Saharan Morocco
Drâa-Tafilalet
Zagora Province

M’Hamid

M'Hamid is a small village in region of , 98 km after Zagora, one of the two places in Morocco where Sahara begins. It is "the end of the road", after it is only sands of , shepherds and caravan trails.
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  • Type: Village with 10,000 residents
  • Description: human settlement
  • Also known as: “M Hamid El Ghizlane” and “M’Hamid El Ghizlane”
Photo: ArishG, CC BY-SA 3.0.

M’Hamid

Latitude
29.8273° or 29° 49′ 38″ north
Longitude
-5.7239° or 5° 43′ 26″ west
Population
10,000
Elevation
550 metres (1,804 feet)
Open location code
7CXPR7GG+WC
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1001313724
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
2565267
Wiki­data ID
Q1014625
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Swedish—“M’Hamid” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “امحاميد الغزلان”
  • Arabic: “جماعة امحاميد الغزلان”
  • Arabic: “محاميد الغزلان”
  • Bulgarian: “Мхамид”
  • Catalan: “M’Hamid El Ghizlane”
  • Cebuano: “M Hamid El Ghizlane”
  • Dutch: “M’Hamid El Ghizlane”
  • French: “M’Hamid Bali”
  • French: “M’Hamid El Ghizlane”
  • French: “M’Hamid Jdid”
  • French: “M’hamid-el-Ghizlane”
  • French: “Mhamid el Ghizlane”
  • French: “Taragalte”
  • German: “M’hamid El Ghizlane”
  • Italian: “M’Hamid El Ghizlane”
  • Japanese: “マアミド”
  • Lithuanian: “Mhamidas”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “محاميد لغزلان”
  • Polish: “Amhamid al-Ghizlan”
  • Polish: “M’hamid”
  • Polish: “Mahamid”
  • Polish: “Mhamid”
  • Portuguese: “M’hamid el Ghizlane”
  • Portuguese: “M’hamid”
  • Portuguese: “M’Hamid”
  • Portuguese: “Mhamid el Ghizlane”
  • Portuguese: “Mhamid”
  • Russian: “Мухаммед (Марокко)”
  • Russian: “Мухаммед”
  • Russian: “Мхамид-эль-Гизлане”
  • Russian: “Мхамид”
  • Spanish: “M’Hamid El Ghizlane”
  • Swedish: “M’Hamid El Ghizlane”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “M’Hamid”. Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.