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Can you locate all 24 governorates of Tunisia?
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Can you locate all 12 regions of Morocco?
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A Moroccan region tells you which of twelve long slices of the country you are in, and the province is the tier that names a town. It is the number at the end of a civilian number plate, the unit the state uses when it appoints a governor, and the answer to "where in Morocco is that?" once the regions stop being a challenge. This page is the provinces and prefectures, the region each one sits in, and what tells one from its neighbours.
Morocco's second tier is made of provinces and prefectures, and the difference is mostly about whether a place is a city. A prefecture is an urban unit, usually a city and the ring round it; a province is the rural kind, usually named for its largest town. Both are governed by a governor appointed from Rabat, both sit inside exactly one of the twelve regions, and for a quiz they are the same thing, which is why they share one map.
Thirteen of the units are prefectures, and they are the small ones in the north and along the Atlantic: Casablanca, Rabat, Salé, Skhirate-Témara, Mohammédia, Fez, Meknes, Marrakech, Tangier-Assilah, M'diq-Fnideq, Oujda-Angad, Agadir Ida-Outanane and Inezgane-Ait Melloul. The rest are provinces. The names here drop the word, so Casablanca is not "Prefecture of Casablanca"; every name can be switched to Arabic in the start dialog, which is the form on the left of a Moroccan road sign.
The sizes are wildly uneven. Rabat is a little over a hundred square kilometres, and the largest provinces in the Sahara are several hundred times that. The northern half of the map is a crowd of small units, and most of the area is in a handful of enormous ones in the south and east. The smallest prefectures carry a tap area wider than their shape, and a few of them are only comfortable to tap once you zoom in.
Each province belongs to one region, and the game uses that as its groups. The region is read off the same boundaries as the regions game rather than transcribed, so the two always agree. Any of the twelve can be switched on and off in the start dialog, which is the quickest way to learn the map: take one region, learn its provinces, then add the next.
The traps are mostly the same shape: a famous place that is not where its name suggests.
Famous towns and the unit they are in. Chefchaouen, the blue one, is a province of its own in the north. Ifrane, the alpine-looking one, is a province in the Fez-Meknes region. Essaouira is a province in Marrakech-Safi, not part of Agadir's. Merzouga and its dunes are in Errachidia, and Ait Benhaddou is in Ouarzazate.
Provinces named after a place they do not contain. Oujda-Angad is the prefecture round Oujda, and Berkane, Nador and Taourirt are separate provinces beside it, so "near Oujda" is not an answer. Agadir Ida-Outanane is the prefecture and Taroudant, Tiznit and Chtouka-Ait Baha are its neighbours in the same region.
Provinces on the Algerian border. The border runs from the Mediterranean past Figuig and then south into the desert, and a string of provinces touch it: the Oriental's several, then Figuig, Errachidia, Zagora, Tata and Assa-Zag. Figuig is by far the largest of the Oriental's provinces.
Rabat: the prefecture that is the capital and little more, wedged between the Atlantic, the Bou Regreg river and its neighbours Salé and Skhirate-Témara. It is the smallest unit on the map and is easy to lose between the other two, so zoom in before you tap. The three together are the capital's conurbation, and Salé is on the opposite bank of the river.
Figuig: the south-eastern corner of the Oriental region, a huge province of stony desert on the Algerian border named for the palm-oasis town in it. It is several times the size of any other province in its region, which is the quickest way to recognise it on the map.
Chefchaouen: a mountain province in the Rif, inland from Tetouan and M'diq-Fnideq, in the Tangier-Tetouan-Al Hoceima region. The town is the blue-washed one on every photo of northern Morocco, and the province is steep, wet and green, which is a good contrast to the dry units to its south and east.
A prefecture is an urban unit, normally a large city and the area round it, while a province is the rural kind and is usually named for its main town. Both are the same tier of administration, sit directly under one of the twelve regions and are headed by a governor appointed by the king, so this quiz treats them as one map.
Yes. A civilian plate carries a serial number, an Arabic letter and a final number that identifies the province or prefecture. It does not show the region, so the number narrows you to one unit and you still need to know where that unit is. Diplomatic, military and temporary plates use different formats.
The map here is the 62 provinces and 13 prefectures that make up the tier below the twelve regions. New provinces are created from time to time by splitting a larger one, so an older map or dataset may show fewer, and a newer one may show more. If a count in a source disagrees, check its year.
Yes. The southern provinces, which Morocco administers as part of Laayoune-Sakia El Hamra and Dakhla-Oued Ed-Dahab, are on the map as they are in Morocco's own administrative division, the same as in the regions game. Western Sahara's sovereignty is disputed between Morocco and the Polisario Front, and the game takes no position on it.
The prefectures of the Atlantic conurbations, since Rabat, Salé and Skhirate-Témara sit shoulder to shoulder, and Casablanca, Mohammédia, Médiouna and Nouaceur do the same round the biggest city. Further south the large desert provinces are told apart mainly by which border or coast they touch.
The regions come first in Morocco Regions. For other African administrative maps, try Egypt Governorates, Kenya Counties and Tunisia Governorates.
