The Tangier-Tetouan-Al Hoceima region is characterized by a rich and diverse natural landscape, where 19 sites of biological and ecological importance have been created. Forests constitute the region’s most important natural resources, although their exploitation is still done individually.
The region is threatened by the possibility of natural hazards due to its geographical location, as it is one of the regions constantly threatened and exposed to earthquakes, climate change, floods and forest fires. Its severity is exacerbated by continuous soil erosion with negative effects, as well as frequent floods and human activities that negatively affect nature.

With regard to infrastructure, the Tangier-Tetouan-Al Hoceima region has only 5% of the national road network, and is known for its weak, unclassified road infrastructure. In terms of training and education, despite the large number of educational institutions in the region, the schooling rate is still low, and records the lowest rates in the Chefchaouen province for the three levels of education.
It is also noted that the Larache province suffers from high rates of school dropout at all three levels of education.

The region also has 197 vocational training institutions, with a capacity of 40,944 seats.
In this regard, statistics show that the province of Tangier-Assilah includes 46% of these establishments, and 55% of the total capacity, followed by the province of Tetouan, 21%, and the province of Larache, 12%. The regions with the least number of institutions are Al Hoceima Province, 5%, Ouazzane Province, 5%, and Chefchaouen Province, 3%. Regarding the Anjra inspection region, it does not have any institution.

In the field of health, analysis of the health map for the year 2017 shows that the Tangier-Tetouan-Al Hoceima region is still not sufficiently equipped with health care centers, with disparities between regions, as 22% of health facilities are concentrated in the Tangier prefecture. Asilah, and 3.6% in the Fahs-Anjra province.

The economy of the Tangier-Tetouan-Al Hoceima region is characterized by diversity, as various productive sectors participate in creating wealth at different levels. The agriculture, construction, tourism, and traditional industry sectors represent 30% of the regional economy, while the services sector represents 45%, followed by industry, which represents 25%.
This status is considered a result of the efforts made to equip the region with industrial zones and free zones. The industrial reception areas include more than 900 industrial facilities.

Thanks to the improvement in the business climate, the region has witnessed the development of its contracting fabric at an exceptional rate since the year 2000. It recorded the highest rate among the regions of the Kingdom in terms of establishing companies, as it exceeded 60% in 2018.
This facility has enabled it to accommodate 11.3% of the companies in the Kingdom, ranking third after the regions of Casablanca-Settat and Rabat-Salé-Kenitra. However, the majority of companies based in the region are small and medium enterprises.
The region also witnesses a weak presence of large companies, as there are only 5% of these 500 companies in the region, and they represent only 2% of the total turnover of these companies at the national level.

Despite the importance of the diversity of natural resources in the region and its role in developing large-scale agricultural activity, the agricultural sector represents only 11% of the regional economy, and produces only 10.5% of the regional added value. With arable areas amounting to 800,000 hectares, or 10% of the national area, the region contributes only 8.9% of the national grain production.

Despite the richness of the region’s regions and the abundance of its natural landscapes and heritage, the region still ranks behind the top three tourist destinations at the national level, as the number of overnight stays (1.5 million) represented only 8.2. % at the national level in 2016. The weakness of the tourism sector leads to the traditional industry sector losing a great opportunity for development.
This sector, which is of great social importance in the region, represents only a weak percentage of the regional economic fabric. This sector is the second largest labor sector after the trade and services sector. However, the traditional industry represents only 15% of the jobs in the rural world.

The construction and public works sector is also one of the components of the regional economy, as its contribution rate reached 6% in 2016. This sector employs only 11.4% of the active regional population, as it records a high unemployment rate of about 20%.
The weakness of this sector can be explained by several factors, the most important of which is the difficulty of accessing real estate at reasonable prices, in addition to the stagnation of construction documents, which hinders the dynamism of this sector.

With regard to the cultural aspect, the Tangier-Tetouan-Al Hoceima region abounds with a dense presence of heritage, historical sites and authentic intangible heritage, as this very rich and diverse element includes handicrafts inherited from ancestors and ancient artistic know-how, as well as elements of oral culture in the regions. Urban and rural.
The main handicrafts and traditional products consist of leather products (Tetouan, Tangier, Chefchaouen and Al Hoceima), and textiles and fabrics (Tetouan, Zane, Chefchaouen, Ksar el-Kebir, etc.). Oral cultures are also formed from Al-Aita and Al-Taqtuqa Al-Jabal, Andalusian music (Tetouan, Chefchaouen and Tangier), and Rekada (Al-Hoceima).