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Oujda
City in Oriental, Morocco

Oujda

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.

Get in

Getting to Oujda

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    Oujda Angads Airport

    There are daily direct flights from Amsterdam, Paris, Marseille, Madrid and other cities in Morocco.

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    Oujda

    Oujda is accessible from the north via Melilla and Nador, or from the west via Fes and Taza.

See

Worth seeing

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    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.

Do

Things to do

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    SIDI MAAFA Forest

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