Morocco

Morocco, about one-tenth larger than California, lies across the Strait of Gibraltar on the Mediterranean and looks out on the Atlantic from the northwest shoulder of Africa. Algeria is to the east and Mauritania to the south. On the Atlantic coast there is a fertile plain. The Mediterranean coast is mountainous. The Atlas Mountains, running northeastward from the south to the Algerian frontier, average 11,000 ft (3,353 m) in elevation.


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  • Tétouan (Arabic: تطوان, romanized: tiṭwān, Berber languages: ⵜⵉⵟⵟⴰⵡⴰⵏ, romanized: tiṭṭawan; Spanish: Tetuán), is a city located in northern Morocco It lies along the Martil Valley and is one of the two major ports of Morocco on the Mediterranean Sea, a few miles south of the Strait of Gibraltar, and about 60 kilometres (37 mi) ES

  • Taza (Berber languages: ⵜⴰⵣⴰ, Arabic: تازة) is a city in northern Morocco occupying the corridor between the Rif mountains and Middle Atlas mountains, about 120 km east of Fez and 210 km west of Oujda It recorded a population of 148,406 in the 2019 Moroccan census and is the capital of Taza Province

  • This article refers to the city of Taounate; for the province see Taounate Province Taounate (Berber: Tawnat, ⵜⴰⵡⵏⴰⵜ; Arabic: تاونات) is a town in the Rif Mountains region of northern Morocco, and is the capital of Tawnat Province It is located at around 34°32′9″N 4°38′24″W

  • Rabat (, also UK: , US: ; Arabic: الرباط, romanized: ar-ribāṭ; Berber languages: ⴰⵕⴱⴰⵟ, romanized: aṛṛbaṭ) is the capital city of Morocco and the country's seventh largest city with an urban population of approximately 580,000 (2014) and a metropolitan population of over 12 million It is also the capital city of the Rabat-Salé-Kénitra administrative region

  • Oujda (Arabic: وجدة; Berber languages: ⵡⵓⵊⴷⴰ, romanized: Wujda) is a major Moroccan city in its northeast near the border with Algeria Oujda is the capital city of the Oriental region of northeastern Morocco and has a population of about 558,000 people It is located about 15 kilometres (9 miles) west of the Moroccan-Algerian border in the south of Beni-Znassen ( Aït Iznassen ) mountains and about 55 km (34 miles) south of the Mediterranean Sea coast

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