Essaouira
Essaouira, known until the 1960s as Mogador, is a port city in the western Moroccan region of Marakesh-Safi, on the Atlantic coast. It has 77,966 inhabitants as of 2014.Photo: Inkey, CC BY-SA 2.5.
Notable Places in the Area
Bab Doukkala (Essaouira)
City gate
Photo: Jklamo, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Bab Doukkala (Essaouira) is a city gate.
Localities in the Area
Diabat
Village
Photo: World Imaging, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Diabat is a village in western Morocco near the coast of the Atlantic Ocean about five kilometres south of the city of Essaouira.
Essaouira
- Type: City with 77,400 residents
- Description: city in Marrakech-Safi, Morocco
- Categories: urban commune of Morocco and locality
- Location: Essaouira Province, Marrakesh–Safi, South Atlantic Coast, Morocco, North Africa, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
31.5131° or 31° 30' 47" northLongitude
-9.7697° or 9° 46' 11" westPopulation
77,400Elevation
7 metres (23 feet)IATA airport code
ESUUnited Nations Location Code
MA ESSOpen Location Code
8C3GG67J+64OpenStreetMap ID
node 245486763OpenStreetMap Feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
2549263Wikidata ID
Q216939Essaouira Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Abkhazian: Mugadur
- Achinese: As-Shawirah
- Albanian: Essaouira
- Arabic (Historic): موغادور
- Arabic (Historic): موكادور
- Arabic: الصويرة
- Arabic: تصنيفز مدن فينيقية
- Arabic: جزيرة موكادور
- Arabic: صويرة
- Arabic: موغادور
- Armenian: Էս Սուվեյրա
- Asturian: Esauira
- Asturian: Esauria
- Asturian: Essaouira
- Bashkir: Әс-Сувейра
- Basque: Essauira
- Basque: Mogador
- Basque: Taṣṣurt
- Bengali: এসসাওইরা
- Breton: Essaouira
- Catalan: Al-Sawira
- Catalan: Al-Suwaira
- Catalan: Al-Suwayra
- Catalan: Amogdul
- Catalan: Es-Sueira
- Catalan: Essaouira
- Catalan: Mogador
- Catalan: Mogdura
- Catalan: Suwayra
- Cebuano: Essaouira (kapital sa munisipyo)
- Cebuano: Essaouira
- Chinese: 索維拉
- Chinese: 索维拉
- Croatian: Esauira
- Croatian: Essaouira
- Czech: As-Sawíra
- Danish: Essaouira
- Dutch: Essaouira
- Dutch: Essaouria
- Dutch: Mogador
- Egyptian Arabic: الصويره
- English (Historic): Mogador
- English: Magador
- English: Mogador
- English: Saouira
- English: al-Sawira
- English: aṣ-Ṣawīra
- Esperanto: Esaŭiro
- Esperanto: Medino de Esaŭiro
- Finnish: Essaouira
- French: Al-Suwayra
- French: Essaouira
- French: Magador
- French: Mogador
- French: Saouira
- Georgian: ელ-სუვაირა
- Georgian: ეს-სუვეირა
- Georgian: ეს სუვეირა
- German: As-Sawirah
- German: Essaouira
- German: Islas de Mogador
- German: Mogador
- German: Purpurinseln
- German: as-Ṣawīra
- Greek: Εσαουίρα
- Gujarati: એસાઉઈરા
- Hebrew: אסואירה
- Hebrew: מוגדור
- Hindi: एससयइरा
- Hungarian: Szavíra
- Indonesian: Essaouira
- Italian: Essaouira
- Italian: Essauira
- Italian: Mogador
- Japanese: エッサウィラ
- Japanese: エッサウィラのメディナ
- Japanese: エッサウィラのメディナ（旧名モガドール）
- Kabyle: Amegdul
- Kabyle: Amogdul
- Kabyle: Mogador
- Kabyle: Sswira
- Kannada: ಎಸ್ಸೌರಿಯಾ
- Korean: 에사우이라
- Korean: 에사위라
- Ladino: Essaouira
- Ladino: Essauira
- Latvian: Savīra
- Latvian: Suveira
- Lithuanian: Essaouira
- Lithuanian: Savira
- Maithili: एस्साउरा
- Malay: Essaouira
- Maltese: Essaouira
- Maltese: Mogador
- Marathi: एसाउइरा
- Moroccan Arabic: الصويرة
- Moroccan Arabic: موغادور
- Nepali: एस्साउरा
- Norwegian: Essaouira
- Norwegian Bokmål: Essaouira
- Norwegian Bokmål: Mogador
- Occitan (post 1500): Essaoira
- Occitan (post 1500): Mogador
- Persian: صویره
- Polish: As-Sawira
- Polish: As-Suwajra
- Polish: Essaouira
- Polish: Mogador
- Portuguese: Essaouira
- Portuguese: Medina de Essaouira
- Portuguese: Mogador
- Romanian: Essaouira
- Russian: Могадор
- Russian: Эс-Сувейра
- Russian: Эсауира
- Russian: Эссуэйра
- Scots: Essaouira
- Scots: Mogador
- Scots: Saouira
- Scots: al-Sawira
- Scots: aṣ-Ṣawīra
- Serbian: Есаура
- Serbo-Croatian: Esauira
- Serbo-Croatian: Essaouira
- Serbo-Croatian: Taṣṣurt
- Sinhala: එස්සාඔරියා
- Slovenian: Essaouira
- Slovenian: Mogador
- South Azerbaijani: صویره
- Spanish: Esauira
- Spanish: Essaouira
- Spanish: Mogador
- Spanish: Mogadur
- Standard Moroccan Tamazight: ⵎⵓⴳⴰⴷⵓⵔ
- Swahili: Essaouira
- Swedish: Es-Saouira
- Swedish: Essaouira
- Swedish: Mogador
- Swedish: Souira
- Tachelhit: Tassurt
- Tamil: எஸ்சாவோஉய்ரா
- Telugu: ఎస్శౌయిరా
- Turkish: Essaouira
- Turkish: Suvayr
- Turkish: Suveyre
- Ukrainian: Ес-Сувейра
- Urdu: صویرہ
- Vietnamese: Essaouira
- Walloon: Swira
- Welsh: Essaouira
- Welsh: Mogador
- Wu Chinese: 索维拉
- Yiddish: מאגאדאר
- Yiddish: עסואירע
- Historic: Mogadar
- Historic: Suira
- Aş Şuwayrah
- Es Suira
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- MellahSuburb
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