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Maghreb

The Maghreb is a region in . The term originated in the days of Islam's great expansion. Al-Maghrib is 's official name, and also means 'the west' in Arabic.
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  • Type: region with 101,000,000 residents
  • Description: part of North Africa
  • Also known as: “Al-Maghrib al-Arabi”, “Al-Maghrib al-Kabir”, and “Arab Maghreb”

Maghreb

Latitude of center
29.3° or 29° 18′ north
Longitude of center
5.4° or 5° 24′ east
Population
101,000,000
Wiki­data ID
Q28227
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Maghreb” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Atlasstreek”
  • Afrikaans: “Maghreb”
  • Afrikaans: “Magreb”
  • Albanian: “Magrebi”
  • Arabic: “المغارب”
  • Arabic: “المغاربية”
  • Arabic: “المغرب العربي”
  • Arabic: “المغرب الكبير”
  • Arabic: “المنطقة المغاربية”
  • Arabic: “بلاد المغرب العربي”
  • Arabic: “بلاد المغرب”
  • Arabic: “بلدان المغرب العربي”
  • Arabic: “دول المغرب العربي”
  • Arabic: “مغرب عربي”
  • Arabic: “منطقة مغاربية”
  • Armenian: “Ալ Մաղրեբ”
  • Armenian: “Ալ Մաղրիբ”
  • Armenian: “Ալ-Մաղրեբ”
  • Armenian: “Ալ-Մաղրիբ”
  • Armenian: “Մաղրեբ”
  • Armenian: “Մաղրիբ”
  • Armenian: “Մաղրիբի երկրներ”
  • Armenian: “Մաղրիբյան երկրներ”
  • Arpitan: “Magreb”
  • Arpitan: “Magrèbo”
  • Asturian: “Magreb”
  • Azerbaijani: “Məğrib”
  • Bashkir: “Мәғриб”
  • Basque: “Magreb”
  • Belarusian: “Магрыб”
  • Belarusian: “Сцяг Саюза арабскага Магрыба”
  • Bengali: “আরব মাগরেব”
  • Bengali: “মাগরেব”
  • Bosnian: “Magreb”
  • Bosnian: “Magrib”
  • Breton: “Maghreb”
  • Breton: “Maghrib”
  • Bulgarian: “Ал-Магреб”
  • Bulgarian: “Магреб”
  • Bulgarian: “Магриб”
  • Bulgarian: “Северозападна Африка”
  • Catalan: “Àfrica Nord-occidental”
  • Catalan: “El Magreb”
  • Catalan: “El Magrib”
  • Catalan: “Maghreb”
  • Catalan: “Maghrib”
  • Catalan: “Magreb”
  • Catalan: “Magrib”
  • Catalan: “Màgrib”
  • Catalan: “Tamazgha”
  • Central Kurdish: “مەغریبی عەرەبی”
  • Chinese: “Maghreb”
  • Chinese: “摩鄰國”
  • Chinese: “西北非洲”
  • Chinese: “馬格里布”
  • Chinese: “马格里布”
  • Croatian: “Magreb”
  • Czech: “Maghreb”
  • Czech: “Magreb”
  • Danish: “Al-Maghreb”
  • Danish: “Al-Maghrib”
  • Danish: “Maghreb”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Meğrib”
  • Dutch: “Maghreb”
  • Dutch: “Magreb”
  • Dutch: “Magrib”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “المغرب العربى”
  • Esperanto: “Araba Magreba Unio”
  • Esperanto: “Magrebo”
  • Estonian: “Magrib”
  • Finnish: “Maghreb”
  • French: “Al-Maghreb Al-Arabi”
  • French: “Grand Maghreb”
  • French: “Maghreb arabe”
  • French: “Maghreb”
  • French: “Maghrébines”
  • French: “pays du Maghreb”
  • French: “Petit Maghreb”
  • Galician: “Maghreb”
  • Galician: “Magreb”
  • Galician: “Magrebe”
  • Georgian: “მაღრიბი”
  • German: “Al-Maghrib”
  • German: “Maghreb-Länder”
  • German: “Maghreb”
  • German: “Maghrebländer”
  • German: “Maghrebstaaten”
  • German: “Maghrib”
  • German: “Magreb”
  • Greek: “Μαγκρέμπ”
  • Greek: “Μάγκρεμπ”
  • Guarani: “Mageréve”
  • Hebrew: “המגרב”
  • Hebrew: “מגרב”
  • Hindi: “मग़रेब”
  • Hungarian: “Maghreb”
  • Hungarian: “Maghrib”
  • Hungarian: “Magreb”
  • Hungarian: “Magrib”
  • Icelandic: “Maghreb”
  • Icelandic: “Magreb”
  • Ido: “Magreb”
  • Iloko: “Magreb”
  • Indonesian: “Arab Maghreb”
  • Indonesian: “Arab Maghrib”
  • Indonesian: “Arab Magrib”
  • Indonesian: “Maghreb”
  • Irish: “an Mhagraib”
  • Irish: “An Mhagraib”
  • Italian: “Africa mediterranea”
  • Italian: “Africa nord-occidentale”
  • Italian: “Al-Maghreb”
  • Italian: “Maghreb”
  • Italian: “Magreb”
  • Italian: “Magrebino”
  • Japanese: “マグリブ”
  • Japanese: “マグリブ地方”
  • Japanese: “マグレブ”
  • Javanese: “Maghribi”
  • Kabyle: “Tamazɣa”
  • Kazakh: “Мағриб”
  • Kazakh: “Мағрип”
  • Kirghiz: “Магриб”
  • Kongo: “Magribia”
  • Korean: “마그레브 민족”
  • Korean: “마그레브”
  • Korean: “마그리브”
  • Korean: “머그레브”
  • Kurdish: “Maxrêb”
  • Kurdish: “Maxrib”
  • Kurdish: “Maxrîb”
  • Kurdish: “Maxrîbî”
  • Kurdish: “Mexrib”
  • Ladino: “Maghreb”
  • Ladino: “Magreb”
  • Ladino: “Tamazgha”
  • Latin: “Barbaria”
  • Latin: “Maghreb”
  • Latin: “Maghrebia”
  • Latvian: “Magreba”
  • Latvian: “Magrebs”
  • Latvian: “Magriba”
  • Latvian: “Magribs”
  • Lithuanian: “Magrebas”
  • Lithuanian: “Magribas”
  • Macedonian: “Магреб”
  • Malagasy: “Magreba”
  • Malay: “Maghreb”
  • Maltese: “Magreb”
  • Marathi: “माघरेब”
  • Mingrelian: “მაღრიბი”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “لمغرب لكبير”
  • Navajo: “Ghą́ą́ʼaskʼidii Biłikahii Bikéyah (Ałtsʼáʼáztiin)”
  • Navajo: “Ghą́ą́ʼaskʼidii Biłikahii Bikéyah”
  • Northern Frisian: “Maghreb”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Al-Maghrib”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Maghreb”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Maghrib”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Maghreb”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Magreb”
  • Norwegian: “Maghreb”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Magrèb”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Maugrabin”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Maugrabina”
  • Ossetian: “Магриб”
  • Ossetian: “Магъриб”
  • Panjabi: “ਮਗ਼ਰਿਬ”
  • Papiamento: “Maghreb”
  • Persian: “مغرب عربی”
  • Polish: “Maghreb”
  • Portuguese: “África menor”
  • Portuguese: “Maghreb”
  • Portuguese: “Magreb”
  • Portuguese: “Magrebe”
  • Portuguese: “Mahgreb”
  • Portuguese: “Noroeste da África”
  • Portuguese: “Região do Maghreb”
  • Romanian: “Maghreb”
  • Romanian: “Magreb”
  • Russian: “Ал-Магриб”
  • Russian: “Магриб”
  • Russian: “Флаг Союза арабского Магриба”
  • Russian: “Эмблема Союза арабского Магриба”
  • Rusyn: “Маґреб”
  • Sardinian: “Magreb”
  • Serbian: “MAGREB”
  • Serbian: “Магреб”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Magreb”
  • Sicilian: “Maghreb”
  • Sicilian: “Maghrib”
  • Sicilian: “Magreb”
  • Slovenian: “Magreb”
  • Somali: “Magrib”
  • Spanish: “El Magreb”
  • Spanish: “Maghreb”
  • Spanish: “Magreb”
  • Spanish: “Mágreb”
  • Spanish: “Magrebi”
  • Spanish: “Magrebí”
  • Spanish: “Mogreb”
  • Swahili: “Maghreb”
  • Swahili: “Maghrib”
  • Swedish: “Maghreb”
  • Tachelhit: “Tamazɣa”
  • Tachelhit: “Tammazɣa”
  • Tagalog: “Maghreb”
  • Tagalog: “Maghrib”
  • Tagalog: “Magreb”
  • Tajik: “Мағриб”
  • Tamil: “மக்ரிபு”
  • Tatar: “Мәгъриб”
  • Thai: “อัลมัฆริบ”
  • Turkish: “Magrip”
  • Turkish: “Mağrip”
  • Ukrainian: “Ал-Магреб”
  • Ukrainian: “Ал-Магріб”
  • Ukrainian: “Магреб”
  • Ukrainian: “Магриб”
  • Ukrainian: “Магріб”
  • Ukrainian: “Тамазга”
  • Urdu: “افریقہ کوچک”
  • Urdu: “المغرب العربی”
  • Urdu: “المغرب”
  • Urdu: “بربرستان”
  • Uzbek: “Mag‘rib”
  • Uzbek: “Mag’rib”
  • Uzbek: “Mag`rib”
  • Uzbek: “Magʻrib”
  • Venetian: “Maghreb”
  • Vietnamese: “Maghreb”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Maghreb”
  • Welsh: “Maghreb”
  • Western Frisian: “Magreb”
  • Western Frisian: “Magrib”
  • Western Panjabi: “المغرب”
  • Wolof: “Maghreb”
  • Wu Chinese: “马格里不”
  • Yoruba: “Maghreb”
  • Yue Chinese: “西北非洲”
  • “Maghreb”

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