{"id":14505,"date":"2025-09-24T13:16:46","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T07:46:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=14505"},"modified":"2025-09-24T13:28:38","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T07:58:38","slug":"morocco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/morocco\/","title":{"rendered":"Key Facts About Morocco"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Morocco Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Recently, India and Morocco signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on defence cooperation in Rabat, with the Defence Minister of India.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Morocco<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Location: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is <\/span><b>located in the Maghreb region<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in the Northern and Western Hemisphere regions of the Earth.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Bordering countries:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It is bordered by <\/span><b>Western Sahara <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">to the south and <\/span><b>Algeria to the east.<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It has coastlines on <\/span><b>the Atlantic Ocean<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to the west and the <\/span><b>Mediterranean Sea<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to the north.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is the only African country with coastlines on both the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Two small Spanish enclaves, <\/span><b>Ceuta and Melilla,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> are situated on the country\u2019s northern coast.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Climate:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Most of Morocco <\/span><b>north of Western Sahara<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, particularly along the coasts, experiences a typical <\/span><b>Mediterranean climate<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, with mild wet winters and hot dry summers.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>River:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The <\/span><b>Mououya River<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is the most significant source of water in Morocco. Its source is located in the Atlas Mountains and flows into the Mediterranean Sea.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Highest point:<\/b> <b>Jebel Toubkal<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is the highest point of Morocco and is also the highest peak of the Atlas Mountains.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Political System:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It has a constitutional monarchy with two legislative houses.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Economy:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It remains heavily dependent on the export of raw materials.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Language:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Morocco\u2019s official languages are <\/span><b>Arabic and Tamazight<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Berber). Arabic is spoken by about two-thirds of the population.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Capital City:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Rabat.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/india-morocco-sign-defence-cooperation-mou-to-boost-strategic-partnership\/article70081661.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">TH<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Morocco is located in the Maghreb region in the Northern and Western Hemisphere regions of the Earth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":64958,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2867],"class_list":{"0":"post-14505","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-morocco","9":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14505\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}