Morocco

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PROFILE
  • Area: 446,550 sq. km (172,414 sq. mi.)
  • Population: 33,655,786 (2016 est.)
  • Population growth rate: 0.99% (2016 est.)
  • Life expectancy: 76.9 years (2016)
  • Languages: Arabic (official), Berber languages (Tamazight (official), Tachelhit, Tarifit), French (often the language of business, government, and diplomacy)
  • Religions: Muslim 99% (official; virtually all Sunni, <0.1% Shia), other 1% (includes Christian, Jewish, and Baha'i)
  • Formal name: Kingdom of Morocco
  • Alternate names: Al Maghrib, Al Maghrib al Aqşá, Al Mamlakah al Maghribīyah, Al-Mamlaka al-Maghrabiya, El Maghreb el Aqsa, Kingdom of Morocco, Maroc, Marocco, Marokko, Marrakesh, Marruecos, Moghreb-el-Aksa, Reino de Marruecos, Royaume du Maroc
  • Government type: parliamentary constitutional monarchy
  • Leaders: chief of state: King MOHAMMED VI; head of government: Prime Minister Abdelillah BENKIRANE
  • Capital: Rabat
  • Administrative divisions: 11 regions
  • GDP per capita (PPP): $8,200 (2015 est.)
  • Exports: clothing and textiles, automobiles, electric components, inorganic chemicals, transistors, crude minerals, fertilizers (including phosphates), petroleum products, citrus fruits, vegetables, fish
  • Imports: crude petroleum, textile fabric, telecommunications equipment, wheat, gas and electricity, transistors, plastics
  • Currency: Moroccan dirham (MAD)
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