Taounate
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Place details
- Locality
- Taounate ⵜⴰⵡⵏⴰⵜ تاونات
- Region
- Fès-Meknès ⴼⴰⵙ-ⵎⴽⵏⴰⵙ فاس-مكناس
- Country
- Maroc ⵍⵎⵖⵔⵉⴱ المغرب
- Population
- 41,075
- Timezone
- Africa/Casablanca
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Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Taounate
- Settlement.image_skyline
- 20141218 - Barrage Sahla - Morocco - Air Photo by sebaso.jpg
- Settlement.image_caption
- Barrage Sahla and Taounate
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Morocco
- Settlement.pushpin_label_position
- bottom
- Settlement.pushpin_mapsize
- 300
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Location in Morocco
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Region
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Fès-Meknès
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- Province
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Taounate Province
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 2014
- Settlement.population_total
- 37,616
- Settlement.population_blank1_title
- Ethnicities
- Settlement.timezone
- WET
- Settlement.utc_offset
- +0
- Settlement.timezone_DST
- WEST
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Wikidata facts
- Official name
- تاونات
- Country
- Morocco
- Located in
- Taounate Province
- Population
- 39114
- Elevation
- 566
- Capital of
- Taounate Province
- Image
- Taounate ❤️.jpg
- Households
- 10078
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- native label
- ⵜⴰⵡⵏⴰⵜ
- Commons category
- Taounate
- P12749
- 1545
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Taounate () is a town in northern Morocco, and is the capital of Taounate Province. The town had 37,616 inhabitants as of the 2014 Moroccan census.
==Geography== Taounate is located in the southern Rif Mountains, and the river Oued Sra and gorges are nearby. The town is situated on a plateau that overlooks the valley of the Oued Sra, as well as the Gargara gorges.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Taounate” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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