Oujda Arabic pronunciation: [wa(d)ʒda], is a major Moroccan city in its northeast near the border with Algeria. Oujda is the capital city of the Oriental region of northeastern Morocco and has a population of about 558,000 people. It is located about 15 kilometres west of the Moroccan-Algerian border in the south of the Beni Znassen Mountains and about 55 km south of the Mediterranean Sea coast.

The Algeria–Morocco border is 1,427 km (887 mi) in length and runs from Mediterranean Sea in the north, to the tripoint with Western Sahara in the south. The border has been officially closed to all travel since 1994, although clandestine crossings are common.