Agdal
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Agdal is an urban community of Rabat
Rabat
Rabat , is the capital and third largest city of the Kingdom of Morocco with a population of approximately 650,000...

, the capital of Morocco
Morocco
Morocco , officially the Kingdom of Morocco , is a country located in North Africa. It has a population of more than 32 million and an area of 710,850 km², and also primarily administers the disputed region of the Western Sahara...

. It is a former suburb whose chief inhabitants, prior to the postwar expansion of the city, were the students of the nearby university
Mohammed V University at Agdal
Mohammed V University is a Moroccan university which was founded in 1957. It was split in 1993 to become two independent universities, Mohammed V University at Agdal and Mohammed V University at Souissi.-Academics:...

. (This was recognized by Malika Oufkir
Malika Oufkir
Malika Oufkir is a Moroccan writer and former "disappeared". She is the daughter of General Mohamed Oufkir and a cousin of fellow Moroccan writer and actress Leila Shenna....

, in her book Stolen Lives.) Presently, it is among the richest neighborhoods in Morocco. It is inhabited by many expatriates, chiefly French, as well as a population of wealthy Moroccans. It houses one of the two train stations of Rabat, named Rabat-Agdal.
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