Essaouira

Essaouira, known until the 1960s as Mogador, is a port city in the western region of , on the Atlantic coast. It has 77,966 inhabitants as of 2014.
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  • Type: City with 77,400 residents
  • Description: city in Marrakech-Safi, Morocco
  • Also known as: “al-Sawira”, “Aş Şuwayrah”, “aṣ-Ṣawīra”, “Es Suira”, “Essaouira ⵚⵚⵡⵉⵕⴰ الصويرة”, “Magador”, and “Saouira”
  • Historically known as: “Mogadar”, “Mogador”, and “Suira”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Bab Doukkala (Essaouira).

City gate
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is a city gate.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Diabat.

Village
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is a village in western near the coast of the Atlantic Ocean about five kilometres south of the city of Essaouira. The Bordj El Berod is a ruined watchtower located somewhat south of the mouth of near about one kilometre west of .

Essaouira

Latitude
31.5131° or 31° 30′ 47″ north
Longitude
-9.7697° or 9° 46′ 11″ west
Population
77,400
Elevation
7 metres (23 feet)
IATA airport code
ESU
United Nations Location Code
MA ESS
Open location code
8C3GG67J+64
Open­Street­Map ID
node 245486763
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2549263
Wiki­data ID
Q216939
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Yiddish—“Essaouira” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “As-Shawirah”
  • Albanian: “Essaouira”
  • Arabic: “الصويرة”
  • Arabic: “تصنيفز مدن فينيقية”
  • Arabic: “جزيرة موكادور”
  • Arabic: “جماعة الصويرة”
  • Arabic: “صويرة”
  • Arabic: “موغادور” (historical)
  • Arabic: “موكادور” (historical)
  • Armenian: “Էս Սուվեյրա”
  • Asturian: “Esauira”
  • Asturian: “Esauria”
  • Asturian: “Essaouira”
  • Bashkir: “Әс-Сувейра”
  • Basque: “Essauira”
  • Basque: “Mogador”
  • Basque: “Taṣṣurt”
  • Belarusian: “Эс-Сувейра”
  • Bengali: “এসসাওইরা”
  • Breton: “Essaouira”
  • Catalan: “Al-Sawira”
  • Catalan: “Al-Suwaira”
  • Catalan: “Al-Suwayra”
  • Catalan: “Amogdul”
  • Catalan: “Es-Sueira”
  • Catalan: “Essaouira”
  • Catalan: “Mogador”
  • Catalan: “Mogdura”
  • Catalan: “Suwayra”
  • Cebuano: “Essaouira (kapital sa munisipyo)”
  • Cebuano: “Essaouira”
  • Chinese: “索維拉”
  • Chinese: “索维拉”
  • Croatian: “Esauira”
  • Croatian: “Essaouira”
  • Czech: “As-Sawíra”
  • Czech: “Mogador”
  • Danish: “Essaouira”
  • Dutch: “Essaouira”
  • Dutch: “Essaouria”
  • Dutch: “Mogador”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “الصويره”
  • Esperanto: “Esaŭiro”
  • Esperanto: “Medino de Esaŭiro”
  • Finnish: “Essaouira”
  • French: “Al-Suwayra”
  • French: “Essaouira”
  • French: “Magador”
  • French: “Mogador”
  • French: “Saouira”
  • Georgian: “ელ-სუვაირა”
  • Georgian: “ეს სუვეირა”
  • Georgian: “ეს-სუვეირა”
  • German: “as-Ṣawīra”
  • German: “As-Sawirah”
  • German: “Essaouira”
  • German: “Islas de Mogador”
  • German: “Mogador”
  • German: “Purpurinseln”
  • Greek: “Εσαουίρα”
  • Gujarati: “એસાઉઈરા”
  • Hausa: “Essaouira”
  • Hausa: “Gwaje-gwaje”
  • Hebrew: “אסואירה”
  • Hebrew: “מוגאדור”
  • Hebrew: “מוגדור”
  • Hindi: “एस्सवीरा”
  • Hungarian: “Szavíra”
  • Indonesian: “Essaouira”
  • Italian: “Essaouira”
  • Italian: “Essauira”
  • Italian: “Mogador”
  • Japanese: “エッサウィラ”
  • Japanese: “エッサウィラのメディナ（旧名モガドール）”
  • Japanese: “エッサウィラのメディナ”
  • Kabyle: “Amegdul”
  • Kabyle: “Amogdul”
  • Kabyle: “Mogador”
  • Kabyle: “Mugadur”
  • Kabyle: “Sswira”
  • Kannada: “ಎಸ್ಸೌರಿಯಾ”
  • Korean: “에사우이라”
  • Korean: “에사위라”
  • Ladino: “Essaouira”
  • Ladino: “Essauira”
  • Latvian: “Savīra”
  • Latvian: “Suveira”
  • Lithuanian: “Essaouira”
  • Lithuanian: “Savira”
  • Maithili: “एस्साउरा”
  • Malay: “Essaouira”
  • Maltese: “Essaouira”
  • Maltese: “Mogador”
  • Marathi: “एसाउइरा”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “الصويرة”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “موڭادور”
  • Nepali: “एस्साउरा”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Essaouira”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Mogador”
  • Norwegian: “Essaouira”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Essaoira”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Mogador”
  • Persian: “صویره”
  • Polish: “As-Sawira”
  • Polish: “As-Suwajra”
  • Polish: “Essaouira”
  • Polish: “Mogador”
  • Portuguese: “Essaouira”
  • Portuguese: “Essauira”
  • Portuguese: “Medina de Essaouira”
  • Portuguese: “Mogador”
  • Romanian: “Essaouira”
  • Russian: “Могадор”
  • Russian: “Эс-Сувейра”
  • Russian: “Эсауира”
  • Russian: “Эссуэйра”
  • Scots: “al-Sawira”
  • Scots: “aṣ-Ṣawīra”
  • Scots: “Essaouira”
  • Scots: “Mogador”
  • Scots: “Saouira”
  • Serbian: “Есаура”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Esauira”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Essaouira”
  • Sinhala: “එස්සාඔරියා”
  • Slovenian: “Essaouira”
  • Slovenian: “Mogador”
  • South Azerbaijani: “صویره”
  • Spanish: “Esauira”
  • Spanish: “Essaouira”
  • Spanish: “Mogador”
  • Spanish: “Mogadur”
  • Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⵎⵓⴳⴰⴷⵓⵔ”
  • Swahili: “Essaouira”
  • Swedish: “Es-Saouira”
  • Swedish: “Essaouira”
  • Swedish: “Mogador”
  • Swedish: “Souira”
  • Tachelhit: “Tassurt”
  • Tachelhit: “Taṣṣurt”
  • Tajik: “Эссауира”
  • Tamil: “எஸ்சாவோஉய்ரா”
  • Telugu: “ఎస్శౌయిరా”
  • Turkish: “Essaouira”
  • Turkish: “Suvayr”
  • Turkish: “Suveyre”
  • Ukrainian: “Ес-Сувейра”
  • Urdu: “صویرہ”
  • Vietnamese: “Essaouira”
  • Walloon: “Swira”
  • Welsh: “Essaouira”
  • Welsh: “Mogador”
  • Wu Chinese: “索维拉”
  • Yiddish: “מאגאדאר”
  • Yiddish: “עסואירע”

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