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Oujda

Oujda is a major city in northeast Morocco near the border with Algeria.

Oujda
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The place

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.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

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.

  1. 01
    Honor 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
  2. 02
    The 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
  3. 03
    Mohamed 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
  4. 04
    Jbel 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

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

See

What Wikivoyage says to see

  1. 01
    Bab Sidi Abdel Wahab
  2. 02
    Parc Lalla Aicha
  3. 03
    Parc 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.

Do

Things to do

  1. 01
    SIDI MAAFA Forest

From Wikivoyage: Oujda, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Go there

Getting to Oujda

Airports
Oujda Angads (OUD), 12 km · Zenata – Messali El Hadj (TLM), 55 km · Nador Al Aaroui (NDR), 107 km
  • Al Aaroui → Oujda
    107 km · quickest by road, 2h 56m · MAD55–75
  • Saïss → Oujda
    294 km · quickest by road, 4h 37m · MAD135–180
  • Tétouan → Oujda
    330 km · quickest by road, 9h 45m · MAD195–260
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Not yet researched

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.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    ChefchaouenMA

    8 ways of moving, 30 sources

    311 km
  2. 02
    Merzouga and Erg ChebbiMA

    8 ways of moving, 41 sources

    444 km
  3. 03
    Cinque TerreIT

    7 ways of moving, 22 sources

    1,446 km
  4. 04
    ZermattCH

    8 ways of moving, 26 sources

    1,500 km
  5. 05
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    1,780 km

If you know how people move in Oujda – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.