Meknes
Meknes is a city in the Middle Atlas region of Morocco. Meknes is a vibrant, modern city bustling with nightlife, restaurants and an impressive imperial city created in the 17th century by King Moulay Ismaïl, with numerous historical monuments and natural sites; it is also the nearest city to the Roman ruins of Volubilis.Photo: Bgag, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Notable Places in the Area
Honneur Stadium
Honneur Stadium is a multi-use stadium in Meknes, Morocco.Localities in the Area
Ouislane
Photo: Mahta oussama, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Ouislane is a town and municipality in Meknès Prefecture of the Fès-Meknès region of Morocco.
Meknes
- Type: City with 836,000 residents
- Description: City in Morocco
- Categories: big city, urban commune of Morocco and locality
- Location: Meknes, Meknès Prefecture, Fès-Meknès, Middle Atlas, Morocco, North Africa, Africa
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Latitude
33.8984° or 33° 53' 54" northLongitude
-5.5322° or 5° 31' 56" westPopulation
836,000Elevation
531 metres (1,742 feet)IATA airport code
MEKUnited Nations Location Code
MA MEKOpen Location Code
8C5PVFX9+94OpenStreetMap ID
node 26756035OpenStreetMap Feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
2542715Wikidata ID
Q178663Meknes Satellite Map
© OpenStreetMap, Mapbox and Maxar
Also Known As
- Abkhazian: Meknas
- Arabic: Meknes
- Arabic: الحاضرة الإسماعيلية
- Arabic: العاصمة الإسماعيلية
- Arabic: مكناس
- Arabic: مكناسة الزيتون
- Armenian: Մեկնես
- Asturian: Mequinez
- Avaric: Guazaxo ke Maknas
- Bashkir: Мекнес
- Basque: Meknes
- Belarusian: Мекнес
- Belarusian: Мэкнэс
- Bengali: মেকনাস
- Bengali: মেকনেস
- Bulgarian: Мекнес
- Catalan: Meknes
- Catalan: Meknès
- Catalan: Mequines
- Cebuano: Meknès
- Chinese: メクネス
- Chinese: 梅克內斯
- Chinese: 梅克内斯
- Chuvash: Мекнес
- Corsican: Meknes
- Croatian: Meknes
- Czech: Meknes
- Czech: Meknès
- Danish: Meknes
- Danish: Meknès
- Dutch: Meknes
- Dutch: Meknez
- Dutch: Meknès
- Egyptian Arabic: مكناس
- Esperanto: Meknes
- Esperanto: Meknès
- Estonian: Meknes
- Finnish: Meknes
- French: Meknès
- Georgian: მეკნესი
- German: Meknes
- German: Meknès
- Greek: Μεκνές
- Guarani: Mekine
- Gujarati: મેકનેસ
- Hausa: Ameknas
- Hebrew: מקנס
- Hindi: मेकनेस
- Hungarian: Meknesz
- Indonesian: Meknes
- Irish: Meknes
- Italian: Mekhnes
- Italian: Meknes
- Italian: Meknès
- Japanese: メクネス
- Japanese: 古都メクネス
- Kabyle: Meknas
- Kannada: ಮೆಕ್ನೆಸ್
- Kazakh: Meknes qalası
- Kazakh: Мекнес қаласы
- Kazakh: مەكنەس قالاسى
- Korean: 메크네스
- Kotava: Guazaxo ke Maknas
- Kurdish: Meknes
- Kurdish: مەکنەس
- Latvian: Meknesa
- Latvian: Miknēsa
- Lithuanian: Meknesas
- Low German: Meknès
- Macedonian: Мекнес
- Maithili: मेकनेस
- Malay: Meknes
- Maltese: Meknès
- Marathi: मेकनेस
- Moksha: Мэкнэс
- Moroccan Arabic: مكناس
- Nepali: मेकनेस
- Northern Frisian: Meknès
- Norwegian: Meknes
- Norwegian: Meknès
- Norwegian Bokmål: Meknes
- Norwegian Bokmål: Meknès
- Ossetian: Мекнес
- Persian: مکناس
- Polish: Meknes
- Polish: Meknès
- Polish: Miknas
- Portuguese: Meknes
- Portuguese: Meknès
- Portuguese: Mequinez
- Romanian: Meknes
- Romanian: Meknès
- Russian: Мекнес
- Scots: Meknes
- Serbian: Meknes
- Serbian: Мекнес
- Serbian: مكناس
- Serbo-Croatian: Meknes
- Serbo-Croatian: Mknas
- Sicilian: Meknes
- Silesian: Meknes
- Sinhala: මෙක්නෙස්
- Slovenian: Meknes
- South Azerbaijani: مکناس
- Spanish: Meknes
- Spanish: Meknès
- Spanish: Mequinez
- Spanish: Mequínez
- Swahili: Meknès
- Swedish: Mekines
- Swedish: Meknes
- Swedish: Meknès
- Tachelhit: Mknas
- Tamil: மெக்னாஸ்
- Telugu: మెక్నెస్
- Thai: Meknes
- Thai: แม็กแน็ส
- Turkish: Meknes
- Twi: Meknes
- Ukrainian: Мекнес
- Urdu: Meknes
- Urdu: Meknès
- Urdu: مکناس
- Uzbek: Meknes
- Uzbek: Miknas
- Uzbek: Miknas Ulzaytun
- Uzbek: Miknas ulzaytun
- Venetian: Meknes
- Vietnamese: Meknes
- Vlaams: Meknes
- Waray (Philippines): Meknes
- Welsh: Meknes
- Welsh: Meknès
- Western Panjabi: مکناس
- Wu Chinese: 梅克内斯
- Yiddish: מעקנעס
- Yue Chinese: 梅克內斯
- Mekinez
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Other Places Named Meknes
In the Area
- ZahwaSuburb
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- Qobbat Souk قبة السوقSuburb
- MellahNeighbourhood
- Al Ghorfa 1Suburb
- RiadSuburb
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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 Wikivoyage page Meknes. Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.