Skoura
Skoura is a town in Ouarzazate Province, Drâa-Tafilalet, Saharan Morocco. It consists of a modern town as well as a historical oasis and palmeraie with traditional rammed-earth architecture.- Type: Town with 4,730 residents
- Description: human settlement
- Also known as: “Skoura des Ahl el Oust” and “Skoura ⵙⴽⵓⵔⴰ سكورة”
Skoura
- Categories: center and locality
- Location: Skoura, Ouarzazate Province, Drâa-Tafilalet, Saharan Morocco, Morocco, North Africa, Africa
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Latitude
31.0604° or 31° 3′ 38″ north
Longitude
-6.5576° or 6° 33′ 27″ west
Population
4,730
Elevation
1,226 metres (4,022 feet)
Open location code
8C3M3C6R+5X
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Swedish—“Skoura” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “المركز الحضري سكورة”
- Arabic: “سكورة”
- Arabic: “واحة سكورة”
- Catalan: “Skoura”
- Cebuano: “Skoura”
- Dutch: “Skoura”
- Egyptian Arabic: “واحة سكوره”
- French: “centre urbain de Skoura”
- French: “Skoura”
- German: “Skoura”
- Hindi: “स्कूरा”
- Italian: “Skoura”
- Persian: “سکوره”
- Portuguese: “Skoura”
- South Azerbaijani: “سکوره”
- Spanish: “Skoura”
- Swedish: “Skoura”
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