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The French protectorate in Morocco, [4] also known as French Morocco, was the period of French colonial rule in Morocco that lasted from 1912 to 1956. [5] The protectorate was officially established 30 March 1912, when Sultan Abd al-Hafid signed the Treaty of Fez, though the French military occupation of Morocco had begun with the invasion of Oujda and the bombardment of Casablanca in 1907.
This is a list of municipalities (urban or rural communes), and arrondissements of Morocco, based on the 2004 census.. In 2009 a new administrative division of Morocco was adopted, creating 13 new provinces: Berrechid, Driouch, Fquih Ben Salah, Guercif, Midelt, Ouezzane, Rehamna, Sidi Bennour, Sidi Ifni, Sidi Slimane, Tarfaya, Tinghir and Youssoufia.
Rabat ( / rəˈbɑːt /, also UK: / rəˈbæt /, US: / rɑːˈbɑːt /; [ 3][ 4][ 5] Arabic: الرباط, romanized : ar-Ribāṭ) is the capital city of Morocco and the country's seventh-largest city with an urban population of approximately 580,000 (2014) [ 2] and a metropolitan population of over 1.2 million. It is also the capital city ...
Located on the Atlantic coast of the Chaouia plain in the central-western part of Morocco, the city has a population of about 3.71 million in the urban area, and over 4.27 million in Greater Casablanca, making it the most populous city in the Maghreb region, and the eighth-largest in the Arab world .
In Morocco, the 75 second-level administrative subdivisions are 13 prefectures and 62 provinces. They are subdivisions of the 12 regions of Morocco. [ 1] Each prefecture or province is subdivided into arrondissements (only in prefectures of some metropolitan areas ), municipalities ( communes, sing. commune) or urban municipalities ( communes ...
The French Protectorate Residence also known as Residence-general ( French: résidence générale) is a historic building in Rabat, Morocco. It was the seat of the Resident-general in the French protectorate in Morocco from its completion in 1924 to the end of the protectorate in 1956. Following Moroccan independence, the property became the ...
Mohammedia ( Arabic: المحمدية, romanized : al-muḥammadiyya ), known until 1960 as Fedala ( Arabic: فضالة ), is a port city on the west coast of Morocco between Casablanca and Rabat in the region of Casablanca-Settat. It hosts the most important oil refinery of Morocco, Samir Refinery, which makes it the center of the Moroccan ...
ISO 3166-2:MA. ISO 3166-2:MA is the entry for Morocco in ISO 3166-2, part of the ISO 3166 standard published by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), which defines codes for the names of the principal subdivisions (e.g., provinces or states) of all countries coded in ISO 3166-1 . Currently for Morocco, ISO 3166-2 codes are ...