Tarfaya
Tarfaya is a coastal Moroccan town, located at the level of Cape Juby, in western Morocco, on the Atlantic coast. It is located about 890 km southwest of the capital Rabat, and around 100 km from both Laayoune and Lanzarote, in the far east of the Canary Islands.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Photo: Ymblanter, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Town with 5,620 residents
- Description: City in Morocco
- Also known as: “Cabo Juby”, “Cabo Yubi”, “Talfaia”, and “Tarfaia”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Museum.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Museum
Museum
Photo: ElWaliElAlaoui, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Antoine de Saint Exupéry Museum is a museum of air mail in Tarfaya, Morocco. Founded in 2004, it is devoted to author and aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, who lived there for two years, from 1927 to 1929, and found there the inspiration for much of his literary work.
Tarfaya
- Categories: urban commune of Morocco and locality
- Location: Laâyoune Province, Laâyoune-Sakia El Hamra, Anti Atlas, Morocco, North Africa, Africa
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Latitude
27.9401° or 27° 56′ 24″ northLongitude
-12.925° or 12° 55′ 30″ westPopulation
5,620Elevation
5 metres (16 feet)United Nations Location Code
MA TFYOpen location code
7CV9W3RG+22OpenStreetMap ID
node 1038353027OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Urdu—“Tarfaya” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “جماعة طرفاية”
- Arabic: “رأس جوبي”
- Arabic: “راس جوبي”
- Arabic: “طرفاي”
- Arabic: “طرفاية”
- Arabic: “طرفايه”
- Basque: “Tarfaya”
- Catalan: “Tarfaya”
- Cebuano: “Tarfaya”
- Chinese: “塔尔法亚”
- Czech: “Tarfaja”
- Danish: “Tarfaya”
- Dutch: “Tarfaya”
- French: “Cap Juby”
- French: “Tarfaya”
- German: “Tarfaya”
- German: “TFY”
- German: “Villa Bens”
- Italian: “Tarfaya”
- Japanese: “タルファヤ”
- Lithuanian: “Tarfaja”
- Moroccan Arabic: “طرفاية”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Tarfaya”
- Norwegian: “Tarfaya”
- Persian: “طرفایه”
- Polish: “Port Victoria”
- Polish: “Tarfaja”
- Polish: “Tarfaya”
- Polish: “Villa Bens”
- Portuguese: “Tarfaya”
- Portuguese: “Villa Bens”
- Romanian: “Tarfaya”
- Russian: “Вилья-Бенс”
- Russian: “Кап-Джуби”
- Russian: “Тарфайя”
- Russian: “Тарфая”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Tarfaya”
- South Azerbaijani: “طرفایه”
- Spanish: “Tarfaya”
- Spanish: “Villa Bens”
- Swedish: “Tarfaya”
- Turkish: “Tarfaye”
- Ukrainian: “Вілья-Бенс”
- Ukrainian: “Мис Джубі”
- Ukrainian: “Мис Хубі”
- Ukrainian: “Тарфая”
- Urdu: “طرفایہ”
- “طرفاية (Tarfaya)”
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