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An enlargeable topographic map of Morocco. Geography of Morocco. Morocco is: a country; Location Morocco is situated within the following regions: Western Hemisphere and Northern Hemisphere; Africa. Sahara Desert; North Africa. Maghreb; Time zone: Western European Time , Western European Summer Time ; Extreme points of Morocco
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Morocco's and Western Sahara's cities and main towns. Coordinates: . Coordinates. Area: total: 446,550 km² land: 446,302 km² (or 712,200 km²) water: 250 km² Area – comparative: Morocco is slightly larger than California; slightly larger than Newfoundland and Labrador; slightly more than half the size of New South Wales province of Australia; slightly less than twice the size of the ...
Morocco, [d] officially the Kingdom of Morocco, [e] is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa.It overlooks the Mediterranean Sea to the north and the Atlantic Ocean to the west, and has land borders with Algeria to the east, and the disputed territory of Western Sahara to the south.
The governments of Spain and Morocco appointed a joint committee [1] to investigate the feasibility of linking the two continents in 1979, which resulted in the much broader Euromed Transport project. [2] In January 2021, it was reported that the United Kingdom and Morocco would discuss building the crossing between Gibraltar and Tangiers. [3]
Morocco's strategic location near the mouth of the Mediterranean drew renewed European interest; in 1912, France and Spain divided the country into respective protectorates, reserving an international zone in Tangier. Following intermittent riots and revolts against colonial rule, in 1956, Morocco regained its independence and reunified.
Morocco is a neighbouring and associated country of the European Union.The nation has a territorial land border with EU member Spain in the exclaves of Ceuta and Melilla.It also has a maritime border with Spain through the Gibraltar Strait and Exclusive Economic Zone borders with EU member Portugal in the Atlantic.
Morocco initially managed to maintain its independence throughout the 'Scramble for Africa' in the late 19th century, whereby European colonial control was established in the rest of Africa. The border between it and the Ottoman domains to the east had been vague, and Morocco maintained a traditional, though often weakly enforced, claim to ...