Everything you need to know about Morocco
Cross Morocco from the Rif and imperial cities to the Atlas, Atlantic ports and southern oases. Explore its maps, history, food and everyday life, including the Western Sahara area. Practise Arabic and French; the Arabic lessons introduce Modern Standard Arabic, while everyday Moroccan Darija and Amazigh languages have their own forms.
Read it, then make it stick
Geography of Morocco
The Rif rises near the Mediterranean, while the Atlas ranges run through the interior. Atlantic plains hold major farming and urban areas. Morocco borders the disputed territory of Western Sahara to the south, whose final status remains unresolved.
Know the shape of the country
Explore the twelve regions in Moroccoโs administrative scheme, then place twenty cities in Morocco and Western Sahara and follow four rivers to three surrounding waters. Western Saharaโs status is disputed. Regional boundaries: geoBoundaries, OpenStreetMap/Wambacher, ODbL 1.0, 2017 boundaries. Rivers: Natural Earth, public domain. Marine areas are simplified learning zones.
Places worth visiting
Essential ยท Square & souks
Jemaa el-Fnaa
Storytellers and food stalls fill Marrakeshโs great square at dusk. The souks begin just beyond it.
Pair Marrakesh and Fez with the blue town of Chefchaouen and the Atlantic coast, then head over the Atlas to the kasbahs and dunes of the south. Essential is our shortlist for a first trip, and worth a detour goes further. Select a pin to read about a place, then play the map and find them all.
Take Arabic with you
Greetings and politeness
Hello, please, thank you, sorry: the ten openers everything else builds on.
Keep going one country deeper
When you have had your fill of Morocco, the countries marked guide have a page like this one, and every other has maps of its own.
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