Tafersit (

Tarifit Tarifit (, ; ), also known as Riffian is a Zenati Berber language spoken in the Rif region in northern Morocco. It is spoken natively by some 1,200,000 Riffians, comprising 3.2% of the population, primarily in the Rif provinces of Nador, Al ...

: Tfaasit, ⵜⴰⴼⴻⵔⵙⵉⵜ;

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: تفرسيت) is a commune in

Driouch Province Driouch Province () is a province in Morocco that was formed in 2009 by dividing the Nador Province into two parts, all falling under the Oriental (Morocco), Oriental administrative region of northeastern Morocco. The province of Driouch has a po ...

Oriental The Orient is a term referring to the East in relation to Europe, traditionally comprising anything belonging to the Eastern world. It is the antonym of the term ''Occident'', which refers to the Western world. In English, it is largely a meto ...

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. The town is situated in the

Rif The Rif (, ), also called Rif Mountains, is a geographic region in northern Morocco. It is bordered on the north by the Mediterranean Sea and Spain and on the west by the Atlantic Ocean, and is the homeland of the Rifians and the Jebala people ...

mountains, not far from the

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. According to the 2004 census, it has a population of 3,555.

Notable people

* Abdelouafi Laftit (born 1967), Minister of Interior of Morocco since 5 April 2017. *

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(born 1971), Dutch politician who was born in Ighmiren, a department of Tafersit.

References

Populated places in Driouch Province {{OrientalMA-geo-stub