Guelmim-Es Semara (original) (raw)

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Region

Guelmim-Es Semara كلميم السمارة
Region
Location in Morocco
Coordinates: 28°09′N 10°04′W / 28.150°N 10.067°W / 28.150; -10.067
Country	Morocco
Created	1997
Abolished	September 2015
Capital	Guelmim
Area
• Total	122,825 km2 (47,423 sq mi)
Population (2014 census)
• Total	501,921
• Density	4.1/km2 (11/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+0 (WET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+1 (WEST)

Guelmim-Es Semara (Arabic: كلميم السمارة) was one of the sixteen former regions of Morocco from 1997 to 2015. It covered an area of 122,825 square kilometres (47,423 sq mi) and had a population of 501,921 (2014 census).[1] The regional capital was Guelmim.

The southern half of Guelmin-Es Semara formed part of the Western Sahara. The region was bordered to the north by Souss-Massa-Drâa and to the west by Laayoune-Boujdour-Sakia El Hamra, with the Algerian province of Tindouf to the east. Its disputed territory in the Western Sahara bordered the Mauritanian Tiris Zemmour Region. Guelmin-Es Semara had a coastline on the Atlantic Ocean, with the Spanish Canary Islands lying off it. The Draa River, at 1,100 km the longest in Morocco, flowed through the region into the Atlantic Ocean near Tan-Tan.

The region was made up of the following provinces:

Municipalities by population (2004 census)

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Source:[2]

^ "Recensement général de la population et de l'habitat de 2004" (PDF). Haut-commissariat au Plan, Lavieeco.com. Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 July 2012. Retrieved 22 April 2012.
^ Maaroufi, Youssef. "Recensement général de la population et de l'habitat 2004". Archived from the original on 2018-06-19. Retrieved 2012-05-29.
^ Within the Western Sahara