Map of Morocco

Morocco is located in Africa. Its territory lies in the northern and western hemispheres, centred near 32.0° N, 5.0° W. It shares land borders with 2 countries — Algeria and Spain — and also has its own coastline. Within Africa, a continent of 54 countries bordered by the Atlantic Ocean and the Indian Ocean, Morocco is mapped here in full with its borders, capital and key facts.

Morocco shares land frontiers with the following 2 countries. Select any neighbour to open its own map.

Morocco covers about 446,550 km² (172,414 sq mi). That makes it the 57th-largest country in the world by area and the 25th-largest in Africa, larger by area than 29 of the continent’s 54 countries.

It is home to a population of roughly 36,828,330, the 40th-largest in the world and the 11th-largest in Africa, accounting for about 2.5% of the continent’s people. With that land area, Morocco has an average population density of about 82 people per km². Among the 54 countries of Africa it stands 11th by population and 25th by area.

The seat of government is Rabat, and the official currency is the Moroccan dirham (MAD, د.م.), and the main official languages are Arabic and Berber. Traffic drives on the right, and the country observes the time zone UTC.

Morocco carries the ISO country codes MA and MAR, dials on the international calling code +212 and uses the .ma, المغرب. internet domain.

Morocco shares its land borders with 2 countries, each of which is mapped in full on this site. Listed from the most to the least populous, here is how they compare.

Its neighbours are Spain (capital Madrid, about 49,315,949 people) and Algeria (capital Algiers, about 47,400,000 people).

By area, Morocco is larger than 0 of these neighbours and smaller than 2 of them, which places its size in context along its own frontiers. Open any neighbour above to see its capital, borders and full set of facts on its own map.

The interactive map above is centred on 32.0° N, 5.0° W and opens at zoom level 5, framing Morocco within Africa. A marker pin sits at the country’s approximate geographic centre; drag the map or use scroll and pinch to move from a regional overview down to the streets of Rabat. The map is drawn from OpenStreetMap data, the same open dataset used across this site, so place names, roads and coastlines stay consistent from one country to the next.

Morocco lies about 3,552 km from the equator, in the northern and western hemispheres of the globe. Zoom out to see how its coastline and land borders meet the wider region.

Morocco keeps a single standard time zone, UTC. That figure is the country’s offset from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), the modern reference that for everyday purposes matches Greenwich Mean Time, so local clocks sit +00:00 relative to UTC before any seasonal daylight saving change.

The official currency is the Moroccan dirham (MAD, د.م.).

The official languages are Arabic and Berber, which is what appears on signs, documents and many of the place labels you will see on the map.

For practical reference, vehicles drive on the right-hand side of the road, the international dialling code is +212 and websites commonly use the .ma, المغرب. internet domain.

In short, Morocco is a coastal country in Africa, sharing land borders with 2 countries. Its capital is Rabat. Morocco has a population of about 36,828,330 and covers around 446,550 km² (172,414 sq mi), ranking it 40th in the world by population and 57th by area. The interactive map, facts table and questions on this page bring those details together in one place for Morocco.

The flag of Morocco features a green pentagram — a five-pointed linear star — centered on a red field.

The flag of Morocco is shown above as an emoji, rendered by your device’s own font; see it alongside every other nation on the flags of the world page.