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Foreign Trade and Business in Morocco, Rabat (Maghreb)

Morocco is a Maghrebian country (north-west Africa)

1. المغرب in Arabic = Western Kingdom
2. ⵍⵎⵖⵔⵉⴱ in Berber
3. Rabat is the Moroccan capital
4. Casablanca is the economic capital of Morocco and the largest Moroccan city
5. Main Moroccan cities: Rabat (Salé), Casablanca, Marrakesh, Tangier (Tetouan), Fez, Meknes, Oujda, Agadir, Ouarzazate and Laayoune
6. The pillars of the Moroccan Constitution: Islam, Arabicity and Amazighité
7. Morocco is the fifth largest African Economy
8. The Kingdom of Morocco is an African Frontier Market
9. Morocco is the first African Country by the Index of Quality of Life (Economist Intelligence Unit) ahead of South Africa
10. The main Moroccan economic activities are services (50% of the Moroccan GDP), industry (mining sector -phosphates-, construction and manufacturing), agriculture and fishing
    1. Morocco is the largest African fishing market
    2. Main industries in Morocco: outsourcing activities, automotive sector, aeronautics, electronics, agri-food sector, seafood and textiles.
    3. Morocco has 75% of the world phosphates reserves
       1. Morocco is the largest exporter and the third largest producer in the world
11. The most dynamic Moroccan economic sectors are tourism, telecommunications, information technologies and textiles
12. Building and real estate boom
13. Morocco share borders with Algeria (1,608 kilometres), Spain and the Western Sahara
    1. Three small Spanish enclaves in Morocco: Ceuta, Melilla and the Penon de Vélez de la Gomera
    2. Morocco does not recognise the Western Sahara (former Spanish Sahara), so Morocco considers that shares borders with Mauritania (1,561 kilometres)

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1. Moroccan area: 446,550 square kilometres
2. Morocco is characterised by a rugged mountainous interior (Atlas), the Sahara desert to the south and a long coastline along the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea.
   1. Rif mountains extend through the region that borders the Mediterranean from the north-west to the north-east
   2. Atlas Mountains descend through Morocco from the north-east to the south-west.
   3. Most of the south-eastern part of the country is located in the Sahara Desert
3. Regions of Morocco

1. Moroccan population: 36 million inhabitants
2. Morocco is a regionalised unitary constitutional parliamentary monarchy
   1. King Mohammed VI (the commander of the believers), as a direct descendant of the Prophet Muhammad, has broad executive and legislative powers (dahirs)
3. Climate of Morocco: Mediterranean
4. Calling code of Morocco: 212
5. Country code top-level domain of Morocco: .ma
6. Independence of Morocco (France)
7. Moroccan currency: Moroccan Dirham (MAD​)

Othman Benjelloun (Moroccan Businessman, Fez)

Aziz Akhannouch (Tafraout)

Miloud Chaabi (Esauira)

Mohammed Hassan Bensalah (Berkane)

Anas Sefrioui (Fez)

Transport and Logistics in Morocco

1. Port of Casablanca
2. Cairo-Dakar Corridor

Economic Integration Organisations (Morocco).

1. Arab Maghreb Union (AMU)
2. Community of Sahel-Saharan States (CEN-SAD)
3. Islamic Development Bank
4. Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC)
5. Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ECSWA)
6. Arab League (LAS)
7. Greater Arab Free-Trade Area (GAFTA)
8. Agadir Agreement (Euro-Mediterranean free trade zone)
9. Euro-Mediterranean Partnership (EUROMED)
10. European Union-Morocco Economic partnership agreement
11. EFTA-Morocco Free Trade Agreement
12. United States-Morocco Agreement
13. Morocco-Turkey Agreement
14. United Kingdom-Morocco Free Trade Agreement
15. Morocco-United Arab Emirates Free Trade Agreement
16. Global System of Trade Preferences among Developing Countries (GSTP)

2017: Morocco has requested access to the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS)

1. African Union (AU)
2. Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA)
3. African Development Bank (AfDB)

Moroccan ethnic groups:

The majority of the population is Berber (Amazigh) origin

1. Morocco has been inhabited by the Berbers (Imazighen) for at least 5,000 years
2. Moroccans consider themselves Arab-Berbers
3. Berbers arabisation process

The official languages of Morocco are Arabic (Darija) and Amazigh (Berber, Tamazight, 12-15 million Moroccans)

1. French is widely used in Morocco in government, large companies and in education. Morocco is a member of La Francophonie
2. Spanish is used in the north

Religion in Morocco: Sunni Islam (100% of the Moroccan population), Maliki ritual

Higher Education in Morocco

Marruecos Maroc Marrocos

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