Safi is a coastal city on Morocco Atlantic shore and capital of Safi Province, with a population of about 346,000 as of 2024. The city came under Portuguese control in 1488 and remained so until 1541, and during the Second World War American forces landed at Safi on 8 November 1942 as part of Operation Blackstone within the wider Operation Torch. Safi is Morocco's principal fishing port for the sardine industry and also exports phosphates, textiles and ceramics, and it has been home since 1965 to an OCP Group chemical complex that makes it a major center of phosphate processing and fertilizer production.
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1. GeoNames: Safi
GeoNames geonameid 2537881 (Safi), cities500/allCountries bulk dump, matched by primary name + country + coordinates within 25km (w-bbfill-geography6-0926)View the Source 2. Koeppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna): World Map of the Koeppen-Geiger Climate Classification, present climate data
Koeppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna)Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell 32.25, -9.25Quote, Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell 32.25, -9.25
32.25 -9.25 BSh
3. GeoNames: Safi - GeoNames
GeoNamescities500 record 2537881, place matched by name within the country (only place of that name in the country)Quote, cities500 record 2537881, place matched by name within the country (only place of that name in the country)
32.29939 -9.23718 P PPLA2 MA 07 431 1143101031 336883 45 Africa/Casablanca
Safi (Wikipedia)
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