{{Infobox settlement | name = Berrechid | other_name = {{lang|ar|برشيد}} | native_name = ⵀⴻⵔⵛⵉⴷ | settlement_type = Municipality and city | image_skyline = Berrechid Province administration building in Berrechid - front 2024.jpg | imagesize = | image_caption = Berrechid Province administration building in Berrechid | image_seal = | image_flag = | image_map = | pushpin_map = Morocco#Africa | pushpin_relief = 1 | map_caption = Location in Morocco | coordinates = {{coord|33|16|N|7|35|W|display=title|region:MA_type:city_source:GNS-enwiki}} | subdivision_type = Country | subdivision_name = {{flag|Morocco}} | subdivision_type1 = Region | subdivision_name1 = Casablanca-Settat | subdivision_type2 = Province | subdivision_name2 = Berrechid | leader_title = | leader_name = | established_title = | established_date = | area_total_km2 = | population_as_of = 2014 | population_footnotes = <ref name=census2014>{{cite web |url=http://rgph2014.hcp.ma/file/166326/ |title=POPULATION LÉGALE DES RÉGIONS, PROVINCES, PRÉFECTURES, MUNICIPALITÉS, ARRONDISSEMENTS ET COMMUNES DU ROYAUME D'APRÈS LES RÉSULTATS DU RGPH 2014 |language=ar, fr |publisher=High Commission for Planning, Morocco |date=8 April 2015 |accessdate=29 September 2017}}</ref> | population_total = 136634 | population_rank = 23rd in Morocco | population_density_km2 = | timezone = CET | utc_offset = +1 | elevation_footnotes = | elevation_m = 213 | elevation_ft = | website = | footnotes = }} '''Berrechid''' ({{langx|ar|برشيد}}) is a city and municipality in Berrechid Province of the Casablanca-Settat region of Morocco. The city is located about {{convert|39|km|mi}} from Ben Ahmed, {{convert|34|km|mi}} from Settat, {{convert|32|km|mi}} south of Casablanca, {{convert|196|km|mi}} from Marrakesh, and {{convert|90|km|mi}} from El Jadida.
It recorded a population of 136,634 inhabitants in the 2014 Moroccan census.<ref name=census2014/> At the time of the 2004 census, the commune had a total population of 89,830 people living in 18,808 households.<ref name="Pop">{{cite web |url=http://www.lavieeco.com/documents_officiels/Recensement%20population.pdf |title=Recensement général de la population et de l'habitat de 2004 |publisher=Haut-commissariat au Plan, Lavieeco.com |accessdate=21 June 2012 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120724191316/http://www.lavieeco.com/documents_officiels/Recensement%20population.pdf |archivedate=24 July 2012 }}</ref>
"Berrechid" is also a metonym for Berrechid Hospital, which first opened as a European-style asylum in 1919 under French colonial rule and was the first place for psychiatric treatment in Morocco.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Stein |first=D. |date=2000-11-28 |title=Views of mental illness in Morocco: Western medicine meets the traditional symbolic |journal=Canadian Medical Association Journal |volume=163 |issue=11 |pages=1468–1470 |issn=0820-3946 |pmc=80417 |pmid=11192655}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Corfield |first=Justin |title=Cultural Sociology of Mental Illness: An A-to-Z Guide |publisher=SAGE Publishing |isbn=9781483388991 |editor-last=Scull |editor-first=Andrew |publication-date=2013 |pages=555 |chapter=Morocco}}</ref>
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