Key facts
- Country
- Morocco
- Capital
- Al Hoceima
- Total
- 24,155 km (9,326 sq mi)
- Time zone
- UTC+0 ( WET )
- Summer dst
- UTC+1 ( WEST )
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Encyclopedic overview
Taza-Al Hoceima-Taounate (Arabic: تازة الحسيمة تاونات) was formerly one of the sixteen regions of Morocco from 1997 to 2015. It was situated in northern Morocco. It covered an area of 24,155 km² and had a population of 1,807,036 (2014 census). The capital was Al Hoceima.
In the 2014 national census, it was the only region in the country whose population was less than in the 2004 census, with 77 fewer residents. In 2015, the region was incorporated with the neighbouring Tangier-Tetouan region to form the Tanger-Tetouan-Al Hoceima region.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Fez-Meknes” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.