Ahfir
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Ahfir () is a town in Berkane Province, Oriental, Morocco, adjacent the border with Algeria. According to the 2004 census,mostly composed of Arab population, it has a population of 19,482. The name Ahfir refers to the stone quarry which was exploited in this village founded by Hubert Lyautey at the time of the French protectorate, was the gateway to the French invasion by Lyautey in 1907 leading to the imposition of the French protectorate from 1912 until 1956.
Key facts
- Settlement.official_name
- Ahfir
- Settlement.other_name
- احفير
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Town
- Settlement.map_caption
- Berkane Province
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Morocco#Africa
- Settlement.pushpin_relief
- 1
- Settlement.pushpin_label_position
- bottom
- Settlement.pushpin_mapsize
- 300
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Location in Morocco
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Region
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Oujda region
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- Province
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Berkane Province
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 2004
- Settlement.population_total
- 19482
- Settlement.timezone
- WET
- Settlement.utc_offset
- +0
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- border city
- Official name
- Ahfir
- Country
- Morocco
- Located in
- Berkane Province
- Population
- 16310
- Elevation
- 268
- Shares border with
- Berkane
- Image
- Ahfir, Berkane Province, Oriental Region, Morocco.jpg
- Households
- 4612
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- postal code
- 63050
- native label
- ⴰⵃⴼⵉⵔ
- Commons category
- Ahfir
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Encyclopedic overview
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Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ahfir” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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