Agadir, Morocco
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Agadir ⴰⴳⴰⴷⵉⵔ اكادير |
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 Agadir
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| Coordinates: 30°26′N 9°36′W / 30.433°N 9.600°W | |
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 Morocco
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| Region | Souss-Massa |
| Elevation | 74 m (243 ft) |
| Population (2012) | |
| • Total | 600 000 |
| • Rank | 8th in Morocco |
| Time zone | GMT |
| Website | Agadir (French) (Arabic) |
For the international crisis of 1911 see Agadir Crisis
Agadir (Berber: Agadir; Moroccan Arabic: اݣادير) is a major city in Morocco, located on the shore of the Atlantic Ocean near the foot of the Atlas Mountains, just north of the point where the Sous River flows into the ocean. It is at a distance of 508 km to the south of Casablanca. It is the capital of the Agadir-Ida Ou Tanane Prefecture and of the Souss-Massa economic region. A majority of its inhabitants speak Shilha/Tashelhit, a Berber language of the Atlas branch, as their first language.
The city of Agadir together with the neighbouring cities of Inezgane and Ait Melloul was estimated in 2013 to have 609,088 inhabitants.
According to the 2004 census, there were 346,106 inhabitants in that year and the population of the Prefecture of Agadir-Ida Outanane was 487,954 inhabitants.
Agadir is governed by Tariq Kabagge and it's one of the major urban centres of Morocco, the seventh-largest conurbation of the country after Casablanca, Rabat, Fès, Marrakech, Meknes and Tangier. The population density is quite high.
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