"La provincia de El Aaiún (en arabe, ) es una de las provincias del sur de Marruecos. El estatus legal de este territorio y la cuestión de la soberanía están por resolver. El Frente Polisario, que constituyó en 1976 la República Árabe Saharaui Democrática, lo disputa."
"Laâyoune is a province in the north-west of Moroccan economic region of Laâyoune-Sakia El Hamra, which includes the northern part of the disputed 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 El Aaiún (Laâyoune)."