The center of the city Bouznika is located in the Atlantic plain at the junction of Highway No. 1 between the economic capital and the administrative capital and the secondary road No. 117 linking the city to the province of Benslimane. Administratively, the center Bouznika depended Kenitra province until 1971 and Prefecture de Rabat-Sale until 1977, when he was attached to the province of Benslimane newly created. Bouznika occupies second place in the urban province, behind the town of Benslimane is the capital of the province.

The center Bouznika, capital of the county, is home to a circle which covers the rural towns of Beni Yakhlef, of Elmansouria, Sidi Moussa Ben Ali, Sidi Moussa Elmahjoub of Cherrat, Bir Ennasr and Sidi Bettache. It is also the seat of a Pashalic which oversees the town of Bouznika erected into a municipality in the 1992 municipal division, which division has created the birth of the town Cherrat (sidi Khdim) which was part of the common Bouznika.
Bouznika The city owes its existence to the Kasbah north-west of the town founded by Moulay Abderrahmane in 1858 on the basis of an exchange economy and trade was therefore an important transit point.

In 1912, construction of main road No. 1 and the railroad from Fez to Casablanca port, led to the growth of the city marked its main urban structure. Thus, traders from Tafilalt, settled along the main road No. 1 and creates Hay Tafilalt as residential. At the same time were emerging N'Bichette Hay. In 1952, Bouznika, has acquired its first development plan it included all the amenities of town, hence the birth of a linear city along the R.P1 and RS117.

The evolution and abundance of equipment have resulted in massive influx of rural people and therefore the onset of slum clusters. Following independence, the city suffers a unprecedented demographic pressure due to both the rural exodus and population growth. The city was faced with this situation, hence the birth of several housing areas (Alamal, Block communal Hay wadi Eddahab, Riad etc. ... ... ... ..)