Tichla is a small town in the
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 ...
under the ''de facto'' control of
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 ...
, which considers it as part of
rural commune Aousserd Province
Aousserd () is a province in the Moroccan economic region of Dakhla-Oued Ed-Dahab, and the disputed territory of Western Sahara
Western Sahara is a territorial dispute, disputed territory in Maghreb, North-western Africa. It has a surface a ...
in the
Dakhla-Oued Ed-Dahab
Dakhla-Oued Ed-Dahab () is one of the twelve regions of Morocco. Before September 2015 it was known as Oued Ed-Dahab-Lagouira (). It is situated in the disputed territory of Western Sahara, considered by Morocco to be the southern part of the ...
region. At the time of the
2004 census, the commune had a total population of 6,036 people living in 102 households.
A few kilometers away is the
Tichla Fortress.
References
Populated places in Aousserd Province
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