Middle Atlas
The Middle Atlas region of Morocco covers the mountain range as well as nearby cities such as Fez and Meknes.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Fez and Meknes.
Fez
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Fez is a city in Morocco famous for being home to the world's oldest university, dating to 859, and the world's oldest continuously-operating library, dating to 1359.
Meknes
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Meknes is a city in the Middle Atlas region of Morocco. Meknes is a vibrant, modern city bustling with nightlife, restaurants and an impressive imperial city created in the 17th century by King Moulay Ismaïl, with numerous historical monuments and natural sites; it is also the nearest city to the Roman ruins of Volubilis.
Ifrane
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Taza
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Taza is a city in northern Morocco occupying the corridor between the Rif mountains and Middle Atlas mountains, about 120 km east of Fez and 150 km south of Al Hoceima.
Moulay Idriss
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Moulay Idriss or Moulay Idriss Zerhoun is located north of Meknes and is considered the holiest city of Morocco.
Midelt
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Midelt is a town in Morocco, in the high plains between the Middle Atlas and High Atlas mountain ranges. With a population of 55,304 recorded in the 2014 Moroccan census, Midelt serves as the commercial center of a large agricultural hinterland.
Azrou
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Azrou is a mid-sized Berber town in the Ifrane National Park in the Middle Atlas.
M’Rirt
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M'rirt is a town in Khénifra Province, Béni Mellal-Khénifra, Morocco. According to the 2004 Moroccan census, it had a population of 35,196.
Itzer
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Itzer is a town in Midelt Province, Drâa-Tafilalet, Morocco. According to the 2004 census it has a population of 5947.
Zaouiate Oued Ifrane
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Zaouiate Oued Ifrane is a city in the Middle Atlas mountains of Morocco.
Middle Atlas
- Type: Mountain range
- Description: mountain range in Morocco
- Also known as: “Moyen Atlas”
- Category: region
- Location: Fez-Meknes, Morocco, North Africa, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude of center
33.557° or 33° 33′ 25″ northLongitude of center
-3.9° or 3° 54′ westElevation
1,921 metres (6,302 feet)OpenStreetMap ID
node 5132947021OpenStreetMap feature
natural=mountain_rangeGeoNames ID
2541692Wikidata ID
Q1433137
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Welsh—“Middle Atlas” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Sentraal-Atlas”
- Arabic: “الأطلس المتوسط”
- Arabic: “الاطلس المتوسط”
- Arabic: “جبال الأطلس المتوسط”
- Basque: “Atlas Ertaina”
- Bengali: “মধ্য অ্যাটলাস”
- Bulgarian: “Среден Атлас”
- Catalan: “Atles Mitjà”
- Cebuano: “Moyen Atlas”
- Chinese: “中阿特拉斯山脈”
- Czech: “Střední Atlas”
- Danish: “Mellematlas”
- Dutch: “Midden-Atlas”
- Esperanto: “Mez-Atlaso”
- Esperanto: “Meza Atlaso”
- French: “Moyen Atlas”
- French: “Moyen-Atlas”
- Georgian: “შუა ატლასი”
- German: “Mittlerer Atlas”
- Hausa: “Tsaunin Atlas”
- Hebrew: “אזור הרי האטלס התיכון”
- Indonesian: “Atlas Tengah”
- Italian: “Medio Atlante”
- Japanese: “ミドルアトラス山脈”
- Japanese: “モワヤンアトラス山脈”
- Japanese: “中央アトラス”
- Japanese: “中央アトラス山脈”
- Kabyle: “Aṭlas alemmas”
- Ladin: “Atlas Mesan”
- Lithuanian: “Vidurinis Atlasas”
- Moroccan Arabic: “لأطلس لمتوسط”
- Persian: “اطلس میانی”
- Polish: “Atlas Średni”
- Portuguese: “Atlas Médio”
- Portuguese: “Médio Atlas”
- Russian: “Средний Атлас”
- Slovak: “Stredný Atlas”
- Slovenian: “Srednji Atlas”
- Spanish: “Atlas Medio”
- Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⴰⵟⵍⴰⵙ ⴰⵏⴰⵎⵎⴰⵙ”
- Swedish: “Mellanatlas”
- Swedish: “Moyen Atlas”
- Tachelhit: “Aṭlas Anammas”
- Turkish: “Orta Atlas Dağları”
- Ukrainian: “Середній Атлас”
- Urdu: “اطلس متوسط”
- Venetian: “Medio Atlante”
- Walloon: “Mîtrin Atlasse”
- Walloon: “Moyinatlasse”
- Welsh: “Atlas Canol”
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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 “Middle Atlas”. Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.5.