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Morocco
Kingdom of Morocco ยท ุงูู
ุบุฑุจ
Africa
ยท Northern Africa
0Population
446.55Kkmยฒ of land
$3.28KGDP / person
RabatCapital
- ISO codes
- MA ยท MAR
- Density
- 82 /kmยฒ
- Languages
- Arabic, Berber
- Currency
- Moroccan dirham (MAD)
- Dial code
- +212
- Internet domain
- .ma
- Time zones
- 1
- Coastline
- Has a coast
- Map centre
- 31.6510ยฐ N, 7.1870ยฐ W
- Demonym
- Moroccan
- UN region
- Northern Africa
- Economy
- Developing region
- Income group
- Lower middle income
- Total GDP
- $119.7B
- Sovereignty
- Independent ยท UN member
- Borders
- 3
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By the numbers
How Morocco stacks up against all 242 mapped countries.
Population
40th
of 242 ยท 0.48% of world population
Land area
59th
of 242 ยท 0.30% of world land
GDP per person
173rd
richest of 242 by output per person
Population density
117th
most crowded of 242
Ten facts about Morocco
The first is hand-written; the rest are worked out from this country's own figures.
Population is about 36,471,769 people, the 40th largest of the 242 countries mapped here - roughly 0.48 per cent of everyone alive.
Covers 446,550 kmยฒ, making it the 59th largest country here - about 10.8 times the size of Switzerland.
Population density is about 82 people per kmยฒ.
The capital is Rabat, at 34.03ยฐ N, 6.84ยฐ W, with a metropolitan population of about 1,705,000.
Shares land borders with 2 countries: Algeria and Spain.
Has its own coastline and direct access to the open sea.
Keeps a single time zone, Africa/Casablanca.
The currency is the Moroccan dirham (MAD, symbol ุฏ.ู .).
Has 2 official languages: Arabic and Berber.
Local time
Live, from PHP's IANA database.
Africa/Casablanca
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UTC+00:00
Cities
The largest places we hold coordinates for. Click a row to fly the map there.
1
Casablanca
Grand Casablanca
33.6019ยฐ N, 7.6183ยฐ W
3.18M
2
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Rabat
Rabat - Salรฉ - Zemmour - Zaer
34.0253ยฐ N, 6.8364ยฐ W
1.71M
3
Fez
Fรจs - Boulemane
34.0565ยฐ N, 5.0023ยฐ W
1M
4
Marrakesh
Marrakech - Tensift - Al Haouz
31.6319ยฐ N, 8.0019ยฐ W
872K
5
Oujda
Oriental
34.6900ยฐ N, 1.9100ยฐ W
409.39K
6
Safi
Doukkala - Abda
32.3200ยฐ N, 9.2400ยฐ W
353.48K
7
Laayoune
Laรขyoune - Boujdour - Sakia El Hamra
27.1500ยฐ N, 13.2000ยฐ W
188.08K
๐งญ Worth the trip
Sahara โ Erg Chebbi
Desert
Wind-piled dunes up to 150 m tall, with some of the darkest night skies anywhere in North Africa.
Marrakesh Medina
City
Jemaa el-Fnaa turns over completely at dusk, from snake charmers and storytellers to a hundred food stalls.
Land neighbours
2 countries share a border with Morocco.