Morocco

Morocco is a country in the Northern Africa region. Rabat is its capital city. Surface area of this country is 446,550 sq km and the name of its currency is dirham.

It is situated in the North-West corner of Africa, three times the size of Great Britain, its coast-line stretching from Algeria to Cape Nun, and its inland confines being vaguely determined by the French hinterlands. Two-thirds of the country is desert and much of the remainder is poor pasture land. The Atlas Mountains stretch from South-West to North-East, but there are some expanses of level fertile country. On the seaboard the climate is delightful, with abundance of rain in the season. Among the mountains extremes prevail. South of the Atlas it is hot and almost rainless. The mineral wealth is probably great. Gold, silver, copper, and iron are known to be plentiful.

The exports are maize, pulse, oil, wool, fruit, and cattle. Cloth, tea, coffee, and hardware are imported. The chief industries are the making of leather, "Fez" caps, carpets, and the breeding of horses. The Sultan's authority over many of the tribes is merely nominal. Education level is poor. The religion is Mohammedanism. The country was taken from the Romans by the Arabs in the 7th century, and has ever since been in their hands, but Berbers, Spaniards, Moors, Jews, and negroes also go to make up the population. The chief towns are Fez, in the North, a sacred Moslem city, squalid and dirty, but with good trade, and a depôt for the caravans from the interior, and Morocco, in the South, near the Tensift River, 240 miles South-West of Fez, well situated for local and transit trade.

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