The Tangier International Zone was a 373 square kilometre protectorate controlled by several countries in the Moroccan city of Tangier and its environs between 1923 and 1956. Much like the Shanghai International Settlement, the government and administration of the zone was in the hands of a number of foreign powers. Princess Margriet of the Netherlands was born in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada,[104] as the family had been living there since June 1940 after the occupation of the Netherlands by Germany.