Skip to content
Suss-Massa-Draa

File:Souss-Massa-Draa_in_Morocco_(de-facto).svg · Wikimedia Commons · See Wikimedia Commons

EntityQ264529· pop 38· linked from 178 articles

Suss-Massa-Draa

Sign in to save

Also known as Souss-Massa-Drâa

Souss-Massa-Drâa () was formerly one of the sixteen regions of Morocco from 1997 to 2015. It covered an area of 70,880 km2 and had a population of 3,601,917 (2014 census). The capital is Agadir. One of the major languages spoken in this region of Morocco is tasoussit variant of Tashelhit.

Key facts

Settlement.name
Souss-Massa-Drâa
Settlement.settlement_type
Region
Settlement.image_map
File:Souss-Massa-Draa in Morocco (de-facto).svg
Settlement.map_caption
Location in Morocco
Settlement.subdivision_type
Country
Settlement.established_title
Created
Settlement.established_date
1997
Settlement.extinct_title
Abolished
Settlement.extinct_date
September 2015
Settlement.seat_type
Capital
Settlement.seat
Agadir
Settlement.leader_title
Wali
Settlement.area_total_km2
70880
Settlement.population_total
3601917
Settlement.population_as_of
2014 census
Settlement.population_density_km2
auto
Settlement.timezone
WET
Settlement.utc_offset
+0

via Wikipedia infobox

Wikidata facts

Named after
Draa River
Country
Morocco
Located in
Morocco
Capital
Agadir
Area
70880
Image
Landscape east of Biougra.JPG
Show 4 more facts
Commons category
Souss-Massa-Draâ
topic's main category
Category:Souss-Massa-Draâ
dissolved, abolished or demolished date
2021-00-00
native label
‫سوس ماسة درعة‬
Sources (4)

via Wikidata · CC0

~1 min read

Encyclopedic overview

2 sections
Contents
  • Administrative divisions
  • External links

Souss-Massa-Drâa () was formerly one of the sixteen regions of Morocco from 1997 to 2015. It covered an area of 70,880 km2 and had a population of 3,601,917 (2014 census). The capital is Agadir. One of the major languages spoken in this region of Morocco is tasoussit variant of Tashelhit.

==Administrative divisions== The region was made up of the following provinces and prefectures: Prefecture of Agadir-Ida-Ou Tanane (now part of the Souss-Massa Region) Préfecture of Inezgane-Ait Melloul (now part of the Souss-Massa Region) Shtouka Ait Baha Province (now part of the Souss-Massa Region) Ouarzazate Province (now part of the Drâa-Tafilalet Region) Sidi Ifni Province (since 2009; now part of the Guelmim-Oued Noun Region) Taroudant Province (now part of the Souss-Massa Region) Tinghir Province (since 2009; now part of the Drâa-Tafilalet Region) Tiznit Province (now part of the Souss-Massa Region) Zagora Province (now part of the Drâa-Tafilalet Region)

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Suss-Massa-Draa” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

On the map

2 mapped locations