Saidia

Saïdia, known as the "Blue Pearl", is a coastal town in northeastern Morocco. It is located in the Berkane Province in the north of Beni Znassen region, lying in the adjacent metropolitan area of Berkane itself, along the Mediterranean Sea to the north and Moroccan-Algerian border to the east.
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  • Type: Town with 18,000 residents
  • Description: Moroccan town located in the Eastern Rif in the Beni Mansour region
  • Also known as: “Blue Pearl”, “La perle bleue”, “Perla blu del Mediterraneo”, “Saïda”, “Saïdia”, “Saīdia”, “Saïdia du Kiss”, “Saïdia ⵙⵄⵉⴷⵉⵢⴰ السعيدية”, “السعيديه”, “جماعة السعيدية”, and “سعيدية”

Places of Interest

Highlights: Abdelhamid Ben Badis Mosque.

Mosque
Photo: Riad Salih, CC BY 4.0.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Marsa Ben M’Hidi.

Town
Photo: Riad Salih, CC BY 4.0.
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Saidia

Latitude
35.0822° or 35° 4′ 56″ north
Longitude
-2.2246° or 2° 13′ 29″ west
Population
18,000
Elevation
4 metres (13 feet)
UN/LOCODE
MA ZSA
Open location code
8C7V3QJG+V5
Open­Street­Map ID
node 391544955
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2537802
Wiki­data ID
Q4759
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yiddish—“Saidia” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “السعيدية”
  • Breton: “Saidia”
  • Bulgarian: “Саидиа”
  • Catalan: “Saidia”
  • Catalan: “Saïdia”
  • Cebuano: “Saidia”
  • Czech: “Saidia”
  • Czech: “Saídíja”
  • Dutch: “Saïdia”
  • French: “Saïdia”
  • German: “Saida”
  • German: “Saidia”
  • Hebrew: “סעידיה”
  • Italian: “Saidia”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “السعيدية”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Saïdia”
  • Polish: “Saïdia”
  • Portuguese: “Saïdia”
  • Russian: “Саидия”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Saïdia”
  • Spanish: “Saidia”
  • Spanish: “Saidía”
  • Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⵙⴰⵢⴷⵉⴰ”
  • Swedish: “Saïdia”
  • Urdu: “سیدہ”
  • Yiddish: “סעידיה”

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