Tafilalet”
  • Basque: “Drâa-Tafilalet”
  • Catalan: “Drâa-Tafilalet”
  • Chinese: “Drâa-Tafilalet Tē-hng”
  • Chinese: “德拉-塔菲拉勒特大區”
  • Czech: “Dra-Tafilalt”
  • Danish: “Drâa-Tafilalet”
  • Estonian: “Drâa-Tafilaleti piirkond”
  • Finnish: “Drâa-Tafilalet”
  • French: “Drâa-Tafilalet”
  • German: “Drâa-Tafilalet”
  • Indonesian: “Drâa-Tafilalet”
  • Italian: “Drâa-Tafilalet”
  • Japanese: “ドラア＝タフィラルト地方”
  • Korean: “드라타필랄레트 지방”
  • Malay: “Drâa-Tafilalet”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Drâa-Tafilalet Tē-hng”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “جهة درعة تافيلالت”
  • Northern Frisian: “Drâa-Tafilalet”
  • Persian: “درعه تافیلالت”
  • Persian: “منطقه درعه–تافیلالت”
  • Polish: “Dara-Tafilalt”
  • Polish: “Daraa-Tafilalet”
  • Portuguese: “Drá-Tafilete”
  • Russian: “Драа — Тафилалет”
  • Russian: “Драа-Тафилалет”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Drâa-Tafilalet”
  • Sinhala: “ඩ්‍රා-ටෆිලලෙට් කලාපය (මොරොක්කෝව)”
  • Sinhala: “ඩ්‍රා-ටෆිලලෙට් කලාපය”
  • Slovenian: “Draa - Tafilalet”
  • Slovenian: “Sidžilmasa”
  • Spanish: “Draa-Tafilalet”
  • Spanish: “Región de Draa-Tafilalet”
  • Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⴷⵔⴰ ⵜⴰⴼⵉⵍⴰⵍⵜ”
  • Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⵜⴰⵎⵏⴰⴹⵜ ⵏ ⴷⵔⴰ ⵜⴰⴼⵉⵍⴰⵍⵜ”
  • Tachelhit: “Tamnaḍt n Dra-Tafilalt”
  • Turkish: “Dirâ-Tafilalit”
  • Ukrainian: “Драа — Тафілалет”
  • Ukrainian: “Драа-Тафилалет”
  • Urdu: “درعہ تافیلالت”
  • Uzbek: “Drâa-Tafilalet”

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