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: “Africa mediterranea”, “África menor”, “Àfrica Nord-occidental”, “Africa nord-occidentale”, “Al-Maghreb”, “Al-Maghrib”, “Arab Maghreb”, “Arab Magrib”, “Araba Magreba Unio”, “Atlasstreek”, “Barbary”, “Berbérie”, “Berberland”, “Berbery”, “El Magreb”, “Mag‘rib”, “Mag’rib”, “Mag`rib”, “Maghreb-Länder”, “Maghrebia”, “Maghrebländer”, “Maghrebstaaten”, “MAGREB”, “Mágreb”, “Magrebas”, “Magrebí”, “Magrebino”, “Magrebs”, “Màgrib”, “Magribs”, “Magrip”, “Mahgreb”, “Maugrabin”, “Maugrabina”, “Maxrêb”, “Maxrib”, “Maxrîb”, “Maxrîbî”, “Mogreb”, “Noroeste da África”, “Região do Maghreb”, “Tamazgha”, “The Maghreb”, “Μάγκρεμπ”, “Ал-Магреб”, “Ал-Магриб”, “Ал-Магріб”, “Магріб”, “Северозападна Африка”, “Сцяг Саюза арабскага Магрыба”, “Тамазга”, “Флаг Союза арабского Магриба”, “Эмблема Союза арабского Магриба”, “Ալ Մաղրեբ”, “Ալ Մաղրիբ”, “Ալ-Մաղրեբ”, “Ալ-Մաղրիբ”, “Մաղրեբ”, “Մաղրիբի երկրներ”, “Մաղրիբյան երկրներ”, “המגרב”, “افریقہ کوچک”, “المغارب”, “المغرب الكبير”, “المنطقة المغاربية”, “بربرستان”, “بلاد البربر”, “بلاد المغرب”, “تامزغا”, “تامزغة”, “ليبيا”, “مغرب کبیر”, “ⵜⴰⵎⴰⵣⵖⴰ”, “আরব মাগরেব”, “마그레브 민족”, “마그리브”, “머그레브”, “アル＝マグリブ”, “マグリブ地方”, “マグリブ諸国”, “マグレブ”, “マグレブ地方”, “マグレブ諸国”, and “摩鄰國”

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: “Magreb”
  • Albanian: “Magrebi”
  • Arabic: “المغرب العربي”
  • Armenian: “Մաղրիբ”
  • Arpitan: “Magreb”
  • Arpitan: “Magrèbo”
  • Asturian: “Magreb”
  • Azerbaijani: “Məğrib”
  • Bashkir: “Мәғриб”
  • Basque: “Magreb”
  • Belarusian: “Магрыб”
  • Bengali: “মাগরেব”
  • Bosnian: “Magrib”
  • Breton: “Maghreb”
  • Bulgarian: “Магреб”
  • Catalan: “El Magrib”
  • Catalan: “Magrib”
  • Central Kurdish: “مەغریبی عەرەبی”
  • Chinese: “馬格里布”
  • Chinese: “马格里布”
  • Croatian: “Magreb”
  • Czech: “Maghreb”
  • Danish: “Maghreb”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Meğrib”
  • Dutch: “Maghreb”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “المغرب العربى”
  • Esperanto: “Magrebo”
  • Estonian: “Magrib”
  • Finnish: “Maghreb”
  • French: “Maghreb”
  • Galician: “Maghreb”
  • Galician: “Magreb”
  • Georgian: “მაღრიბი”
  • German: “Maghreb”
  • Greek: “Μαγκρέμπ”
  • Guarani: “Mageréve”
  • Haitian: “Maghreb”
  • Hebrew: “מגרב”
  • Hindi: “मग़रिब”
  • Hindi: “मग़रेब”
  • Hungarian: “Magreb”
  • Icelandic: “Maghreb”
  • Ido: “Magreb”
  • Ido: “Magrebo”
  • Iloko: “Magreb”
  • Indonesian: “Arab Maghrib”
  • Indonesian: “Maghreb”
  • Irish: “an Mhagraib”
  • Irish: “An Mhagraib”
  • Italian: “Maghreb”
  • Japanese: “マグリブ”
  • Javanese: “Maghribi”
  • Kabyle: “Tamazɣa”
  • Kazakh: “Мағриб”
  • Kazakh: “Мағрип”
  • Kirghiz: “Магриб”
  • Kongo: “Magribia”
  • Korean: “마그레브”
  • Kurdish: “Mexrib”
  • Ladino: “Maghreb”
  • Latin: “Barbaria”
  • Latvian: “Magriba”
  • 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: “Maghreb”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Maghreb”
  • Norwegian: “Maghreb”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Magrèb”
  • Ossetian: “Магъриб”
  • Ottoman Turkish (1500-1928): “مغرب”
  • Panjabi: “ਮਗ਼ਰਿਬ”
  • Papiamento: “Maghreb”
  • Persian: “مغرب عربی”
  • Persian: “مغرب”
  • Picard: “Maghreb”
  • Polish: “Maghreb”
  • Portuguese: “Magrebe”
  • Romanian: “Maghreb”
  • Romanian: “Magreb”
  • Russian: “Магриб”
  • Rusyn: “Маґреб”
  • Sardinian: “Magreb”
  • Serbian: “Магреб”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Magreb”
  • Sicilian: “Maghreb”
  • Sindhi: “المغرب”
  • Slovenian: “Magreb”
  • Somali: “Magrib”
  • Spanish: “Magreb”
  • Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⵜⴰⵎⵎⴰⵣⵖⴰ”
  • Swahili: “Maghrib”
  • Swedish: “Maghreb”
  • Tachelhit: “Tammazɣa”
  • Tagalog: “Magreb”
  • Tajik: “Мағриб”
  • Tamil: “மக்ரிபு”
  • Tatar: “Мәгъриб”
  • Thai: “อัลมัฆริบ”
  • Turkish: “Mağrip”
  • Ukrainian: “Магриб”
  • Urdu: “المغرب العربی”
  • Urdu: “المغرب”
  • 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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