Middle East–N. Africa
Morocco
Capital: Rabat
- 38MPopulation
- 38MMuslim
- 99%Muslim share
- $3,900GDP per person
- 13%Unemployment
- 5%In poverty
- 77%Literacy
- 75Life expectancy
- System
- constitutional monarchy
- In power
- King Mohammed VI
- Currency
- dirham
- In the UN since
- 1,956
Life today
Football's 2022 World Cup heroes, moussem festivals, film shoots in Ouarzazate; youth joblessness stings.
Word on the street
WhatsApp voice notes everywhere; aita and chaabi soundtrack the evenings.
Names the world knows
- Ibn Battuta greatest traveller
- Achraf Hakimi footballer
- Tahar Ben Jelloun Prix Goncourt writer
- Hicham El Guerrouj athletics legend
Did you know?
Ibn Battuta left Tangier in 1325 and travelled ~120,000 km — more than Marco Polo.