Rabat

Morocco

Rabat is the capital city of Morocco, located on the northwestern coasts of the Atlantic Ocean. Rabat is the country's seventh-largest city with a population of 515,619 and the second largest metropolitan area after Casablanca, with a population of approximately 2.1 million. It is also the capital city of the Rabat-Salé-Kénitra administrative region. Rabat is located on the Atlantic Ocean at the mouth of the river Bou Regreg, opposite Salé, the city's main commuter town.

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Country: Morocco
Population: 1,705,000
Latitude: 34.03° N
Longitude: 6.84° O

Which way is Rabat from…

From Paris, Rabat lies at 208° to the south-west, 1,815 km as the crow flies.

Paris	208° south-west	1,815 km
London	198° south	2,017 km
New York	74° east	5,838 km
Madrid	202° south	763 km
Rome	249° west	1,902 km
Montreal	78° east	5,677 km
Saint-Denis, Réunion	312° north-west	8,979 km

Bearings as the crow flies (great circle), measured from north. From somewhere else, the bearing changes: that’s the whole game.

Oùcécap’s take

Dig straight through the Earth beneath Rabat and you would come out 821 km from Wellington. Closer to home, from London, Morocco’s capital lies south, at 198°, 2,017 km away. From New York, don’t trust a flat map: it says 97°, the compass says 74°, still east but well to the north. To place it, remember that Dublin is due north, almost on the same meridian.