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Damietta
Damietta (Arabic: Dumyāṭ) is a port city and capital of Damietta Governorate in Egypt, on the Nile's eastern branch a few miles from the Mediterranean.
Djelfa
Djelfa (الجلفة), Algeria: capital of Djelfa wilaya on the High Plateaus, 300 km south of Algiers. Founded as a French military post in 1852, formalized 1861; steppe sheep-farming and administrative center.
El Jadida (الجديدة)
El Jadida (الجديدة), formerly Mazagan (Mazagão), is a Moroccan Atlantic coastal city 90 km southwest of Casablanca, provincial capital of about 237,000 people, whose UNESCO-listed 16th-century Portuguese star fortress, cistern, and Manueline church date from 1514–1548; the Portuguese left in 1769.
Essaouira (الصويرة)
Essaouira (الصويرة), formerly Mogador, is a fortified Atlantic port city in Morocco founded in the mid-18th century by Sultan Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdallah and designed by a Vauban-influenced French architect; its medina has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2001.
Fez (فاس)
Fez (فاس), northern Morocco's city of over one million people, founded by the Idrisids 789–808, Marinid capital in the 13th–14th centuries; its medina is a 280-ha UNESCO World Heritage Site (1981).
Fez, Morocco
Fez (فاس, Fes), Morocco's third-largest city (1,167,842 residents, 2024 census), founded by the Idrisids 789–808 AD; Marinid capital, home of al-Qarawiyyin, UNESCO-listed medina since 1981.
Gedaref
Gedaref (القضارف, Al Qadarif, El-Gadarif) is the capital city of Al Qadarif State in eastern Sudan, near the Ethiopian border. It anchors Sudan's largest rain-fed farming region, producing most of the country's sorghum and sesame, and hosts large displaced and refugee populations.
Giza (الجيزة)
Giza, also known as Al Jizah, is a major Egyptian city on the Nile opposite Cairo, capital of the Giza governorate and site of the pyramids.
Hurghada (الغردقة)
Hurghada (الغردقة) is a Red Sea resort city and capital of Egypt's Red Sea Governorate, population about 280,000. A former fishing village turned diving and beach tourism hub, served by Hurghada International Airport (13 million passenger capacity).
Idkū
Idkū (إدكو, also Edku) is a city of about 105,875 people (2026) in Beheira Governorate, Egypt, at 31.3058°N, 30.2956°E, on Lake Idku, a 13,000-hectare brackish Nile Delta lagoon and major fishery.
Ismailia
Ismailia (الإسماعيلية), capital of Egypt's Ismailia Governorate on Lake Timsah at the Suez Canal's midpoint; founded 1863 by Ferdinand de Lesseps as Egypt's first company town, evacuated in 1967, rebuilt, and home to the Suez Canal Authority.
Kafr ash Shaykh
Kafr ash Shaykh (كفر الشيخ, Kafr El-Sheikh), capital of Egypt's Kafr El-Sheikh Governorate in the Nile Delta, about 130 km from Cairo; rice, sugar beet, and fish production center near Lake Burullus and ancient Buto.
Kenitra (القنيطرة)
Kenitra (القنيطرة) is a city in northwestern Morocco, built in 1912 as a French protectorate port, initially named Port-Lyautey, before its official renaming during independence in 1956.
Khouribga
Khouribga (خريبكة), Morocco: phosphate-mining city in Beni Mellal-Khenifra, founded 1921-1923 around OCP's Ouled Abdoun mines; city population about 214,000, province 518,610 (2024 census), elevation about 804 m.
Ksar el-Kebir (القصر الكبير)
Ksar el-Kebir (القصر الكبير) is a city in Larache Province, northern Morocco, on the Loukkos River, site of the 1578 Battle of the Three Kings and largely evacuated during the February 2026 Loukkos floods.
Laayoune (العيون)
Laayoune (العيون) is the largest city of Western Sahara, capital of Morocco's Laâyoune-Sakia El Hamra region, about 260,000 people, founded by Spain in 1938, with a major fishing port, the Bou Craa phosphate conveyor, and seawater desalination.
Larache (العرائش)
Larache (العرائش) is a Moroccan Atlantic port city at the mouth of the Oued Loukkos, opposite the ancient ruins of Lixus, held by Spain 1610–1689 and 1911–1956, capital of a 513,936-person province.
List of cities and towns in Egypt
Cities and towns of Egypt: about 250 administratively urban units, four urban governorates (Cairo, Alexandria, Port Said, Suez), 231 cities per GOPP, plus the 20-city new cities program and the New Administrative Capital.
Luxor (الأقصر)
Luxor (الأقصر), southern Egyptian city on the Nile, stands on ancient Thebes (Waset), New Kingdom capital. Known for Karnak, Luxor Temple, Valley of the Kings; UNESCO World Heritage since 1979.
Mallawī
Mallawī (Arabic ملوي, Coptic ⲙⲁⲛⲗⲁⱩ, "place of textiles") is a city on the west bank of the Nile in Minya Governorate, Egypt, about 38 km south of Minya; agricultural market town, home of the Mallawi Museum looted in 2013 and reopened 2016. Not the country Malawi.
Marrakesh (مراكش)
Marrakesh (Marrakech) is a major city in central Morocco and a former imperial capital, founded by the Almoravids around 1070, with about 1.6 million people.
Meknes
Meknes (Arabic: مكناس) is a city in north-central Morocco and one of its four imperial cities, the capital of Sultan Moulay Ismaïl in the 17th century.
Minya
Minya (المنيا), the "Bride of Upper Egypt", is a Nile city about 250 km south of Cairo and capital of Egypt's most populous Upper Egypt governorate, with ancient roots as Oryx and Menat Khufu.
Misratah
Misratah (Misrata, مصراتة, Misurata) is Libya's third largest city, a Mediterranean port about 187 km east of Tripoli, with a Berber name meaning place of plentiful water, the country's largest seaport, LISCO steel, and a free zone.
Mohammedia
Mohammedia (المحمدية), formerly Fedala, is a port city in Casablanca-Settat, Morocco, between Casablanca and Rabat. Population about 322,000; it hosts the Samir refinery and a port handling about 95% of Morocco's hydrocarbon imports.
Monastir, Tunisia
Monastir (المنستير) is a peninsula city and port on Tunisia's eastern coast, capital of Monastir governorate (599,769 inhabitants, 2024). Known for its 796 ribat, Bourguiba's birthplace and mausoleum, beach tourism, textiles, and an eroding, eutrophic bay.
Mostaganem
Mostaganem (مستغانم), city and port in northwestern Algeria about 80 km east of Oran; Phoenician Murustaga, Ottoman then French colonial town, now a university and port city of about 146,000 people.
Nador (city)
Nador (الناظور) is a coastal city in Morocco's Oriental region near Melilla, on the Marchica lagoon; population about 176,600, with the Nador West Med port, MAD 20 billion private investment, and a 104 km motorway link.
New Administrative Capital (العاصمة الإدارية الجديدة)
Egypt's New Administrative Capital (العاصمة الإدارية الجديدة), announced in 2015 by President El-Sisi, is a planned government and financial city 45-60 km east of Cairo, developed by ACUD at a reported cost of USD 45 billion.
New Cairo
New Cairo (القاهرة الجديدة) is a planned Egyptian city founded in 2000 by decree 191 east of Cairo to relieve congestion; over 300,000 residents, gated communities, Fifth Settlement, and the East Nile Monorail.