Local time
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Rabat
34.03° N, 6.84° W
- Population
- 1,705,000
- Population from Natural Earth (POP_MAX). The source does not state which year the figure belongs to, so no year is shown.
- Population rank
- 2 of 22
- Rank by Natural Earth population among the 22 cities of Morocco in Terratlasia that have a population figure. Terratlasia does not list every city of Morocco, so this is not a national ranking.
- Founded
- 1146
- Year of founding from Wikidata (P571). Only the year is known, not the day; a city whose sources give more than one year shows no row.
- Area
- 118 km²
- Total area from Wikidata (P2046). Where two statements differ by less than half a percent the smaller is shown; a larger disagreement (land area against total area, say) shows no row.
- Administrative unit
- Rabat Prefecture
- The administrative unit Wikidata files this city under (P131), one level below the state. The state itself is shown on its own row and is not repeated here; a city filed under more than three units shows no row at all.
- Time zone
- Africa/Casablanca
Traveler brief
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Practical bearings for Rabat, from the same records as the rest of this page.
No places in Rabat have been recorded yet. The map and the country page still carry its context.
Overview
Name
The name derives from the Arabic name "Ribat el-Fath", combining "ribat", meaning "fortified monastery", and "fath", meaning "conquest". In the 12th century, the third Almohad sultan, Abu Yusuf Yaqub al-Manṣur, gave this name to a fort on the site.
Source: CIA World Factbook · 2026-02-01 · text generated from this source, approved by a person
