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The names of Casa's chief squares - Place Mohammed V and Place des Nations Unies - are a source of enduring confusion. In 1991, Hassan II declared that the old Place des Nations Unies (around which are grouped the city's main public buildings) be known as Place Mohammed V, while the old Place Mohammed V (the square beside the Medina) became renamed Place des Nations Unies.

Note also that, as elsewhere in Morocco, many of the old French street names have been revised to bear Moroccan names; older people and many petit taxi drivers still use the old names - as do some street maps still on sale. Significant conversions include:

Rue Branly - Rue Sharif Amziane

Rue Claude - Rue Mohammed El Qorri

Rue Colbert - Rue Chaouia

Rue Foucauld - Rue Araibi Jilali

Rue de l'Horloge - Rue Allal Ben Abdallah

Further map confusion is likely to be caused by the proposed remodelling of avenues to create a ceremonial approach from the (new) Place des Nations Unies to the Mosquée Hassan II. The planned route - the so-called Mosquée-Théâtre axis - will mean a fair amount of demolition southwest of the Old Medina, though, at time of writing, work was yet to begin.