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Laâyoune Province

Laâyoune Province (Arabic: إقليم العيون; Spanish: Provincia de El Aaiún) is a delineated province in the north-west of the Laâyoune-Sakia El Hamra region, which is situated within the northern part of the Moroccan-occupied 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. Its main town is Laayoune.

The province is divided administratively into the following:

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.

27°09′24″N 13°12′13″W / 27.156539°N 13.203592°W / 27.156539; -13.203592

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