Morocco

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This page was generated on 20 September 2026 at 12:27 UTC. The bundled facts on it were retrieved between 13 July 2026 and 8 August 2026. Aletheia's source record for emergency numbers records no retrieval date, so it is not covered by that range.

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Country outlines on Aletheia come from Natural Earth's 1:10-million public-domain boundary set, made by volunteer cartographers and supported by NACIS. Where a border is disputed, the line drawn is one cartographic convention among the competing claims — not a settled fact, and not Aletheia taking a side. Disputes we can source are listed rather than hidden inside the outline.

Locator map of Morocco. Morocco is filled; surrounding countries are drawn in a dimmer tone and nothing is hidden behind them. 1 contested area is marked with hatching: W. Sahara. View spans 18.5°W to 0.4°E and 20.1°N to 37.2°N. Boundaries: Natural Earth (public domain), 1:10m.W. Sahara — status contested; see the list below.

Morocco is filled. The 7 other countries reaching this view are drawn in a dimmer tone — dimmed, not hidden. Unpainted ground is where no boundary in this dataset falls: open water, or land none of them claims.

The hatched area is contested, and Aletheia takes no position on it. The hatching marks where the dispute lies — including where it falls inside the outline — and it is the same set the list below names.

Boundaries: Natural Earth (public domain), 1:10m. Disputed areas: Natural Earth (public domain). Equirectangular projection, standard parallel 28.7°N — distances and areas away from that parallel are stretched. View: 18.5°W–0.4°E, 20.1°N–37.2°N.

Disputed areas involving Morocco

One area whose status is contested. Aletheia takes no position on it. It is described in the source’s own words.

Source: Natural Earth’s disputed-areas layer (public domain). The list is not exhaustive, and inclusion or omission is not a judgment about any claim’s merit. What has happened in these places is not described here — that needs a source Aletheia has not yet been able to read.

  1. News sources

    5 sources from Moroccoin Aletheia’s registry. Coverage here is covered.

    • Aujourd'hui le Maroc
    • Le Matin du Maroc
    • Les Éco
    • Actu-Maroc
    • Le Reporter

    sources not yet assessed

  2. Official alerts

    no source connectedNo official alerting source is connected for this country yet. Its own authorities may well publish warnings — Aletheia simply does not carry them.

  3. National legislature

    Parliament of Morocco ↗

    Wikidata P856 · link checked and reachable

  4. Local time

    One time zone.

    The current time needs JavaScript, so it is not shown here rather than shown wrong.

  5. Conditions at the capital

    Right now in Rabat

    31°C / 88°FClearwind 9 km/h / 5 mph

    Checked 12 minutes ago

    Conditions at the capital, not across the country.

    Weather from Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0)

    Rabat, 2026-09-20Sunrise 7:13 AM · sunset 7:27 PM12h 14m of daylightWaxing gibbous, 65% lit

  6. At a glance

    ISO code
    MARuncited
    Driving side
    rightcited
    Mains voltage
    127 V / 220 Vcited
    Capital
    Rabatuncited
    Official languages
    Arabic, Standard Moroccan Tamazightcited
    Plug types
    Type C (Europlug), Type Ecited · letters are the IEC classification
    Official website
    maroc.ma ↗From the source's "official website" statement, kept here because the site is a government portal. We have not tested whether it loads.uncited

  7. Population and economy

    Population

    Population of Morocco: the UN's 2025 estimate is 38,430,770 people. The page shows that figure carried forward at about 40 more an hour. It is a projection, not a count, and the figure shown changes as time passes.

    Not a count. This is the UN's 2025 estimate carried forward at the rate implied by the two most recent published years — arithmetic, not a measurement. Nobody counts a country continuously, and the true figure right now is unknown.

    Where this number comes from
    Base figure
    38,430,770 people
    For the year
    2025 — a mid-year estimate, so it describes 1 July 2025
    Compared with
    38,081,173 people in 2024
    Rate applied
    about 40 more an hour (349,829 a year)
    How that rate was found
    The difference between the 2024 and 2025 estimates, divided by the time between them. It is our arithmetic on two published figures — the source does not publish this rate.
    Carried forward
    0 days beyond the base figure's date
    Source
    UN World Population Prospects and national statistical offices, compiled by the World Bank · source updated 2026-07-13
    The source's own definition
    The values shown are midyear estimates.

    THIS NUMBER IS NOT A MEASUREMENT, AND ITS MOVEMENT IS NOT NEWS. No country counts its population continuously. A census is periodic, and every figure between censuses — including the estimate this starts from — is a projection. What you are watching is that projection's trend applied to the clock on your phone. It moves because time passes, not because anyone was born or died. Treat the digits beyond the first few as arithmetic rather than knowledge: the trend is real, the precision is not.

    Population
    38,430,7702025
    GDP
    182,374,250,6122025
    GDP per capita
    4,6722025
    Life expectancy at birth
    75.5 years2024
    Exports
    42.0%2025
    Imports
    51.1%2025

    Compiled by the World Bank from: World Population Prospects, United Nations (UN), uri: https://population.un.org/wpp/, publisher: UN Population Division · source updated 2026-07-13 · each figure is dated because the most recent value was chosen by us, not by the source

  8. In this country's own words

    الله، الوطن، الملك
    the state's official mottovia Wikidata (CC0)
    ⴰⴽⵓⵛ, ⴰⵎⵓⵔ, ⴰⴳⵍⵍⵉⴷ
    the state's official mottovia Wikidata (CC0)

    Also recorded in Welsh.

    Founded
    0789
    Official religion
    Islam
    National anthem
    Cherifian Anthem

    Everything in this section is quoted, with its source. Aletheia does not write about a country's history, culture or religion in its own words — where there is nothing to quote, there is no section.

  9. World Heritage Sites

    9 World Heritage Sitesshow all
    1. Medina of Fez · inscribed 1981
    2. Medina of Marrakesh · inscribed 1985
    3. Aït Benhaddou · inscribed 1987
    4. Medina of Meknes · inscribed 1996
    5. Volubilis · inscribed 1997
    6. Medina of Tétouan · inscribed 1997
    7. Medina of Essaouira · inscribed 2001
    8. Mazagan · inscribed 2004
    9. Rabat · inscribed 2012

      The name shown for this site was not chosen. Two or more records carry an inscription-level number for it and give different names, so we show one of them without claiming it is the right one. It is unchosen, not known to be wrong.

    Register from Wikidata (CC0) · in inscription order · links go to UNESCO

  10. Emergency numbers

    • 15listed as: fire department
    • 15listed as: emergency medical services
    • 19listed as: police
    • 112listed as: police
    • 177listed as: Royal Gendarmerie

    Shown in numerical order, which is not an order of priority.

    Listed by the source, mostly from ITU-T E.129. We have not dialled these numbers, and where a service is named it is the source's description rather than ours.

  11. Explore this country

  12. Regions

    First-level regions as GeoNames lists them, shown alphabetically · each page computes daylight at the region’s own coordinates

  13. Currency

    MAD

News coverage here is counted from Aletheia’s bundled source registry plus the sources the Host had admitted as of 2026-09-14. A source admitted since that date has not reached this page yet, so this is a floor rather than a total.

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