Oujda
Oujda is a major city in northeast Morocco near the border with Algeria.
Oujda is a major city in northeast Morocco near the border with Algeria. Oujda is the largest city and capital of the Oriental region of northeastern Morocco and has a population of 506,224 people. It is located about 15 kilometres west of the Moroccan-Algerian border in the south of the Beni Iznassen Mountains and about 55 km south of the Mediterranean coast.
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Worth seeing in and around Oujda
4 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Honor Stadium
Honor Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium in Oujda, Morocco. It is used mostly for football matches, and it's the 7th largest stadium of Morocco.
3.7 km · building in Morocco · Wikipedia - 02The Great Mosque of Oujda
The Grand Mosque of Oujda is the historic main Friday mosque of Oujda, Morocco. The mosque was founded by the Marinid sultan Abu Ya'qub Yusuf in 1296.
800 m · Mosque in Oujda, Morocco · Wikipedia - 03Mohamed I University
Mohamed First University, Oujda, Morocco, was founded in 1978. The university has more than 21,200 students on the sites of Oujda and Nador.
4.2 km · University in Morocco · Wikipedia - 04Jbel Hamra
Jbel Hamra is a mountain located in Oriental Region, Oujda, Morocco. The estimated terrain elevation above sea level is 781 m.
5.9 km · mountain in Morocco · Wikipedia
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What Wikivoyage says to see
- 01Bab Sidi Abdel Wahab
- 02Parc Lalla Aicha
- 03Parc Lalla Meryem
Another park with garden and cafe (Cafe El Methef), on the south side of the medina, if you can figure out how to get out of there.
From Wikivoyage: Oujda, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.
Things to do
- 01SIDI MAAFA Forest
From Wikivoyage: Oujda, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.
Getting to Oujda
- Airports
- Oujda Angads (OUD), 12 km · Zenata – Messali El Hadj (TLM), 55 km · Nador Al Aaroui (NDR), 107 km
- Al Aaroui → Oujda107 km · quickest by road, 2h 56m · MAD55–75
- Saïss → Oujda294 km · quickest by road, 4h 37m · MAD135–180
- Tétouan → Oujda330 km · quickest by road, 9h 45m · MAD195–260
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No local-transport research exists yet for Oujda
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Oujda. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
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