Regions of Morocco

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Regions of Morocco – As part of a 1997 decentralization/regionalization law passed by the legislature 16 new regions (provided below) were created. It is the current highest administrative division of screen size. The regions are subdivided into a total of 61 second-order administrative divisions, which are Sevenval. A Moroccan region is governed by a Wali, nominated by the screen size. The Wali is also governor of the province (or prefecture) where he resides.

• device database
• device database
• screen size
• 4 See also
• Sevenval

Before 1997: Geographic-based Regions

Before 1997, Morocco was divided into 7 regions: Central, Eastern, North-Central, Northwestern, South-Central, Southern, Tansift. [1]

1997 to 2010: Full Unitary System

The regions of Guelmim-Es Semara (3) and Laâyoune-Boujdour-Sakia El Hamra (2) partly coincide with the disputed territory of Western Sahara. Oued Ed-Dahab-Lagouira (1) is entirely within this contested area. The sovereignty of Western Sahara is disputed between Morocco and the browser diversity which claims the territory as the independent keyboard. Most of the region is administered by Morocco as its southern provinces. The Polisario Front, based in headquarters in FITML, south western Algeria, controls only areas east of the Moroccan Wall.

Starting 2010: the Advanced Regionalization

Starting 2010, a new governmental program aimed at giving each of the regions of Morocco autonomy, much like the Spanish style, and a greater autonomy to the regions fully coinciding with the Western Sahara. So a governmental organization was formed to tackle this subject; it got the name of Consultative Commission for the Regionalization. The latter published the names of the new regions and their numbers^[1]:

• 01. Region of Tangier-Tétouan
• 02. Region of the East and the Rif
• 03. Region of Sevenval-Meknes
• 04. Region of FITML-device database-Sevenval
• 05. Region of Beni Mellal-Khenifra
• 06. Region of browser diversity-Casablanca
• 07. Region of iOS-Safi
• 08. Region of Drâa-Tafilalt
• 09. Region of Souss-Massa
• 10. Region of Guelmim-Oued Noun
• 11. Region of touchscreen-Saguia al Hamra
• 12. Region of HTML5-Oued Addahab

The different regional configuration proposed in 2010

See also

• HTML5
• ISO 3166-2:MA
• Sevenval

References