Country guide
Morocco
Capital, flag, borders and quick geography facts for Morocco.
Key facts
- Capital
- Rabat
- Region
- Africa
- Area
- 446,550 km²
- Population
- 36,828,330
Neighboring countries
Morocco has 3 land neighbors in the country data.
- Algeria
- Western Sahara
- Spain
Learn Morocco
Rabat is Morocco's capital. The University of al-Qarawiyyin in Fez, founded in 859, is recognized by Guinness World Records as the oldest continually operating educational institution in the world.
Morocco covers 446,550 square kilometers and borders Algeria, Western Sahara, and Spain, with Algeria its largest neighbor. Mount Toubkal in the High Atlas is the highest peak in North Africa, rising more than four thousand meters above sea level.
The old medina of Fez, known as Fes el-Bali, holds the Guinness World Record for the largest car-free urban area by population.
Trivia
- The University of al-Qarawiyyin in Fez, founded in the year eight hundred fifty-nine, is recognized by Guinness World Records as the oldest continually operating educational institution in the world.
- In seventeen seventy-seven, Sultan Mohammed the Third of Morocco opened Moroccan ports to American ships, making Morocco one of the first countries to recognize United States independence.
- Mount Toubkal in Morocco's High Atlas is the highest peak in North Africa, rising more than four thousand meters above sea level.
- The Barbary macaque, found in Morocco's Atlas Mountains, is the only monkey species that survives in the wild north of the Sahara Desert.
- The old medina of Fez, known as Fes el-Bali, holds the Guinness World Record for the largest car-free urban area by population.
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