Morocco Guide, Meaning , Facts, Information and Description

The Kingdom of Morocco is a country of northwest Africa. It has a long coastline on the Atlantic Ocean which reaches past the Strait of Gibraltar into the Mediterranean Sea.

Morocco has annexed Western Sahara, but this is not universally recognised.

Name

The name in most other languages originates from the name of the former capital Marrakech.

History

Morocco was a French protectorate from 1912, remaining a Kingdom, and achieved independence in 1956, and it took control over Tangier, formerly an international city. The northern area of Morocco was under a Spanish protectorate concurrently. Morocco annexed Western Sahara in the 1970s (which was a colony under the Spaniards since the 19th century, and previous to that, an area of Moroccan influence), but this has not been recognised by many nations.

Morocco was the first nation to recognize the fledging American republic in 1777, and has the oldest non-broken friendship treaty with this country since 1783: the Moroccan-American Treaty of Friendship. John Adams and Thomas Jefferson were the American signatories. The United States legation (embassy) in Tangier, now a museum, is one of the oldest official American buildings outside the US.

Politics

The King of Morocco is an active leader, although decreasingly so. Political parties are legal, and a plethora of them exist.

See also: List of political parties in Morocco

Provinces

Morocco is divided into 37 provinces and 2 wilayas*:

Three additional provinces, Ad Dakhla (Oued Eddahab), Boujdour, and Es Smara, as well as parts of Tan-Tan and Laayoune, fall within Moroccan-claimed Western Sahara.

note: as part of a 1997 decentralization/regionalization law passed by the legislature, 16 new regions (provided below) were created although full details and scope of the reorganization are limited:

Geography

Algeria borders Morocco to the east and southeast (the Algerian border is closed [1]). There are also four Spanish enclaves on the Mediterranean coast: Ceuta, Melilla Peñon Velez de la Gomera and Peñon de Alhucemas, as well as several islands including Perejil (status disputed) and Chafarinas. Off the Atlantic coast the Canary Islands belong to Spain whereas Madeira, to the North, is Portuguese.

The capital city is Rabat. Its largest city is Casablanca.

Other cities include Agadir, Dakhla, Essaouira, Fes, Laayoune, Marrakech, Meknes, Oujda, Safi, Smara, Tangier, Tiznit, Salè and Tan-Tan.

• List of cities in Morocco

Morocco has signed a Free Trade Agreement with the European Union and the US

Demographics

Culture

• Cuisine of Morocco
• List of writers from Morocco
• Music of Morocco

• Communications in Morocco
• Transportation in Morocco
• Military of Morocco
• Foreign relations of Morocco
• Moroccan Wall
• Portal of Moroccans in the U.S.
• Moroccan newspapers

• List of Spanish territories in Morocco
• Morocco (1930 movie)

• Morocco365 a complete guide to Morocco. Lots of pictures
• Pictures Of Morocco
• Lexicorient a very complete guide to Morocco
• a map of Moroccan cities
• a travel guide to Morocco
• Traditional Moroccan music from Morocco's Ministry of Communication
• The Moroccan entry in the Yahoo Travel Destination Guide
• The Moroccan entry in the Yahoo Countries Guide
• The Moroccan entry in the Open Directory
• Moroccusafta, USTR two sites dealing about the Morocco/US Free Trade Agrement
• The American Legation in Tangier
• OujdaCity an interesting web portal about Oriental Morocco
• MoroccoLinks.com - Moroccan Directory, with categorized links to Moroccan sites, updates, resources and more.

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