Prefectures and provinces of Morocco

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The 12 Regions of Morocco are subdivided into 75 second-level administrative subdivisions, the Prefectures and provinces. There are 13 prefectures and 62 provinces. Each prefecture or province is subdivided into arrondissements (only in prefectures of some metropolitan areas), municipalities (communes, sing. commune) or urban municipalities (communes urbaines, sing. commune urbaine) in other urban areas, and districts (cercles, sing. cercle) in rural areas. The districts are subdivided into rural municipalities (communes rurales, sing. commune rural). One prefecture (Casablanca) is also subdivided into préfectures d'arrondissements (sing. préfecture d'arrondissements), similar to districts (cercles) except they are grouping a few arrondissements instead of rural municipalities.

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Prefectures and provinces of Morocco (including Western Sahara, a disputed territory)

Note: The arrondissements and (urban) municipalities should probably be thought of as fourth-level subdivisions, on the same level as the rural municipalities, but they are not part of any district. [1]

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Moroccan administrative division

List of prefectures and provinces

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Seats / Headquarters

LocationRegionProvince / PrefectureSeat
Mainland

Morocco

 Béni Mellal-Khénifra Region Azilal Province Azilal
Béni-Mellal Province Beni Mellal
Fquih Ben Salah Province Fquih Ben Salah
Khénifra Province Khenifra
Khouribga Province Khouribga
Casablanca-Settat Region Benslimane Province Benslimane
Berrechid Province Berrechid
Casablanca Prefecture Casablanca
El Jadida Province El Jadida
Médiouna Province Mediouna
Mohammedia Prefecture Mohammedia
Nouaceur Province Nouaceur
Settat Province Settat
Sidi Bennour Province Sidi Bennour
Drâa-Tafilalet Region Errachidia Province Errachidia
Midelt Province Midelt
Ouarzazate Province Ouarzazate
Tinghir Province Tinghir
Zagora Province Zagora
Fès-Meknès Region Boulemane Province Boulemane
El Hajeb Province El Hajeb
Fez Prefecture Fez
Ifrane Province Ifrane
Meknès Prefecture Meknes
Moulay Yacoub Province Moulay Yacoub
Sefrou Province Sefrou
Taounate Province Taounate
Taza Province Taza
Marrakesh-Safi Region Al Haouz Province Tahannaout
Chichaoua Province Chichaoua
El Kelâa des Sraghna Province Kalaat Sraghna
Essaouira Province Essaouira
Marrakesh Prefecture Marrakesh
Rehamna Province Ben Guerir
Safi Province Safi
Youssoufia Province Youssoufia
Oriental Region Berkane Province Berkane
Driouch Province Driouch
Figuig Province Figuig
Guercif Province Guercif
Jerada Province Jerada
Nador Province Nador
Oujda-Angad Prefecture Oujda
Taourirt Province Taourirt
Rabat-Salé-Kénitra Region Kénitra Province Kenitra
Khémisset Province Khemisset
Rabat Prefecture Rabat
Salé Prefecture Salé
Sidi Kacem Province Sidi Kacem
Sidi Slimane Province Sidi Slimane
Skhirate-Témara Prefecture Temara
Souss-Massa Region Agadir-Ida Ou Tanane Prefecture Agadir
Chtouka Aït Baha Province Biougra
Inezgane-Aït Melloul Prefecture Inezgane
Taroudant Province Taroudant
Tata Province Tata
Tiznit Province Tiznit
Tanger-Tetouan-Al Hoceima Region Al Hoceïma Province Al Hoceima
Chefchaouen Province Chefchaouen
Fahs-Anjra Province Anjra
Larache Province Larache
M'diq-Fnideq Prefecture M'diq
Ouezzane Province Ouazzane
Tangier-Assilah Prefecture Tangier
Tétouan Province Tétouan
Western Sahara

(partly controlled)

 Dakhla-Oued Ed-Dahab Region Aousserd Province Aousserd
Oued Ed-Dahab Province Dakhla
Guelmim-Oued Noun Region Assa-Zag Province Assa
Guelmim Province Guelmim
Sidi Ifni Province Sidi Ifni
Tan-Tan Province Tan-Tan
Laâyoune-Sakia El Hamra Region Boujdour Province Boujdour
Es Semara Province Smara
Laâyoune Province Laayoune
Tarfaya Province Tarfaya

Mainland Morocco

Tanger-Tetouan-Al Hoceima Region

Oriental Region

Fès-Meknès Region

Rabat-Salé-Kénitra Region

Béni Mellal-Khénifra Region

Casablanca-Settat Region

Marrakech-Safi Region

Drâa-Tafilalet Region

Souss-Massa Region

Western Sahara (most under de facto Moroccan administration)

Most of Western Sahara is administered de facto by Morocco (where the area is informally named the Southern Provinces by the Moroccan government and media); the rest is administered by the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic.

The United Nations considers the territory to be disputed, as it was not legally transferred by Spain when it abandoned its former colony in 1975, and several states (notably members of the African Union) either recognize the SADR as the sole legitimate government of Western Sahara, or consider that the status of the region (either as an independent state, or as part of Morocco, or as part of Mauritania that initially claimed a part of it) has still not been autodetermined by the local population prior to its annexation. The United Nations has no legal instruments confirming the claims on the region made by the governments of Morocco or the self-proclaimed SADR, and in international treaties, it is still a formal part of Spain that remains to be properly decolonized, even though Spain and Mauritania no longer claim any part of it.

Since the annexation, the situation is worsened by the fact that most of the historic Western Saharan population has fled either to the remaining free zone (now isolated by the Moroccan militarized berm) or to refugee camps in neighbouring countries (notably Algeria), due to lack of resources in the free zone.[ citation needed ] The remaining native Western Saharan population now lives as a minority among the new Moroccan occupants. The absence of a legal government with a permanent administration in the free zone has also introduced a threat to the security of the surrounding countries in the Saharan and Sahel regions, including Morocco itself.

Guelmim-Oued Noun Region

Laâyoune-Sakia El Hamra Region

Dakhla-Oued Ed-Dahab Region

Before 2015

Mainland Morocco

Chaouia-Ouardigha Region

Greater Casablanca Region

Tadla-Azilal Region

Doukkala-Abda Region

Marrakech-Tensift-El Haouz Region

Fès-Boulemane Region

Taza-Al Hoceima-Taounate Region

Gharb-Chrarda-Béni Hssen Region

Rabat-Salé-Zemmour-Zaer Region

Tangier-Tétouan Region

Oriental Region

Meknès-Tafilalet Region

Souss-Massa-Drâa Region

Moroccan Sahara (most under de facto Moroccan administration)

Guelmim-Es Semara Region

Laâyoune-Boujdour-Sakia El Hamra Region

Oued Ed-Dahab-Lagouira Region

Wilaya

In Morocco, a wilaya is an administrative division created in 1981 that "brings together many provinces or prefectures or both at the same time, and is intended to endow big urban units such as Casablanca with an administrative organization capable of meeting the needs that emerge from these expanding cities and their growing populations." [3] Therefore, strictly speaking, the level of wilayas are between the regions and prefectures/provinces (although wilayas only cover urban areas). However, they are often used synonymous with regions or prefectures/provinces in common usage. [4]

See also

References

  1. ↑ HCP.ma List of districts and municipalities (communes) of Morocco by province/prefecture Archived 2009-04-18 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ↑ "Population légale d'après les résultats du RGPH 2014 sur le Bulletin officiel N° 6354" (PDF). Haut-Commissariat au Plan (in Arabic). Retrieved 2015-07-11.
  3. ↑ The Wilaya of Grand Casablanca Archived May 1, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
  4. ↑ Wilayas, Prefectures and Provinces Archived July 19, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
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