Morocco
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Marrakesh-Safi

Marrakech

Marrakech, also spelt Marrakesh, is one of the imperial cities of . Marrakech is the main tourist destination in Morocco. The city is divided into two parts: the Medina, the historical city, and the new European modern district called Gueliz or Ville Nouvelle.
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  • Type: City with 1,000,000 residents
  • Description: city in Marrakesh-Safi, Morocco
  • Also known as: “Maraksh”, “Marrakesh”, “Merrakex”, “Morocco City”, and “ⴰⵎⵓⵔⴰⴽⵓⵛ”
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Jemaa el-Fnaa and Majorelle Garden.

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, also Jemaa el-Fna, Djema el-Fna or Djemaa el-Fnaa, is a square and market place in the medina quarter of Marrakesh, Morocco. It remains the main square of Marrakesh, used by locals and tourists.

Park
Photo: Viault, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The is a one-hectare botanical garden and artist's landscape garden in Marrakesh, Morocco. It was created by the French Orientalist artist Jacques Majorelle over almost forty years, starting in 1923, and features a Cubist villa designed by French architect Paul Sinoir in the 1930s.

Ruins
The Almoravid Qubba, also known as the Qubbat al-Ba'diyyin or Qubbat al-Barudiyyin, is a small monument in Marrakesh, . It was erected by the Almoravid dynasty in the early 12th century.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include L’Hivernage.

Neighborhood
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is a neighborhood.

Marrakech

Latitude
31.6258° or 31° 37′ 33″ north
Longitude
-7.9892° or 7° 59′ 21″ west
Population
1,000,000
Elevation
457 metres (1,499 feet)
IATA airport code
RAK
United Nations Location Code
MA RAK
Open location code
8C3JJ2G6+88
Open­Street­Map ID
node 508040941
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2542997
Wiki­data ID
Q101625
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Zeeuws—“Marrakech” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Murrakusy”
  • Afrikaans: “Marrakesh”
  • Afrikaans: “Marrakesj”
  • Albanian: “Marakeshi”
  • Albanian: “Marrakesh”
  • Arabic: “الصحراء الشرقية المغربية”
  • Arabic: “المدينة الحمراء”
  • Arabic: “جماعة مراكش”
  • Arabic: “مدينة مراكش”
  • Arabic: “مراكش”
  • Aragonese: “Marráquex”
  • Armenian: “Մարաքեշ”
  • Asturian: “Marrakech”
  • Azerbaijani: “Mərrakeş”
  • Bashkir: “Марракеш”
  • Basque: “Marrakech”
  • Basque: “Marrakex”
  • Belarusian: “Маракеш”
  • Bengali: “মারাকেশ”
  • Bengali: “মারাক্কেশ”
  • Bosnian: “Marakeš”
  • Bosnian: “Marrakech”
  • Breton: “Marrakech”
  • Bulgarian: “Маракеш”
  • Burmese: “မာရကက်ရှ်မြို့”
  • Catalan: “Marrakech”
  • Catalan: “Marrakesh”
  • Catalan: “Marraqeix”
  • Catalan: “Marraqueix”
  • Catalan: “Marràqueix”
  • Cebuano: “Marrakesh”
  • Central Kurdish: “مەراکیش”
  • Chechen: “Марракеш”
  • Chinese: “馬拉喀什”
  • Chinese: “馬拉喀什老城區”
  • Chinese: “马拉喀什”
  • Chinese: “马拉柯什”
  • Chinese: “麥地那城”
  • Chuvash: “Марракеш”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Marakeş”
  • Croatian: “Marakeš”
  • Croatian: “Marrakech”
  • Croatian: “Marrakesh”
  • Czech: “Marakeš”
  • Czech: “Marakéš”
  • Czech: “Marákeš”
  • Czech: “Marrakech”
  • Czech: “Marrakeš”
  • Czech: “Marrakéš”
  • Czech: “Marrákeš”
  • Dagbani: “Marrakesh”
  • Danish: “Marrakech”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Merakeş (sûke)”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Merakeş”
  • Dutch: “Marakech”
  • Dutch: “Marrakech”
  • Dutch: “Marrakesh”
  • Dutch: “Marrakesj”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “مراكش”
  • Esperanto: “Marakeŝo”
  • Estonian: “Marrakech”
  • Estonian: “Marrakeš”
  • Estonian: “Marrakesh”
  • Finnish: “Marrakech”
  • Finnish: “Marrakesh”
  • French: “Marakech”
  • French: “Marrakech”
  • Galician: “Marrakech”
  • Galician: “مراكش”
  • Georgian: “მარაკეში”
  • Georgian: “მარაქეში”
  • German: “Marakesch”
  • German: “Marrakech”
  • German: “Marrakesch”
  • German: “Marrakesh”
  • Greek: “Μαρακές”
  • Greek: “Μαρρακές”
  • Greek: “Μαρράκες”
  • Guarani: “Marrakech”
  • Gujarati: “મારાકેશ”
  • Hausa: “Marrakesh”
  • Hebrew: “מרקש”
  • Hindi: “मराकेश”
  • Hungarian: “Marrákes”
  • Icelandic: “Marrakess”
  • Ido: “Marakesh”
  • Inari Sami: “Marrakech”
  • Indonesian: “Marrakech”
  • Indonesian: “Marrakesh”
  • Interlingua: “Marrakech”
  • Interlingue: “Marrakesh”
  • Irish: “Marrakech”
  • Irish: “Marrakesh”
  • Italian: “Marrakech”
  • Italian: “Marrakesh”
  • Italian: “Marrakush”
  • Japanese: “マラーケシュ”
  • Japanese: “マラケーシェ”
  • Japanese: “マラケシュ”
  • Japanese: “マラケシ旧市街”
  • Japanese: “マラケッシュ”
  • Kabyle: “Amurakuc”
  • Kabyle: “Merrakec”
  • Kadazan Dusun: “Marrakesh”
  • Kannada: “ಮಾರಕೇಶ್”
  • Kazakh: “Marrakeş qalası”
  • Kazakh: “Марракеш қаласы”
  • Kazakh: “Марракеш”
  • Kazakh: “مارراكەش قالاسى”
  • Kirghiz: “Марракеш”
  • Korean: “마라케시”
  • Kurdish: “Marakeş”
  • Kurdish: “Merakeş”
  • Kurdish: “ماراکەش”
  • Ladino: “Marrakesh”
  • Latin: “Marrakech”
  • Latin: “Marrochium”
  • Latvian: “Marakeša”
  • Latvian: “Marrākeša”
  • Lithuanian: “Marakešas”
  • Low German: “Marrakesch”
  • Luxembourgish: “Marrakesch”
  • Macedonian: “Маракеш”
  • Maithili: “मर्राकेशक मदिना”
  • Malay: “Marrakesh”
  • Malay: “مراكش”
  • Malayalam: “Marrakech”
  • Malayalam: “മരാക്കേഷ്”
  • Maltese: “Marrakech”
  • Maltese: “Marrakesh”
  • Maltese: “Marrakexx”
  • Manx: “Marrakech”
  • Manx: “Marrakesh”
  • Marathi: “माराकेश”
  • Mingrelian: “მარაქეში”
  • Moksha: “Марракэш”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “مراكش”
  • Nepali: “मर्राकेशको मदिना”
  • Northern Frisian: “Marrakesch”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Marakesh”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Marrakech”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Marrakesch”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Marrakesh”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Marrakech”
  • Norwegian: “Marrakech”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Marraquèsh”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Marràquoch”
  • Ossetian: “Марракеш”
  • Panjabi: “ਮਰਾਕਿਸ਼”
  • Persian: “مراکش”
  • Polish: “Marakesz”
  • Polish: “Marrakech”
  • Polish: “Marrakesz”
  • Polish: “Marrakusz”
  • Portuguese: “Marrakech”
  • Portuguese: “Marrakesh”
  • Portuguese: “Marraqueche”
  • Portuguese: “Marraquesh”
  • Portuguese: “Marraquexe”
  • Portuguese: “Marráquexe”
  • Romanian: “Maracheș”
  • Romanian: “Marrakech”
  • Romanian: “Marrakesh”
  • Russian: “Маракеш”
  • Russian: “Марракеш эль Гамра”
  • Russian: “Марракеш”
  • Russian: “Морокко”
  • Samogitian: “Marakešos”
  • Santali: “ᱢᱟᱨᱨᱟᱠᱮᱥ”
  • Scots: “Marrakech”
  • Scots: “Murakush”
  • Serbian: “Marakeš”
  • Serbian: “Маракаш”
  • Serbian: “Маракеш”
  • Serbian: “Мерекеш”
  • Serbian: “مراكش”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Marakeš”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Marrakech”
  • Shona: “Marrakesh”
  • Sicilian: “Marrakech”
  • Silesian: “Marrakesz”
  • Sinhala: “මරකෙෂ්”
  • Slovak: “Marakeš”
  • Slovak: “Marrákeš”
  • Slovak: “Murrákuš”
  • Slovenian: “Marakeš”
  • South Azerbaijani: “مراکش (شهر)”
  • South Azerbaijani: “مراکش”
  • Spanish: “Marrakech”
  • Spanish: “Marrakesh”
  • Spanish: “Marraquech”
  • Spanish: “Marraquesh”
  • Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⵎⵕⵕⴰⴽⵛ”
  • Swahili: “Marakesh”
  • Swedish: “Marakech”
  • Swedish: “Marakesh”
  • Swedish: “Marrakech (regionhuvudort)”
  • Swedish: “Marrakech”
  • Swedish: “Marrakesch”
  • Swedish: “Marrakesh”
  • Swedish: “Marrakish”
  • Swedish: “Marrākish”
  • Tachelhit: “Mrrakc”
  • Tagalog: “Marrakesh”
  • Tajik: “Марокаш”
  • Tamil: “மரராகேஷ்”
  • Telugu: “మరాకేశ్”
  • Thai: “มาร์ราคิช”
  • Turkish: “Marakeş”
  • Turkish: “Marrakech”
  • Turkish: “Merakeş”
  • Twi: “Marrakech”
  • Ukrainian: “Марракеш”
  • Urdu: “شہر مراکش”
  • Urdu: “مراکش شہر”
  • Urdu: “مراکش”
  • Uzbek: “Marokash”
  • Venetian: “Marrakech”
  • Vietnamese: “Marrakech”
  • Vietnamese: “Marrakesh”
  • Vlaams: “Marrakesh”
  • Walloon: “Marakech”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Marrakech”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Marrakesh”
  • Welsh: “Marrakech”
  • Welsh: “Marrakesh”
  • Western Armenian: “Մարաքէշ”
  • Western Frisian: “Marrakesj”
  • Western Panjabi: “مراکش (شہر)”
  • Western Panjabi: “مراکش”
  • Wu Chinese: “马拉喀什”
  • Yiddish: “מאראקעש”
  • Yue Chinese: “馬拉喀什”
  • Zeeuws: “Marrakesh”
  • “Marakešos”

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