Morocco
North Atlantic Coast
Rabat-Salé-Kénitra

Rabat

Rabat, literally "Fortified Place", is the capital city of . The city of Rabat is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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  • Type: City with 1,650,000 residents
  • Description: capital city of Morocco
  • Also known as: “Rabbat”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Hassan’s Tower and Rabat Archaeological Museum.

Photo: PetarM, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Hassan Tower or Tour Hassan; is the minaret of an incomplete in Rabat, . It was commissioned by Abu Yusuf Yaqub al-Mansur, the third caliph of the Almohad Caliphate, near the end of the 12th century.

Museum
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The Museum of History and Civilizations is an archaeological museum in Rabat, . Opened in 1932, it contains the most extensive collection of archaeological artifacts found in the country.

Church
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Holy Resurrection Church in Rabat is the oldest of three functioning Orthodox churches in . It is under the jurisdiction of the .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Touarga and Kasbah of the Udayas.

Town
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is a town.

Village
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The , also spelled Kasbah of the Oudaias or of the Oudayas, is a in Rabat, . It is located on a hill at the mouth of the opposite , and adjacent to the Medina quarter of Rabat.

Rabat

Latitude
34.0218° or 34° 1′ 19″ north
Longitude
-6.8409° or 6° 50′ 27″ west
Population
1,650,000
Elevation
46 metres (151 feet)
IATA airport code
RBA
United Nations Location Code
MA RBA
Open location code
8C6M25C5+PJ
Open­Street­Map ID
node 299120862
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2538475
Wiki­data ID
Q3551
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Zulu—“Rabat” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Rabat”
  • Afrikaans: “Rabat”
  • Albanian: “Rabati”
  • Amharic: “ራባት”
  • Arabic: “الرباط”
  • Arabic: “جماعة الرباط”
  • Arabic: “رباط الفتح”
  • Arabic: “رباط”
  • Aragonese: “Rabat”
  • Armenian: “Ռաբաթ”
  • Armenian: “Ռաբատ”
  • Asturian: “Rabat”
  • Azerbaijani: “Rabat”
  • Balinese: “Rabat”
  • Bashkir: “Рабат”
  • Basque: “Rabat”
  • Belarusian: “Рабат”
  • Bengali: “রাবাত”
  • Bosnian: “Rabat”
  • Breton: “Rabat”
  • Bulgarian: “Рабат”
  • Catalan: “Rabat”
  • Cebuano: “Rabat (ulohang dakbayan)”
  • Cebuano: “Rabat”
  • Central Kurdish: “ڕەبات”
  • Chavacano: “Rabat”
  • Chechen: “Рабат”
  • Chinese: “Rabat”
  • Chinese: “拉巴特”
  • Chuvash: “Рабат”
  • Cornish: “Rabat”
  • Croatian: “Rabat”
  • Czech: “rabat”
  • Czech: “Rabat”
  • Dagbani: “Rabat”
  • Dagbani: “Rabbat”
  • Danish: “Rabat”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Rebat”
  • Dutch: “Rabat”
  • Eastern Mari: “Рабат”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “الرباط”
  • Esperanto: “Rabato”
  • Estonian: “Rabat”
  • Ewe: “Rabat”
  • Ewe: “Rabbat”
  • Extremaduran: “Rabat”
  • Fanti: “Rabat”
  • Fanti: “Rabbat”
  • Farefare: “Rabat”
  • Farefare: “Rabbat”
  • Faroese: “Rabat (Marokko)”
  • Faroese: “Rabat”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Rabat”
  • Finnish: “Rabat”
  • French: “Rabat”
  • French: “Rabbat”
  • Ga: “Rabat”
  • Ga: “Rabbat”
  • Galician: “Rabat”
  • Georgian: “რაბატი”
  • German: “Rabat”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Rabat”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Rabbat”
  • Greek: “Ραμπάτ”
  • Guarani: “Rabat”
  • Gujarati: “રબાટ”
  • Haitian: “Raba”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Rabat”
  • Hausa: “Rabat”
  • Hausa: “Rabbat”
  • Hebrew: “רבאט”
  • Hindi: “रबात”
  • Hindi: “रब्बात”
  • Hungarian: “Rabat”
  • Icelandic: “Rabat”
  • Ido: “Rabat”
  • Igbo: “Rabat”
  • Igbo: “Rabbat”
  • Inari Sami: “Rabat”
  • Indonesian: “Rabat”
  • Interlingua: “Rabat”
  • Interlingue: “Rabat”
  • Irish: “Rabat”
  • Italian: “Rabat”
  • Japanese: “ラバト”
  • Javanese: “Rabat”
  • Kabiyè: “Raabaa”
  • Kabyle: “Rbaṭ”
  • Kannada: “ರಬಾಟ್”
  • Kazakh: “Рабат (қала)”
  • Kazakh: “Рабат қаласы”
  • Kazakh: “Рабат”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Rabat”
  • Kirghiz: “Рабат”
  • Komering: “Rabat”
  • Kongo: “Rabat”
  • Korean: “라바트”
  • Kotava: “Ribat”
  • Kurdish: “Rabat”
  • Kurdish: “Rebat”
  • Kusaal: “Rabat”
  • Kusaal: “Rabbat”
  • Ladino: “Rabat”
  • Latin: “Oppidum Novum”
  • Latin: “Rabatum”
  • Latvian: “Rabāta”
  • Ligurian: “Rabat”
  • Lithuanian: “Rabatas”
  • Livvi: “Rabat”
  • Lombard: “Rabat”
  • Low German: “Rabat”
  • Luxembourgish: “Rabat”
  • Macedonian: “Рабат”
  • Maithili: “रबाट”
  • Malagasy: “Rabat”
  • Malay: “Rabat”
  • Malay: “رباط”
  • Malayalam: “റാബത്ത്”
  • Maltese: “Rabat”
  • Marathi: “रबात”
  • Mazanderani: “رباط”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Rabat”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Rabat”
  • Minangkabau: “Rabat”
  • Mingrelian: “რაბატი”
  • Moksha: “Рабат”
  • Mongolian: “Рабат”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “الرباط”
  • Mossi: “Rabat”
  • Mossi: “Rabbat”
  • N'Ko: “ߙߓߊ߫”
  • Navajo: “Tábąąhgóó Bineʼ Naʼadziʼii”
  • Nepali: “रबाट”
  • Nigerian Pidgin: “Rabat”
  • Nigerian Pidgin: “Rabbat”
  • Northern Frisian: “Rabat”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Rabat”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Rabat”
  • Norwegian: “Rabat”
  • Novial: “Rabat”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Rabat”
  • Oriya: “ରବୋଟ”
  • Ossetian: “Рабат”
  • Panjabi: “ਰਬਾਤ”
  • Papiamento: “Rabat”
  • Persian: “رباط”
  • Piemontese: “Rabat”
  • Polish: “Rabat”
  • Portuguese: “Rabat”
  • Pushto: “ربات”
  • Quechua: “Rabat”
  • Romanian: “Rabat”
  • Russian: “Рабат”
  • Sardinian: “Rabat”
  • Scots: “Rabat”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Rabat”
  • Serbian: “Рабат”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Rabat”
  • Shona: “Rabat”
  • Sicilian: “Rabat”
  • Silesian: “Rabat”
  • Sindhi: “رباط”
  • Sinhala: “රබාත්”
  • Slovak: “Rabat”
  • Slovenian: “Rabat”
  • Somali: “Rabat”
  • South Azerbaijani: “رباط (مراکش)”
  • South Azerbaijani: “رباط”
  • Southern Dagaare: “Rabat”
  • Southern Dagaare: “Rabbat”
  • Spanish: “Rabat”
  • Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⵕⵕⴱⴰⵟ”
  • Swahili: “Rabat”
  • Swedish: “Rabat (huvudstaden)”
  • Swedish: “Rabat”
  • Tachelhit: “Rbat”
  • Tachelhit: “Rrbaṭ”
  • Tagalog: “Rabat”
  • Tajik: “Рабат”
  • Talysh: “Rabat”
  • Tamil: “ரபாட்”
  • Tamil: “ரபாத்”
  • Telugu: “రాబట్”
  • Thai: “ราบัต”
  • Tibetan: “ར་བ་ཐེ།”
  • Turkish: “Rabat”
  • Turkmen: “Rabat”
  • Twi: “Rabat”
  • Twi: “Rabbat”
  • Udmurt: “Рабат”
  • Uighur: “رابات”
  • Ukrainian: “Рабат”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Rabat”
  • Urdu: “رباط”
  • Uzbek: “Rabot”
  • Venetian: “Rabat”
  • Veps: “Rabat”
  • Vietnamese: “Rabat”
  • Vlaams: “Rabat”
  • Volapük: “Ribat”
  • Wali (Ghana): “Rabat”
  • Wali (Ghana): “Rabbat”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Rabat”
  • Welsh: “Rabat”
  • Western Frisian: “Rabat”
  • Western Mari: “Рабат”
  • Western Panjabi: “رباط”
  • Wolof: “Rabat”
  • Wu Chinese: “拉巴特”
  • Yiddish: “ראבאט, מאראקא”
  • Yiddish: “ראבאט”
  • Yiddish: “ראַבאַט”
  • Yoruba: “Rabat”
  • Yoruba: “Rabbat”
  • Yue Chinese: “剌八”
  • Zeeuws: “Rabat”
  • Zulu: “i-Rabat”
  • “Rabat”
  • “Rabāt”
  • “Rabbat”

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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 “Rabat”. Photo: Nawalbennani, CC BY-SA 3.0.