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Capital | Rabat |
Government | Constitutional monarchy |
Currency | Moroccan dirham (MAD) |
Area | total: 446,550 km2 land: 446,300 km2 water: 250 km2 |
Population | 32,725,847 (July 2006 est.) |
Language | Arabic (official), Berber dialects, Spanish and French are often the languages of business and government |
Religion | Muslim 98.5%, Christian 1.3%, Jewish 0.2% |
Electricity | 127-220V/50Hz (European plug) |
Calling Code | +212 |
Internet TLD | .ma |
Time Zone | UTC/UTC+1 |
Morocco (المغرب Al-Maghrib) is a North African country that has a coastline on both the North Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea. It has borders with Western Sahara to the south, Algeria to the east and the Spanish North African territories of Ceuta and Melilla on the Mediterranean coast in the north. It is just across the Strait of Gibraltar from Gibraltar.