Chefchaouen
Chefchaouen, also known as Chaouen, is a city in northwest Morocco. It is the chief town of the province of the same name and is noted for its buildings in shades of blue, for which it is nicknamed the "Blue City".Photo: Ismailbrk, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: Agnieszka Spieszny, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Photo: Ekaterina Kvelidze, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Chefchaouen
- Type: Town with 35,700 residents
- Description: Moroccan city located in the Western Rif in the Akhmas region
- Categories: city, urban commune of Morocco and locality
- Location: Chefchaouen Province, Tanger-Tetouan-Al Hoceima, Mediterranean Morocco, Morocco, North Africa, Africa
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Latitude
35.1688° or 35° 10' 8" northLongitude
-5.2683° or 5° 16' 6" westPopulation
35,700Elevation
607 metres (1,991 feet)Open Location Code
8C7P5P9J+GMOpenStreetMap ID
node 332035940OpenStreetMap Feature
place=townGeoNames ID
2553455Wikidata ID
Q676778Chefchaouen Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Abkhazian: Accawen
- Arabic: الشاون
- Arabic: شاون
- Arabic: شفشاون
- Armenian: Շեֆշաուեն
- Asturian: Chefchaouen
- Basque: Xauen
- Bulgarian: Чефчаоуене
- Catalan: Xauen
- Cebuano: Chefchaouene
- Chinese: 紗富彎
- Chinese: 舍夫沙万
- Chinese: 舍夫沙萬
- Croatian: Chefchaouen
- Czech: Chaouen
- Czech: Chefchaouen
- Czech: Šafšawán
- Czech: Šafšawān
- Dutch: Chefchaouen
- Egyptian Arabic: شفشاون
- English: Blue City
- English: Chaouen
- English: Shafshawan
- Estonian: Chefchaouen
- French: Chaouen
- French: Chefchaouen
- French: Ville de Chechaouèn
- Galician: Xauen
- German: Chaouen
- German: Chefchaouen
- Hebrew: שפשאוון
- Hungarian: Sefsáven
- Indonesian: Chefchaouen
- Italian: Chefchaouen
- Japanese: シャウエン
- Kabyle: Accawen
- Korean: 쉐프샤우엔
- Ladino: Xauen
- Lithuanian: Šefšauenas
- Malay: Chefchaouen
- Moroccan Arabic: شفشاون
- Occitan (post 1500): Chauen
- Persian: شفشاون
- Polish: Szafszawan
- Portuguese: Chefchaouen
- Portuguese: Xexuão
- Romanian: Șafșauan
- Russian: Шавен
- Russian: Шефшауен
- Scots: Chaouen
- Scots: Chefchaouen
- Serbo-Croatian: Cfcawn
- Serbo-Croatian: Chefchaouen
- South Azerbaijani: شفشاون
- Spanish: Chaouen
- Spanish: Chauen
- Spanish: Ciudad Azul
- Spanish: La Ciudad Azul
- Spanish: Xaouen
- Spanish: Xauen
- Swedish: Chefchaouen
- Tachelhit: Ccawn
- Thai: ชัฟชาวัน
- Turkish: Şafşavan
- Ukrainian: Шаван
- Ukrainian: Шавен
- Ukrainian: Шафшаван
- Ukrainian: Шефшауен
- Urdu: شفشاون
- Vietnamese: Chauen
- Welsh: Chaouen
- Welsh: Chefchaouen
- Yue Chinese: 舍夫沙萬
- Chaouèn
- Chechaouene
- Chechaouèn
- Chichaouene
- Ech Chaouene
- Scheschauen
- Xexauen
- 셰프샤우엔
Other Places Named Chefchaouen
Localities in the Area
- Souk السوقSuburb
- SouikaSuburb
- Rif Al AndalousSuburb
- SebbanineSuburb
- OnsarSuburb
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About Mapcarta. Thanks to Mapbox for providing amazing maps. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, excluding photos, directions and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipdia page Chefchaouen. Photo: Agnieszka Spieszny, CC BY-SA 2.0.