Chefchaouen
Chefchaouen is a city in northwest Morocco. It is the chief town of the province of the same name and is noted for its buildings in shades of blue, for which it is nicknamed the "Blue City".| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Photo: Agnieszka Spieszny, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Town with 35,700 residents
- Description: Moroccan city located in the Western Rif in the Akhmas region
- Also known as: “Blue City”, “Chaouen”, “Chaouèn”, “Chechaouèn”, “Chechaouene”, “Chichaouene”, “Ech Chaouene”, “Scheschauen”, “Shafshawan”, and “Xexauen”
Photo: Ekaterina Kvelidze, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Chefchaouen
- Categories: city, urban commune of Morocco, and locality
- Location: Chefchaouen Province, Tangier-Tétouan-Al Hoceima, Mediterranean Morocco, Morocco, North Africa, Africa
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Latitude
35.1688° or 35° 10′ 8″ northLongitude
-5.2683° or 5° 16′ 6″ westPopulation
35,700Elevation
607 metres (1,991 feet)Open location code
8C7P5P9J+GMOpenStreetMap ID
node 332035940OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
2553455Wikidata ID
Q676778
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Chefchaouen” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “الشاون”
- Arabic: “جماعة شفشاون”
- Arabic: “شاون”
- Arabic: “شفشاون”
- Armenian: “Շեֆշաուեն”
- Asturian: “Chefchaouen”
- Basque: “Xauen”
- Bulgarian: “Чефчаоуене”
- Catalan: “Xauen”
- Cebuano: “Chefchaouene”
- Chinese: “契夫蕭安”
- Chinese: “紗富彎”
- Chinese: “舍夫沙万”
- Chinese: “舍夫沙萬”
- Chinese: “蕭安”
- Croatian: “Chefchaouen”
- Czech: “Chaouen”
- Czech: “Chefchaouen”
- Czech: “Šafšawán”
- Czech: “Šafšawān”
- Dutch: “Chefchaouen”
- Egyptian Arabic: “شفشاون”
- Estonian: “Chefchaouen”
- French: “Chaouen”
- French: “Chefchaouen”
- French: “Ville de Chechaouèn”
- Galician: “Xauen”
- German: “Chaouen”
- German: “Chefchaouen”
- Hebrew: “שפשאוון”
- Hungarian: “Sefsáven”
- Indonesian: “Chefchaouen”
- Italian: “Chefchaouen”
- Japanese: “シャウエン”
- Kabyle: “Accawen”
- Korean: “셰프샤우엔”
- Korean: “쉐프샤우엔”
- Ladino: “Xauen”
- Lithuanian: “Šefšauenas”
- Malay: “Chefchaouen”
- Moroccan Arabic: “شفشاون”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Chauen”
- Persian: “شفشاون”
- Polish: “Szafszawan”
- Portuguese: “Chefchaouen”
- Portuguese: “Xexuão”
- Romanian: “Șafșauan”
- Russian: “Шавен”
- Russian: “Шефшауен”
- Scots: “Chaouen”
- Scots: “Chefchaouen”
- Serbian: “Шефшаен”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Chefchaouen”
- South Azerbaijani: “شفشاون”
- Spanish: “Chaouen”
- Spanish: “Chauen”
- Spanish: “Ciudad Azul”
- Spanish: “La Ciudad Azul”
- Spanish: “Xaouen”
- Spanish: “Xauen”
- Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⵛⴼⵛⴰⵡⵏ”
- Swedish: “Chefchaouen”
- Tachelhit: “Ccawn”
- Tachelhit: “Cfcawn”
- Thai: “ชัฟชาวัน”
- Turkish: “Şafşavan”
- Ukrainian: “Шаван”
- Ukrainian: “Шавен”
- Ukrainian: “Шафшаван”
- Ukrainian: “Шефшауен”
- Urdu: “شفشاون”
- Vietnamese: “Chauen”
- Welsh: “Chaouen”
- Welsh: “Chefchaouen”
- Yue Chinese: “舍夫沙萬”
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