Sidi Bernoussi ( ar, سيدي البرنوصي) is a district and suburb of northeastern
Casablanca
Casablanca, also known in Arabic as Dar al-Bayda ( ar, الدَّار الْبَيْضَاء, al-Dār al-Bayḍāʾ, ; ber, ⴹⴹⴰⵕⵍⴱⵉⴹⴰ, ḍḍaṛlbiḍa, : "White House") is the largest city in Morocco and the country's econom ...
, in the
Casablanca-Settat
Casablanca-Settat ( ar, الدار البيضاء - سطات, ad-dār al-bayḍāʾ - siṭṭāt; ber, ⴰⵏⴼⴰ - ⵙⵟⵟⴰⵜ, anfa - sṭṭat) is one of the twelve administrative regions of Morocco. It covers an area of 20,166 km² ...
region of
Morocco
Morocco (),, ) officially the Kingdom of Morocco, is the westernmost country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It overlooks the Mediterranean Sea to the north and the Atlantic Ocean to the west, and has land borders with Algeria to ...
. 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
souk
A bazaar () or souk (; also transliterated as souq) is a marketplace consisting of multiple small stalls or shops, especially in the Middle East, the Balkans, North Africa and India. However, temporary open markets elsewhere, such as in the W ...
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:
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Sidi Bernoussi (arrondissement)
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Hay El-Qods
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Sidi Moumen
Notable people
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Hicham Boutizla
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Redouane M'Kiddem
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Bouchaib El Moubarki
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Youssef Safri
References
Districts of Casablanca
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