Key facts
- Country
- Morocco
- Capital
- Oujda
- Wali governor
- Abdelfettah El Houmam
- Total
- 82,900 km (32,000 sq mi)
- Time zone
- UTC+0 ( WET )
- Summer dst
- UTC+1 ( WEST )
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Oriental (Arabic: الجهة الشرقية) is one of the sixteen former regions of Morocco. It covers an area of 82,900 km and has a population of 1,918,094 (2004 census). The capital and largest city is Oujda, and the second largest city is Nador.
Geography
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Oriental” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.