Zag (pronounced Ezzag) (Arabic: الزاك (''az-Zāq'')) is a town in southern
Morocco
Morocco, officially the Kingdom of Morocco, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It has coastlines on the Mediterranean Sea to the north and the Atlantic Ocean to the west, and has land borders with Algeria to Algeria–Morocc ...
, in the
Assa-Zag province of the
Guelmim-Oued Noun
Guelmim-Oued Noun () is one of the twelve regions of Morocco, regions of Morocco. The southeastern part of the region is located in the disputed territory of Western Sahara and a small strip of land in this area is administered by the Sahrawi A ...
region. It lies to the south of the town of
Assa and is the last settlement on the road south from there until
Western Sahara
Western Sahara is a territorial dispute, disputed territory in Maghreb, North-western Africa. It has a surface area of . Approximately 30% of the territory () is controlled by the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR); the remaining 70% is ...
. According to the 2004 census Zag had a population of 7,751, the second-highest in the province behind Assa and the eighth-highest in the region.
References
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Populated places in Guelmim-Oued Noun