Key facts
- Country
- Morocco
- Capital
- Oujda
- Wali governor
- Abdelfettah El Houmam
- Total
- 82,900 km (32,000 sq mi)
- Time zone
- UTC+0 ( WET )
- Summer dst
- UTC+1 ( WEST )
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Country
- Morocco
- Contains
- Guercif Province
- Capital
- Oujda
- Population
- 1768691
- Area
- 82.820
- Image
- Jebel Tamejout.jpg
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- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 2015-00-00
- Commons category
- Oriental (1997-2015)
- native label
- ⵜⴰⴳⵎⵓⴹⴰⵏⵜ
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Oriental (Morocco)
- different from
- Oriental
- related category
- Category:Oriental (Morocco)
- inception
- 1971-00-00
Sources (2)
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Encyclopedic overview
Oriental (Arabic: الجهة الشرقية) is one of the sixteen former regions of Morocco. It covers an area of 82,900 km and has a population of 1,918,094 (2004 census). The capital and largest city is Oujda, and the second largest city is Nador.
Geography
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Oriental” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.