Ouarzazate
Ouarzazate, nicknamed the door of the desert, is a city and capital of Ouarzazate Province in the region of Drâa-Tafilalet, south-central Morocco. Ouarzazate is a primary tourist destination in Morocco during the holidays, as well as a starting point for excursions into and across the Draa Valley and the desert. Aït Benhaddou west of the city is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.Photo: Aangelo, Public domain.
Photo: Uspn, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Alexander Leisser, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: Uspn, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Grand Parc - Bordeaux, France, CC BY 2.0.
Notable Places in the Area
Ouarzazate Airport
Ouarzazate Airport is an airport serving Ouarzazate, a city in the Drâa-Tafilalet region in Morocco.Localities in the Area
Tabounte
Tabounte is a town in Ouarzazate Province, Drâa-Tafilalet, Morocco.Ouarzazate
- Type: City with 71,100 residents
- Description: City in Morocco
- Categories: town, urban commune of Morocco and locality
- Location: Ouarzazate Province, Drâa-Tafilalet, Saharan Morocco, Morocco, North Africa, Africa
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Latitude
30.9202° or 30° 55' 13" northLongitude
-6.9109° or 6° 54' 39" westPopulation
71,100Elevation
1,113 metres (3,652 feet)IATA airport code
OZZUnited Nations Location Code
MA OZZOpen Location Code
8C2MW3CQ+3JOpenStreetMap ID
node 288704798OpenStreetMap Feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
2540850Wikidata ID
Q505208Ouarzazate Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Abkhazian: Warzazat
- Arabic: ورزازات
- Arabic: ورززات
- Asturian: Ouarzazate
- Azerbaijani: Uarzazat
- Azerbaijani: Uarzazate
- Azerbaijani: Varzazat
- Basque: Ouarzazate
- Belarusian: Варзазат
- Bengali: ওয়ারজাজাতে
- Bulgarian: Варзазат
- Bulgarian: Уарзазат
- Catalan: Ouarzazate
- Cebuano: Ouarzazate
- Central Kurdish: وەرزازات (شارۆچکە لە مەغریب)
- Chinese: 瓦尔扎扎特
- Chinese: 瓦爾扎扎特
- Croatian: Ouarzazate
- Czech: Warzazát
- Danish: Ouarzazate
- Dutch: Ouarzazate
- Egyptian Arabic: ورزازات
- English: Warzazat
- English: Warzāzāt
- Esperanto: Ouarzazate
- Finnish: Ouarzazate
- French: Ouarzazate
- French: Warzazat
- French: Wuarzazate
- Galician: Ouarzazate
- German: Ouarzazate
- German: Quarzazate
- Greek: Ουαρζαζάτ
- Greek: Ουαρζαζάτε
- Gujarati: ઔરઝાજેટ
- Hebrew: ורזאזאת
- Hindi: ओरज़ज़तें
- Hungarian: Varzázát
- Indonesian: Ouarzazate
- Italian: Ouarzazate
- Japanese: ワルザザト
- Japanese: ワルザザート
- Kabyle: Warzazat
- Kannada: ಔರ್ಜಜೇಟ್
- Korean: 와르자자트
- Korean: 우아르자자트
- Latvian: Varzāzāta
- Lithuanian: Uarzazatas
- Lithuanian: Urzazatas
- Lithuanian: Varzazatas
- Malay: Ouarzazate
- Marathi: औरझाजाते
- Moroccan Arabic: وارزازات
- Norwegian: Ouarzazate
- Norwegian Bokmål: Quarzazate
- Occitan (post 1500): Oarzazat
- Persian: ورزازات
- Persian: ورززات
- Polish: Ouarzazat
- Polish: Ouarzazate
- Polish: Warzazat
- Portuguese: Ouarzazate
- Portuguese: Uarzazate
- Romanian: Ouarzazate
- Russian: Варзазат
- Russian: Уарзазат
- Russian: Уарзазате
- Serbo-Croatian: Ouarzazate
- Serbo-Croatian: Warzazat
- Sinhala: ඔඋආස්සාටේ
- Slovenian: Ouarzazate
- Spanish: Ouarzazate
- Spanish: Uarzazat
- Spanish: Uarzazate
- Spanish: Warzazat
- Spanish: Warzazāt
- Spanish: Warzāzāt
- Standard Moroccan Tamazight: ⵡⴰⵔⵣⴰⵣⴰⵜ
- Swahili: Ouarzazate
- Swedish: Ouarzazate
- Tachelhit: Warzazat
- Tamil: ஓவர்சாசாடே
- Telugu: ఔర్జాజాతే
- Thai: ออร์ซาเอท
- Turkish: Ouarzazate
- Turkish: Varzazat
- Ukrainian: Варзазат
- Urdu: ورزازات
- Vietnamese: Ouarzazate
- Welsh: Ouarzazate
- Ouarzazate ⵡⴰⵔⵣⴰⵣⴰⵜ ورزازات
- Ouarzazte
- Ouorzazate
- وەرزازات
Other Places Named Ouarzazate
Localities in the Area
- Manjam International developmentNeighbourhood
- El Wahda حي الوحدةSuburb
- Al Qods القدسSuburb
- Douar TajdaNeighbourhood
- TalateVillage
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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 Ouarzazate. Photo: Uspn, CC BY-SA 3.0.