In Morocco, the 75 second-level administrative subdivisions are 13 prefectures and 62 provinces. They are subdivisions of the 12 regions of Morocco.[1] Each prefecture or province is subdivided into arrondissements (only in prefectures of some metropolitan areas), municipalities (communes, sing. commune) or urban municipalities (communes urbaines, sing. commune urbaine) in other urban areas, and districts (cercles, sing. cercle) in rural areas. The districts are subdivided into rural municipalities (communes rurales, sing. commune rural). One prefecture (Casablanca) is also subdivided into préfectures d'arrondissements (sing. préfecture d'arrondissements), similar to districts (cercles) except they are grouping a few arrondissements instead of rural municipalities.

Note: The arrondissements and (urban) municipalities should probably be thought of as fourth-level subdivisions, on the same level as the rural municipalities, but they are not part of any district.[2]

Moroccan administrative division

List of prefectures and provinces

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Seats / Headquarters

Location Region Province / Prefecture Seat
Mainland MoroccoBéni Mellal-Khénifra RegionAzilal ProvinceAzilal
Mainland MoroccoBéni Mellal-Khénifra RegionBéni-Mellal ProvinceBeni Mellal
Mainland MoroccoBéni Mellal-Khénifra RegionFquih Ben Salah ProvinceFquih Ben Salah
Mainland MoroccoBéni Mellal-Khénifra RegionKhénifra ProvinceKhenifra
Mainland MoroccoBéni Mellal-Khénifra RegionKhouribga ProvinceKhouribga
Mainland MoroccoCasablanca-Settat RegionBenslimane ProvinceBenslimane
Mainland MoroccoCasablanca-Settat RegionBerrechid ProvinceBerrechid
Mainland MoroccoCasablanca-Settat RegionCasablanca PrefectureCasablanca
Mainland MoroccoCasablanca-Settat RegionEl Jadida ProvinceEl Jadida
Mainland MoroccoCasablanca-Settat RegionMédiouna ProvinceMediouna
Mainland MoroccoCasablanca-Settat RegionMohammedia PrefectureMohammedia
Mainland MoroccoCasablanca-Settat RegionNouaceur ProvinceNouaceur
Mainland MoroccoCasablanca-Settat RegionSettat ProvinceSettat
Mainland MoroccoCasablanca-Settat RegionSidi Bennour ProvinceSidi Bennour
Mainland MoroccoDrâa-Tafilalet RegionErrachidia ProvinceErrachidia
Mainland MoroccoDrâa-Tafilalet RegionMidelt ProvinceMidelt
Mainland MoroccoDrâa-Tafilalet RegionOuarzazate ProvinceOuarzazate
Mainland MoroccoDrâa-Tafilalet RegionTinghir ProvinceTinghir
Mainland MoroccoDrâa-Tafilalet RegionZagora ProvinceZagora
Mainland MoroccoFès-Meknès RegionBoulemane ProvinceBoulemane
Mainland MoroccoFès-Meknès RegionEl Hajeb ProvinceEl Hajeb
Mainland MoroccoFès-Meknès RegionFez PrefectureFez
Mainland MoroccoFès-Meknès RegionIfrane ProvinceIfrane
Mainland MoroccoFès-Meknès RegionMeknès PrefectureMeknes
Mainland MoroccoFès-Meknès RegionMoulay Yacoub ProvinceMoulay Yacoub
Mainland MoroccoFès-Meknès RegionSefrou ProvinceSefrou
Mainland MoroccoFès-Meknès RegionTaounate ProvinceTaounate
Mainland MoroccoFès-Meknès RegionTaza ProvinceTaza
Mainland MoroccoMarrakesh-Safi RegionAl Haouz ProvinceTahannaout
Mainland MoroccoMarrakesh-Safi RegionChichaoua ProvinceChichaoua
Mainland MoroccoMarrakesh-Safi RegionEl Kelâa des Sraghna ProvinceKalaat Sraghna
Mainland MoroccoMarrakesh-Safi RegionEssaouira ProvinceEssaouira
Mainland MoroccoMarrakesh-Safi RegionMarrakesh PrefectureMarrakesh
Mainland MoroccoMarrakesh-Safi RegionRehamna ProvinceBen Guerir
Mainland MoroccoMarrakesh-Safi RegionSafi ProvinceSafi
Mainland MoroccoMarrakesh-Safi RegionYoussoufia ProvinceYoussoufia
Mainland MoroccoOriental RegionBerkane ProvinceBerkane
Mainland MoroccoOriental RegionDriouch ProvinceDriouch
Mainland MoroccoOriental RegionFiguig ProvinceFiguig
Mainland MoroccoOriental RegionGuercif ProvinceGuercif
Mainland MoroccoOriental RegionJerada ProvinceJerada
Mainland MoroccoOriental RegionNador ProvinceNador
Mainland MoroccoOriental RegionOujda-Angad PrefectureOujda
Mainland MoroccoOriental RegionTaourirt ProvinceTaourirt
Mainland MoroccoRabat-Salé-Kénitra RegionKénitra ProvinceKenitra
Mainland MoroccoRabat-Salé-Kénitra RegionKhémisset ProvinceKhemisset
Mainland MoroccoRabat-Salé-Kénitra RegionRabat PrefectureRabat
Mainland MoroccoRabat-Salé-Kénitra RegionSalé PrefectureSalé
Mainland MoroccoRabat-Salé-Kénitra RegionSidi Kacem ProvinceSidi Kacem
Mainland MoroccoRabat-Salé-Kénitra RegionSidi Slimane ProvinceSidi Slimane
Mainland MoroccoRabat-Salé-Kénitra RegionSkhirate-Témara PrefectureTemara
Mainland MoroccoSouss-Massa RegionAgadir-Ida Ou Tanane PrefectureAgadir
Mainland MoroccoSouss-Massa RegionChtouka Aït Baha ProvinceBiougra
Mainland MoroccoSouss-Massa RegionInezgane-Aït Melloul PrefectureInezgane
Mainland MoroccoSouss-Massa RegionTaroudant ProvinceTaroudant
Mainland MoroccoSouss-Massa RegionTata ProvinceTata
Mainland MoroccoSouss-Massa RegionTiznit ProvinceTiznit
Mainland MoroccoTanger-Tetouan-Al Hoceima RegionAl Hoceïma ProvinceAl Hoceima
Mainland MoroccoTanger-Tetouan-Al Hoceima RegionChefchaouen ProvinceChefchaouen
Mainland MoroccoTanger-Tetouan-Al Hoceima RegionFahs-Anjra ProvinceAnjra
Mainland MoroccoTanger-Tetouan-Al Hoceima RegionLarache ProvinceLarache
Mainland MoroccoTanger-Tetouan-Al Hoceima RegionM'diq-Fnideq PrefectureM'diq
Mainland MoroccoTanger-Tetouan-Al Hoceima RegionOuezzane ProvinceOuazzane
Mainland MoroccoTanger-Tetouan-Al Hoceima RegionTangier-Assilah PrefectureTangier
Mainland MoroccoTanger-Tetouan-Al Hoceima RegionTétouan ProvinceTétouan
Western SaharaDakhla-Oued Ed-Dahab RegionAousserd ProvinceAousserd
Western SaharaDakhla-Oued Ed-Dahab RegionOued Ed-Dahab ProvinceDakhla
Western SaharaGuelmim-Oued Noun RegionAssa-Zag ProvinceAssa
Western SaharaGuelmim-Oued Noun RegionGuelmim ProvinceGuelmim
Western SaharaGuelmim-Oued Noun RegionSidi Ifni ProvinceSidi Ifni
Western SaharaGuelmim-Oued Noun RegionTan-Tan ProvinceTan-Tan
Western SaharaLaâyoune-Sakia El Hamra RegionBoujdour ProvinceBoujdour
Western SaharaLaâyoune-Sakia El Hamra RegionEs Semara ProvinceSmara
Western SaharaLaâyoune-Sakia El Hamra RegionLaâyoune ProvinceLaayoune
Western SaharaLaâyoune-Sakia El Hamra RegionTarfaya ProvinceTarfaya

Mainland Morocco

Tanger-Tetouan-Al Hoceima Region

Oriental Region

Fès-Meknès Region

Rabat-Salé-Kénitra Region

Béni Mellal-Khénifra Region

Casablanca-Settat Region

Marrakech-Safi Region

Drâa-Tafilalet Region

Souss-Massa Region

Western Sahara (most under de facto Moroccan administration)

Most of Western Sahara is administered de facto by Morocco (where the area is informally named the Southern Provinces by the Moroccan government and media); the rest is administered by the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic.

The United Nations considers the territory to be disputed, as it was not legally transferred by Spain when it abandoned its former colony in 1975, and several states (notably members of the African Union) either recognize the SADR as the sole legitimate government of Western Sahara, or consider that the status of the region (either as an independent state, or as part of Morocco, or as part of Mauritania that initially claimed a part of it) has still not been autodetermined by the local population prior to its annexation. The United Nations has no legal instruments confirming the claims on the region made by the governments of Morocco or the self-proclaimed SADR, and in international treaties, it is still a formal part of Spain that remains to be properly decolonized, even though Spain and Mauritania no longer claim any part of it.

Since the annexation, the situation is worsened by the fact that most of the historic Western Saharan population has fled either to the remaining free zone (now isolated by the Moroccan militarized berm) or to refugee camps in neighbouring countries (notably Algeria), due to lack of resources in the free zone. The remaining native Western Saharan population now lives as a minority among the new Moroccan occupants. The absence of a legal government with a permanent administration in the free zone has also introduced a threat to the security of the surrounding countries in the Saharan and Sahel regions, including Morocco itself.

Guelmim-Oued Noun Region

Laâyoune-Sakia El Hamra Region

Dakhla-Oued Ed-Dahab Region

Before 2015

Mainland Morocco

Chaouia-Ouardigha Region

Greater Casablanca Region

Tadla-Azilal Region

Doukkala-Abda Region

Marrakech-Tensift-El Haouz Region

Fès-Boulemane Region

Taza-Al Hoceima-Taounate Region

Gharb-Chrarda-Béni Hssen Region

Rabat-Salé-Zemmour-Zaer Region

Tangier-Tétouan Region

Oriental Region

Meknès-Tafilalet Region

Souss-Massa-Drâa Region

Moroccan Sahara (most under de facto Moroccan administration)

Guelmim-Es Semara Region

Laâyoune-Boujdour-Sakia El Hamra Region

Oued Ed-Dahab-Lagouira Region

Wilaya

In Morocco, a wilaya is an administrative division created in 1981 that "brings together many provinces or prefectures or both at the same time, and is intended to endow big urban units such as Casablanca with an administrative organization capable of meeting the needs that emerge from these expanding cities and their growing populations."[3] Therefore, strictly speaking, the level of wilayas are between the regions and prefectures/provinces (although wilayas only cover urban areas). However, they are often used synonymous with regions or prefectures/provinces in common usage.[4]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "Population légale d'après les résultats du RGPH 2014 sur le Bulletin officiel N° 6354" (PDF). Haut-Commissariat au Plan (in Arabic). Retrieved 2015-07-11.
  2. HCP.ma List of districts and municipalities (communes) of Morocco by province/prefecture Archived 2009-04-18 at the Wayback Machine
  3. The Wilaya of Grand Casablanca Archived May 1, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
  4. Wilayas, Prefectures and Provinces Archived July 19, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
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