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Place details
- Locality
- Dakhla ⴷⴰⵅⵍⴰ الداخلة
- Region
- Oued Ed-Dahab-Lagouira
- Country
- Maroc ⵍⵎⵖⵔⵉⴱ المغرب
- Population
- 106,277
- Timezone
- Africa/El_Aaiun
via OpenStreetMap · GeoNames
Key facts
- Non self governing territory
- Western Sahara
- Claimed by
- Morocco , Sahrawi Republic
- Controlled by
- Morocco
- Region
- Dakhla-Oued Ed-Dahab
- Province
- Oued Ed-Dahab
- Total
- 301.45 km (116.39 sq mi)
- Density
- 536.48/km (1,389.5/sq mi)
- Time zone
- UTC +1
via Wikipedia infobox
Key dates
- Inception
- 1884
via Wikidata · CC0
Wikidata facts
- Part of
- Western Sahara
- Official name
- Dakhla
- Country
- Mauritania
- Located in
- Oued Ed-Dahab Province
- Population
- +165463
- Elevation
- +10
- Capital of
- Oued Ed-Dahab Province
- Official website
- www.dakhla.ma
- Image
- Dakhla, Western Sahara (11).jpg
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Article
Dakhla (Arabic: الداخلة, lit. 'The Peninsula', Hassaniyya: [ˌəd.daːχlə] ; founded as Villa Cisneros) is a city in the disputed territory of Western Sahara, and has been occupied by Morocco since 1976. It is the capital of the claimed Moroccan administrative region Dakhla-Oued Ed-Dahab. It has a population of 161,723 and is on a narrow peninsula of the Atlantic Coast, the Río de Oro Peninsula, about 550 km (340 mi) south of Laayoune.
History