Sidi Bernoussi () is a district and suburb of northeastern

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, in the

Casablanca-Settat Casablanca-Settat () is one of the twelve administrative regions of Morocco. It covers an area of 20,166 km2 and recorded a population of 7,688,967 in th2024 Moroccan census 69% of which lived in urban areas. The capital of the region is Casabl ...

region of

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. The district covers an area of 38.59 square kilometres (14.9 square miles) and as of 2010 had 503,522 inhabitants. It contains the football club Rachad Bernoussi, established in 1961.

Economy

Sidi Bernoussi is one of the first districts that has opted for Aswaq Namoudajia ( a kind of modernized

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that gathers informal street merchants). One of them is near Almoukhtar Essoussi High School, and another one is near Alfirdaous Mosque.

Subdivisions

The district is divided into two arrondissements: * Sidi Bernoussi (arrondissement) * Sidi Moumen

Notable people

** Hicham Boutizla ** Youssef Safri ** Bouchaib El Moubarki ** Cheba Maria ** Mounir Bahi ** Asmaa Lamnawar ** Mohammed Rabii ** Hicham Louissi

References

Districts of Casablanca {{CasablancaSettat-geo-stub