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Northern end of the avenue's wider segment, with Bank Al-Maghrib on the left and Maroc Telecom on the right. Avenue Mohammed V, sometimes referred to by its old name Avenue Dar al-Makhzen ( lit. 'Royal Palace Avenue' ), is a major thoroughfare in downtown Rabat, Morocco. Its main section was created under the French Protectorate in Morocco and ...
A Royal Air Maroc Boeing 737-800 lands at Atatürk Airport in 2007. Royal Air Maroc (RAM), Morocco's national airline, [ 1] was founded in July 1953 from the merger of Air Maroc and Air Atlas. [ 2] As of February 2014, RAM served a network comprising over 90 destinations, of which 56 are international ones. The carrier flies to 17 cities within ...
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 ...
National Route 6 (N6) is a national highway of Morocco. It is one of the most important road networks linking the west of the country to the east, connecting the capital Rabat and Salé on the west coast to Maghnia, Algeria on the border. It passes through many of Morocco's major cities such as Oujda, Fes, Meknes and Khemisset.
Rabat is located on the Atlantic Ocean at the mouth of the river Bou Regreg, opposite Salé, the city's main commuter town. Rabat was founded in the 12th century by the Almohads. The city grew at first but went into an extended period of decline following the collapse of the Almohads. In the 17th century, Rabat became a haven for Barbary pirates.
The municipality of Meknes proper recorded a population of 520,428 in the 2014 census.[ 5] Meknes ( Arabic: مكناس, romanized : maknās, pronounced [maknaːs]) is one of the four Imperial cities of Morocco, located in northern central Morocco and the sixth largest city by population in the kingdom.
Marrakesh or Marrakech ( / məˈrækɛʃ / or / ˌmærəˈkɛʃ /; [ 3] Arabic: مراكش, romanized : murrākuš, pronounced [murraːkuʃ]) is the fourth-largest city in Morocco. [ 2] It is one of the four imperial cities of Morocco and is the capital of the Marrakesh–Safi region. The city lies west of the foothills of the Atlas Mountains .
The Casablanca–Rabat expressway, designated A1, was the first expressway to be built in Morocco, with construction starting in the 1970s. It was only completed in 1986 after a 7-year halt. It was originally free of charge, but a toll station was erected at Bouznika in 1993 as part of a new strategy in Moroccan expressway construction.