Sale is a city in northwestern Morocco on the right bank of the Bou Regreg river directly across from the national capital Rabat, functioning largely as its commuter partner, with a population of 1,089,554 recorded in the 2024 Moroccan census. Founded in the eleventh century as a medieval merchant port and entrepot, Sale became notorious in the seventeenth century as a pirate haven and the base of the Sale Rovers, who formed an independent corsair republic. The city preserves extensive Marinid-era architecture from the thirteenth to fifteenth centuries, including its Great Mosque and the Madrasa of Abu al-Hasan, and today hosts the Rabat-Sale region's main international airport, linked to Rabat by tramway.
Facts
Founding Year Population Estimate Year Elevation (m) Elevation Band Climate Zone Sources
1. Salé (Wikidata)
P1082 (population)
population 945,101 (2024)
P625 (coordinate location)
latitude 34.05, longitude -6.816667
P2044 (elevation above sea level)
elevation 116 m
P1082 (population), P585 (point in time)
population 945101 (2024)
View the Source2. Salé (Wikipedia)
- Wikipedia infobox 'Established' = '11th century' on 'Salé'
- In Group: Cities of Northern Africa (World), Wikipedia; part-of country and UN M49 subregion
View the Source3. GeoNames: Salé - GeoNames
GeoNamesPlace record, elevationQuote, Place record, elevation
Elevation ca. 34 m
4. 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 34.25, -6.75Quote, Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell 34.25, -6.75
34.25 -6.75 Csa
5. GeoNames: Salé - GeoNames
GeoNamescities500 record 2537763Quote, cities500 record 2537763
34.0531 -6.79846 P PPL MA 04 441 972299 34 Africa/Casablanca
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