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Tangier-Tetouan-Al Hoceima

Tangier

Tangier is an important port city in . The third most populous city in the country, it's a popular entry point to Morocco and Africa as a whole due to its proximity to , and an interesting destination in its own right.
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  • Type: City with 948,000 residents
  • Description: city in and capital of Tanger-Tetouan-Al Hoceima, Morocco
  • Also known as: “Tanger”, “Tánger”, “Tangeri”, “Tangiers”, “Ṭanja”, “Ṭanjah”, “Tingi”, “Tingis”, and “Tinigi”
Photo: H.alhajji, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Tangier-Kenitra high-speed railway and American Legation, Tangier.

Railway station
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is a railway station.

Museum
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The Tangier American Legation, officially the Tangier American Legation Institute for Moroccan Studies, is a building in the medina of Tangier, , that formerly housed the United States diplomatic mission to Morocco.

Church
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The Roman Catholic Cathedral of Tangier, whose full name is the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception and the Holy Spirit, also known as the Spanish Cathedral, is the seat of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Tangier, .

Tangier

Latitude
35.7696° or 35° 46′ 11″ north
Longitude
-5.8034° or 5° 48′ 12″ west
Population
948,000
Elevation
20 metres (66 feet)
IATA airport code
TNG
United Nations Location Code
MA TNG
Open location code
8C7PQ59W+VM
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1863747052
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2530335
Wiki­data ID
Q126148
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Yue Chinese—“Tangier” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Thanjah”
  • Afrikaans: “Tangier”
  • Arabic: “Tanger”
  • Arabic: “جماعة طنجة”
  • Arabic: “طنجة”
  • Arabic: “طنجه”
  • Aragonese: “Táncher”
  • Armenian: “Տանժեր”
  • Asturian: “Tánxer”
  • Azerbaijani: “Tanjer”
  • Basque: “Tanger”
  • Basque: “Tanjer”
  • Basque: “Tingis”
  • Belarusian: “Танжэр”
  • Belarusian: “Тынгіс”
  • Bengali: “তানজাহ”
  • Bengali: “তানজিয়ার”
  • Bosnian: “Tanger”
  • Breton: “Tanger”
  • Breton: “Tanjer”
  • Bulgarian: “Танжер”
  • Burmese: “တန်ဂျီးယားမြို့”
  • Catalan: “Tànger”
  • Catalan: “Tânger”
  • Catalan: “Tanja”
  • Catalan: “Tingis”
  • Cebuano: “Tanger-Assilah”
  • Chechen: “Танжер”
  • Chinese: “Tangier”
  • Chinese: “丹吉尔”
  • Chinese: “丹吉爾”
  • Chinese: “坦幾亞”
  • Chuvash: “Танжер”
  • Corsican: “Tangeri”
  • Corsican: “Tanghjeri”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Tancer”
  • Croatian: “Tanger”
  • Czech: “Tandža”
  • Czech: “Tanger”
  • Czech: “Tangier”
  • Danish: “Tanger”
  • Danish: “Tangier”
  • Dutch: “Tanger”
  • Dutch: “Tingis”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “طنجه”
  • Esperanto: “Tanger”
  • Esperanto: “Tanĝero”
  • Estonian: “Tanger”
  • Extremaduran: “Tangi”
  • Extremaduran: “Tanhel”
  • Finnish: “Tanger”
  • Finnish: “Tangier”
  • French: “Tanger”
  • French: “Tingis”
  • Galician: “Tánxer”
  • Georgian: “ტანჟერი”
  • German: “Tandscha”
  • German: “Tanger”
  • German: “Tingis”
  • Greek: “Ταγγέρη”
  • Greek: “Τανγκέρη”
  • Guarani: “Tánger”
  • Gujarati: “ટેંજિયર”
  • Hausa: “Tanja”
  • Hebrew: “טנג’יר”
  • Hindi: “टंगेर”
  • Hindi: “टैंजियर”
  • Hungarian: “Tanger”
  • Indonesian: “Tanger”
  • Indonesian: “Tangier”
  • Indonesian: “Thanjah”
  • Interlingua: “Tanger”
  • Irish: “Tangier”
  • Italian: “Tanger”
  • Italian: “Tangeri”
  • Italian: “Tingi”
  • Italian: “Tingis”
  • Japanese: “タンジール”
  • Japanese: “タンジェ”
  • Japanese: “ティンギス”
  • Kabyle: “Tin Iggi”
  • Kannada: “ಟ್ಯಾಂಜಿಯರ್”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Танжер”
  • Kazakh: “Tanjer qalası”
  • Kazakh: “Танжер қаласы”
  • Kazakh: “Танжер”
  • Kazakh: “تانجەر قالاسى”
  • Korean: “탕헤르”
  • Kurdish: “Tangier”
  • Kurdish: “Tence”
  • Ladino: “Tanjer”
  • Latin: “Tingis”
  • Latvian: “Tandža”
  • Latvian: “Tanžera”
  • Lithuanian: “Tanžeras”
  • Lombard: “Tanger”
  • Luxembourgish: “Tanger”
  • Macedonian: “Тангер”
  • Malay: “Tangier”
  • Malay: “Tanjah”
  • Malayalam: “Tangier”
  • Malayalam: “ടാൻജീർ”
  • Maltese: “Tanġeri”
  • Maltese: “Tangier”
  • Maltese: “Tanġier”
  • Marathi: “टँजियर”
  • Mingrelian: “ტანჟერი”
  • Moksha: “Танжэр”
  • Mongolian: “Танжер”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “طانجا”
  • Northern Frisian: “Tanger”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Tanger”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Tangier”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Tanger”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Tánger”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Tânger”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Tangier”
  • Norwegian: “Tanger”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Tànger”
  • Ossetian: “Танжер”
  • Papiamento: “Tanger”
  • Persian: “تانگیر”
  • Persian: “طنجة”
  • Persian: “طنجه”
  • Piemontese: “Tanger”
  • Polish: “Tandża”
  • Polish: “Tanger”
  • Polish: “Tangier”
  • Polish: “Tingis”
  • Portuguese: “Tanger”
  • Portuguese: “Tânger”
  • Portuguese: “Tanjer”
  • Portuguese: “Tingi”
  • Portuguese: “Tingis”
  • Portuguese: “Tíngis”
  • Portuguese: “Tyngy”
  • Romanian: “Tanger”
  • Russian: “Танжер”
  • Russian: “Тингис”
  • Sardinian: “Tangeri”
  • Scots: “Tangier”
  • Scots: “Tangiers”
  • Serbian: “Tanger”
  • Serbian: “Тангер”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Tanger”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Tanžer”
  • Shona: “Tangier”
  • Sicilian: “Tangeri”
  • Silesian: “Tanger”
  • Sinhala: “ටැන්ජයර්”
  • Slovenian: “Tanger”
  • South Azerbaijani: “طنجه”
  • Spanish: “Tanger”
  • Spanish: “Tánger”
  • Spanish: “Titga”
  • Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⵟⴰⵏⵊⴰ”
  • Swahili: “Tanger”
  • Swedish: “Tanger”
  • Swedish: “Tangier”
  • Swedish: “Tangiers”
  • Tachelhit: “Tanja”
  • Tachelhit: “Ṭanja”
  • Tagalog: “Tangher”
  • Tagalog: “Tangier”
  • Tajik: “Танҷа”
  • Tamil: “டன்கிஏர்”
  • Tatar: “Тәнҗә”
  • Telugu: “ట్యాంజియర్”
  • Thai: “แทนเกียร์”
  • Thai: “แทนเจียร์”
  • Turkish: “Tanca”
  • Turkish: “Tangier”
  • Twi: “Tanger”
  • Ukrainian: “Танжер”
  • Urdu: “طنجہ”
  • Uzbek: “Tanjer”
  • Venetian: “Tangeri”
  • Vietnamese: “Tangier”
  • Vlaams: “Tanger”
  • Walloon: “Tandjî”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Tangier”
  • Welsh: “Tanger”
  • Welsh: “Tangier”
  • Welsh: “Tangiers”
  • Western Frisian: “Tanger”
  • Wu Chinese: “丹吉尔”
  • Yiddish: “טאנזשיר”
  • Yue Chinese: “丹吉爾”

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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 “Tangier”. Photo: calflier001, CC BY-SA 2.0.