At 172,402 sq.mi (446,550 sq.km), Morocco is the fifty-seventh largest country in the world.
It is comparable in size to Iraq.
Algeria borders Morocco to the east and southeast.
To the north, Morocco is bordered by and controls part of the Strait of Gibraltar, giving it power over the waterways in and
out of the Mediterranean sea.
The Rif mountains occupy the region bordering the Mediterranean from the
north-west to the north-east.
The Atlas Mountains run down the backbone of the country, from the south west to the north east.
Most of the population lives to the north of these mountains, while to the south is the desert.
To the south, lies the Western Sahara, a former Spanish colony that was annexed by Morocco in 1975. Morocco's capital city is
Rabat; its largest city is its main port, Casablanca.
Other cities include Agadir, Essaouira, Fes, Marrakech, Meknes, Mohammadia,
Oujda, Ouarzazat, Safi, Salè, Tangier and Tétouan.
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