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This four-year retrospective descriptive study was conducted from January 2011 to December 2014. All newborns with congenital malformations diagnosed at birth were included. Mothers and newborn characteristics were analyzed using SPSS 13.0. A total of 706 newborns were noted to have congenital malformation. The prevalence rate was 1.02%. The mean maternal age was 28.8\u00b17.2 years. The mean maternal body mass index was 28.1\u00b16.9 kg\/m2. 13.3% of the mothers had a history of abortion. The nervous system was the most affected system (19.4%) followed by the musculoskeletal system (14.2%), the chromosomal abnormalities (12.3%) and the genito-urinary system (10.8%). Males newborns (57.9%) had more congenital malformations than females (40.5%). The rates for live-births, fetal asphyxia and stillbirths were 75.2%, 7.2% and 17.3%, respectively. This retrospective study provides recent and detailed data about congenital malformations in a Moroccan region. 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