Marrakech

Marrakech, also spelt Marrakesh, is one of the imperial cities of . Marrakech is the main tourist destination in Morocco. The city is divided into two parts: the Medina, the historical city, and the new European modern district called Gueliz or Ville Nouvelle.
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  • Type: City with 1,000,000 residents
  • Description: city in Marrakesh-Safi, Morocco
  • Also known as: “Maracheș”, “Marakéš”, “Marákeš”, “Marakeša”, “Marakesch”, “Marakesz”, “Maraksh”, “Marrakech (regionhuvudort)”, “Marrakech ⵎⵕⵕⴰⴽⵯⵛ مراكش”, “Marrakeš”, “Marrakéš”, “Marrakesh”, “Marrakexx”, “Marrakish”, “Marrākish”, “Marrakush”, “Marrakusz”, “Marraqeix”, “Marraquech”, “Marraqueche”, “Marraqueix”, “Marraquesh”, “Marráquexe”, “Merrakex”, “Mərrakuş”, “Morocco City”, “Murakush”, “Μαρρακές”, “Μαρράκες”, “Маракаш”, “Марракеш эль Гамра”, “Мерекеш”, “Морокко”, “المدينة الحمراء”, “جماعة مراكش”, “شہر مراکش”, “مدينة سبعة رجال”, “مدينة مراكش”, “ⴰⵎⵓⵔⴰⴽⵓⵛ”, “マラーケシュ”, “マラケーシェ”, “マラケシ旧市街”, “マラケッシュ”, “馬拉喀什老城區”, “马拉柯什”, and “麥地那城”
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Jemaa el-Fnaa and Majorelle Garden.

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, also Jemaa el-Fna, Djema el-Fna or Djemaa el-Fnaa, is a square and market place in the medina quarter of Marrakesh, Morocco. It remains the main square of Marrakesh, used by locals and tourists.

Park
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The is a one-hectare botanical garden and artist's landscape garden in Marrakesh, Morocco. It was created by the French Orientalist artist Jacques Majorelle over almost forty years, starting in 1923, and features a Cubist villa designed by French architect Paul Sinoir in the 1930s.

Ruins
The , also known as the Qubbat al-Ba'diyyin or Qubbat al-Barudiyyin, is a small monument in Marrakesh, . It was erected by the Almoravid dynasty in the early 12th century.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Medina of Marrakesh and Mechouar Kasbah.

Suburb
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Marrakesh or Marrakech is the fourth-largest city in . It is one of the four imperial cities of Morocco and is the capital of the region.

Neighborhood
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The Kasbah of Marrakesh is a large walled district in the southern part of the medina of Marrakesh, , which historically served as the citadel and royal palace complex of the city.

Neighborhood
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is a neighborhood.

Marrakech

Latitude
31.6258° or 31° 37′ 33″ north
Longitude
-7.9892° or 7° 59′ 21″ west
Population
1,000,000
Elevation
457 metres (1,499 feet)
IATA airport code
RAK
United Nations Location Code
MA RAK
Open location code
8C3JJ2G6+88
Open­Street­Map ID
node 508040941
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2542997
Wiki­data ID
Q101625
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Zeeuws—“Marrakech” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Murrakusy”
  • Afrikaans: “Marrakesj”
  • Albanian: “Marakeshi”
  • Albanian: “Marrakesh”
  • Amharic: “ማራኬሽ”
  • Arabic: “مراكش”
  • Aragonese: “Marráquex”
  • Armenian: “Մարաքեշ”
  • Asturian: “Marrakech”
  • Azerbaijani: “Marakeş”
  • Azerbaijani: “Mərrakeş”
  • Bashkir: “Марракеш”
  • Basque: “Marrakex”
  • Belarusian: “Маракеш”
  • Bengali: “মারাকেশ”
  • Bengali: “মারাক্কেশ”
  • Bosnian: “Marakeš”
  • Bosnian: “Marrakech”
  • Breton: “Marrakech”
  • Bulgarian: “Маракеш”
  • Burmese: “မာရကက်ရှ်မြို့”
  • Catalan: “Marràqueix”
  • Cebuano: “Marrakesh”
  • Central Kurdish: “مەراکیش”
  • Chechen: “Марракеш”
  • Chinese: “馬拉喀什”
  • Chinese: “马拉喀什”
  • Chuvash: “Марракеш”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Marakeş”
  • Croatian: “Marrakech”
  • Czech: “Marrákeš”
  • Dagbani: “Marrakesh”
  • Danish: “Marrakech”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Merakeş (sûke)”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Merakeş”
  • Dutch: “Marrakesh”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “مراكش”
  • Esperanto: “Marakeŝo”
  • Estonian: “Marrakech”
  • Extremaduran: “Marrakech”
  • Finnish: “Marrakech”
  • French: “Marrakech”
  • Galician: “Marrakech”
  • Georgian: “მარაკეში”
  • Georgian: “მარაქეში”
  • German: “Marrakesch”
  • Greek: “Μαρακές”
  • Guarani: “Marrakech”
  • Gujarati: “મારાકેશ”
  • Hausa: “Marrakesh”
  • Hebrew: “מרקש”
  • Hindi: “मराकेश”
  • Hindi: “मर्राकेश”
  • Hungarian: “Marrákes”
  • Icelandic: “Marrakess”
  • Ido: “Marakesh”
  • Inari Sami: “Marrakech”
  • Indonesian: “Marrakesh”
  • Interlingua: “Marrakech”
  • Interlingue: “Marrakesh”
  • Irish: “Marrakech”
  • Italian: “Marrakech”
  • Japanese: “マラケシュ”
  • Javanese: “Marrakesh”
  • Kabyle: “Amurakuc”
  • Kabyle: “Merrakec”
  • Kadazan Dusun: “Marrakesh”
  • Kannada: “ಮಾರಕೇಶ್”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Марракеш”
  • Kazakh: “Marrakeş qalası”
  • Kazakh: “Марракеш қаласы”
  • Kazakh: “Марракеш”
  • Kazakh: “مارراكەش قالاسى”
  • Kirghiz: “Марракеш”
  • Korean: “마라케시”
  • Kurdish: “Marakeş”
  • Kurdish: “Merakeş”
  • Kurdish: “ماراکەش”
  • Ladino: “Marrakesh”
  • Latin: “Marrakech”
  • Latin: “Marrochium”
  • Latvian: “Marrākeša”
  • Lithuanian: “Marakešas”
  • Low German: “Marrakesch”
  • Luxembourgish: “Marrakesch”
  • Macedonian: “Маракеш”
  • Maithili: “मर्राकेशक मदिना”
  • Malay: “Marrakesh”
  • Malay: “مراكش”
  • Malayalam: “മരാക്കേഷ്”
  • Maltese: “Marrakesh”
  • Manx: “Marrakesh”
  • Marathi: “माराकेश”
  • Mingrelian: “მარაქეში”
  • Moksha: “Марракэш”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “مراكش”
  • Nepali: “मर्राकेशको मदिना”
  • Northern Frisian: “Marrakesch”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Marrakech”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Marrakech”
  • Norwegian: “Marrakech”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Marraquèsh”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Marràquoch”
  • Oromo: “Marrakesh”
  • Ossetian: “Марракеш”
  • Panjabi: “ਮਰਾਕਿਸ਼”
  • Panjabi: “ਮਾਰਾਕੇਸ਼”
  • Pennsylvania German: “Marrakesch”
  • Persian: “مراکش”
  • Polish: “Marrakesz”
  • Portuguese: “Marrakech”
  • Portuguese: “Marraquexe”
  • Pushto: “مراکش”
  • Romanian: “Marrakech”
  • Russian: “Марракеш”
  • Samogitian: “Marakešos”
  • Santali: “ᱢᱟᱨᱨᱟᱠᱮᱥ”
  • Scots: “Marrakech”
  • Serbian: “Marakeš”
  • Serbian: “Маракеш”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Marakeš”
  • Shona: “Marrakesh”
  • Sicilian: “Marrakech”
  • Silesian: “Marrakesz”
  • Sindhi: “مراڪش (شهر)”
  • Sindhi: “مراڪش”
  • Sinhala: “මරකෙෂ්”
  • Slovak: “Murrákuš”
  • Slovenian: “Marakeš”
  • Somali: “Marrakesh”
  • South Azerbaijani: “مراکش (شهر)”
  • South Azerbaijani: “مراکش”
  • Spanish: “Marrakech”
  • Spanish: “Marrakesh”
  • Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⵎⵕⵕⴰⴽⵛ”
  • Swahili: “Marakesh”
  • Swahili: “Marrakesh”
  • Swedish: “Marrakech”
  • Tachelhit: “Mrrakc”
  • Tagalog: “Marrakesh”
  • Tajik: “Маракеш”
  • Tajik: “Марокаш”
  • Tajik: “Маррокеш”
  • Tamil: “மரராகேஷ்”
  • Tatar: “Марракеш”
  • Telugu: “మరాకేశ్”
  • Thai: “มาร์ราคิช”
  • Turkish: “Marakeş”
  • Turkish: “Merakeş”
  • Twi: “Marrakech”
  • Ukrainian: “Марракеш”
  • Urdu: “مراکش شہر”
  • Urdu: “مراکش”
  • Uzbek: “Marokash”
  • Uzbek: “Marrakesh”
  • Venetian: “Marrakech”
  • Vietnamese: “Marrakech”
  • Vlaams: “Marrakesh”
  • Walloon: “Marakech”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Marrakech”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Marrakesh”
  • Welsh: “Marrakech”
  • Western Armenian: “Մարաքէշ”
  • Western Frisian: “Marrakesj”
  • Western Panjabi: “مراکش (شہر)”
  • Western Panjabi: “مراکش”
  • Wu Chinese: “马拉喀什”
  • Yiddish: “מאראקעש”
  • Yue Chinese: “馬拉喀什”
  • Zeeuws: “Marrakesh”

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