Marrakech (Arabic: مراكش, Berber: ⵎⵕⵕⴰⴽⵛ), nicknamed the Red City (Arabic: المدينة الحمراء), is a city located in southern Morocco, in the interior, at the foot of the Atlas Mountains .
The nickname of the red city refers to the red color of many of its buildings and homes.
The city was founded in 1071 by Youssef Ibn Tachfine did Sanhaji, head of the Berber empire Almoravids. In the past, Morocco was known in the East under the name of Marrakech (name still current in Iran); Morocco the name itself comes from the deformation of the Portuguese pronunciation of Marrakech Marrocos.
Marrakech has 928,850 inhabitants, according to the census of 2014, spread over an area of 230 km2. The population density reaches 350 inhabitants per hectare in the Medina. It is Morocco's fourth largest city after Casablanca, Fez and Tangiers.
The city is divided into two distinct parts: the historical city (ten kilometers speaker) and the new city whose principal districts are called Gueliz and Hivernage, Askar Douar Sidi Youssef Ben Ali, Mouhamid, Daoudiat. Guéliz is now the commercial center. It was founded by the French during the Protectorate. The Hivernage district contains many hotel complexes. In recent years, the town expanded in the periphery, especially to the west with the appearance of new residential neighborhoods like the Targa region and the extension of the Mohammed VI Avenue or north Tamansour
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