Laâyoune Province

Laâyoune (Arabic: إقليم العيون) is a delineated province in the north-west of Moroccan economic region of Laâyoune-Sakia El Hamra, which is situated within the northern part of the disputed territory of Western Sahara. Its population in 2004 was 210,023 (when it still included the population of the new Tarfaya Province, created in 2009). In today's limits of the province the population was 199,603.^[1] Its main town is Laayoune.^[2]

Water reservoir at the Seguiet-el-Hamra River

Laâyoune Province in Laâyoune-Sakia El Hamra

Subdivisions

The province is divided administratively into the following:^[3]

Name	Geographic code	Type	Households	Population (2004)	Foreign population	Moroccan population	Notes
El Marsa	321.01.01.	Municipality	2850	10229	11	10218
Laayoune	321.01.03.	Municipality	37545	183691	477	183214
Bou Craa	321.03.01.	Rural commune	505	2519	0	2519
Dcheira	321.03.03.	Rural commune	313	1745	1	1744
Foum El Oued	321.03.05.	Rural commune	325	1419	14	1405

Since 2009, the following communes have been separated into the Tarfaya Province: The municipality of Tarfaya, and the rural communes of El Hagounia, Akhfenir, Daoura, and Tah.^[4]