Assa () is a small 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, about south-east of

Guelmim Guelmim is a city in southern Morocco, often called ''Gateway to the Desert''. It is the capital of the Guelmim-Oued Noun region which includes southern Morocco (south of the Souss-Massa region) and the northeastern corner of Western Sahara. The p ...

and about south-west of Foum Zguid. It lies in a desert area north of the Jbel Ouarkziz and is part of the Sahrawi-inhabited southern region of Morocco. The

Draa River :''Dra is also the abbreviation for the constellation Draco.'' The Draa (, ; also spelled Dra or Drâa, in older sources mostly Darha or Dara, ) is Morocco's longest river, at . It is formed by the confluence of the Dadès River and Imini Ri ...

lies to its south, and the N12 highway crosses the town. In the 2012 census Assa had a population of 18,367, the largest in its province and sixth largest in the region. ImageSize = width:220 height:220 PlotArea = left:70 right:40 top:20 bottom:20 TimeAxis = orientation:vertical AlignBars = justify Colors = id:gray1 value:gray(0.9) DateFormat = yyyy Period = from:0 till:19001 ScaleMajor = unit:year increment:2500 start:0 gridcolor:gray1 PlotData = bar:1994 color:gray1 width:1 from:0 till:8323 width:15 text:8,323 textcolor:red fontsize:8px bar:2004 color:gray1 width:1 from:0 till:12905 width:15 text:12,905 textcolor:red fontsize:8px bar:2009 color:gray1 width:1 from:0 till:16382 width:15 text:16,382 textcolor:red fontsize:8px bar:2012 color:gray1 width:1 from:0 till:18367 width:15 text:18,367 textcolor:red fontsize:8px

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Populated places in Guelmim-Oued Noun Articles which contain graphical timelines Assa, Morocco {{GuelmimOuedNoun-geo-stub