Region · Sahara

Laayoune-Sakia El Hamra

4 places in Laayoune-Sakia El Hamra, each with its own story. From north to south.

TarfayaTarfaya had 11,030 inhabitants in 2024. From October 1927 to the end of 1928 Antoine de Saint-Exupéry ran the airfield here, then called Cap Juby, on the airmail route from Casablanca to Dakar; since 2004 a museum of the Aéropostale has commemorated him.
LaayouneThe largest city in the Laayoune-Sakia El Hamra region, with the most important port in the south.
SmaraSmara, the capital of Es-Semara province, had 56,607 inhabitants in 2024. The town grew up around a zawiya founded by Sheikh Maâ El Aïnin in 1898.
BoujdourBoujdour had 57,360 inhabitants in 2024. Besides a shelter port for small-scale fishing, the town has had a new port since 26 April 2012, mainly for coastal fishing.