Bni Makada is one of the four arrondissements or districts of the city of Ṭanja, Morocco. Administratively it is part of the prefecture of Ṭanja-Aẓila in the region of Ṭanja-Tiṭwan-Elḥusima. The 2014 Moroccan census recorded a population of 386,191 people living in 91,737 households.[1]
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Bni Makada is named after a tribe of the Houara, who settled in the area in the late 17th century during the reign of Sultan Moulay Ismail ibn Sharif.
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- ^ "POPULATION LÉGALE DES RÉGIONS, PROVINCES, PRÉFECTURES, MUNICIPALITÉS, ARRONDISSEMENTS ET COMMUNES DU ROYAUME D'APRÈS LES RÉSULTATS DU RGPH 2014" (in Arabic and French). High Commission for Planning, Morocco. 8 April 2015. Retrieved 13 December 2018.