Berrechid

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| name = Berrechid

| other_name = {{lang|ar|برشيد}}

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| settlement_type = Municipality and town

| image_skyline = Berrechid Province administration building in Berrechid - front 2024.jpg

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| image_caption = Berrechid Province administration building in Berrechid

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| pushpin_map = Morocco#Africa

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| 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

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| population_as_of = 2014

| population_footnotes = {{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}}

| population_total = 136634

| population_rank = 23rd in Morocco

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| timezone = CET

| utc_offset = +1

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| elevation_m = 213

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Berrechid ({{langx|ar|برشيد}}) is a town and municipality in Berrechid Province of the Casablanca-Settat region of Morocco. It recorded a population of 136,634 inhabitants in the 2014 Moroccan census. At the time of the 2004 census, the commune had a total population of 89,830 people living in 18,808 households.{{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 }}

"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.{{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}}{{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}}