Region · North

Tangier-Tetouan-Al Hoceima

13 places in Tangier-Tetouan-Al Hoceima, each with its own story. From north to south.

• FnideqA coastal town in the prefecture of M’diq-Fnideq that grew from 53,527 to 77,436 inhabitants between 2004 and 2014 and still had almost the same number, 77,250, in 2024. Since 2022 it has had a zone for trade and warehousing, the Zone d’activité économique de Fnideq.
• TangierA port city at the entrance to the Strait of Gibraltar, on a bay between Cap Spartel and Cap Malabata. With 1,275,428 inhabitants, Tangier is Morocco's second-largest city after Casablanca (2024).
• M’diqA coastal town 13 kilometres from Tetouan, whose port was built from 1961 and has taken pleasure boats since 1966; a new marina was added in 2009. In 2024 M’diq had 67,599 inhabitants.
• MartilA coastal town in the Martil plain, one of the narrow coastal plains at the river mouths near Tetouan, and the largest municipality in the prefecture of M’diq-Fnideq: it grew from 64,355 inhabitants in 2014 to 95,896 in 2024, an average of 4.07 per cent a year.
• TetouanRefounded in the 15th century by families from Andalusia, with a medina that has been a World Heritage site since 1997. UNESCO calls it one of the smallest medinas in Morocco and at the same time the most complete.
• AsilahAn Atlantic town 40 kilometres south of Tangier whose medina is enclosed by walls dating from the time of the Portuguese trading post. Since 1978 the Fondation du Forum d’Assilah has held its cultural moussem here; in 2024 the municipality had 36,039 inhabitants.
• Al HoceimaA port town at the western end of the bay of Al Hoceima, with the Rif at its back. Near the town lies the only national park on Morocco's Mediterranean coast that also includes a marine area.
• LaracheA port town on the left bank of the Oued Loukkos, about 750 metres from its mouth; in 2024 it had 133,731 inhabitants. Opposite lies the ancient city of Lixus, inhabited from the 8th century BC until the 14th century and on the World Heritage Tentative List since 1995.
• ChefchaouenA mountain town in the western Rif, founded in 1471, a town of Andalusian tradition. In 2010 it represented Morocco in the UNESCO nomination for the Mediterranean diet.
• ImzourenAfter Al Hoceima the largest municipality in the province of Al Hoceima, with 34,848 inhabitants in 2024, on the Ghis-Nekor plain, whose groundwater supplies a large share of the area’s drinking water.
• Ksar el-KebirA town on the Loukkos and the main market of the irrigated Loukkos valley. After Larache it is the second-largest municipality in Larache province: in 2024 Ksar el-Kebir had 124,701 inhabitants, compared with 126,617 in 2014.
• TarguistA small town in a basin of the Rif in the province of Al Hoceima, which had 14,638 inhabitants in 2024, compared with 13,390 in 2014. Unlike nearby Imzouren, just over half of the people here spoke only Darija in everyday life in 2014.
• OuezzaneA town between the foothills of the Rif and the Gharb plain that grew up in the early 17th century around the zawiya of Moulay Abdallah Chérif. In 2024, 57,737 of the 274,577 inhabitants of Ouezzane province lived here.

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