Morocco Morocco Morocco (; ; ), officially the Kingdom of Morocco (; ), is a country located in the Maghreb of North West Africa with an area of . Its capital is Rabat, the largest city Casablanca. It overlooks the Mediterranean Sea to the north and the Atlantic Ocean to the west, bordered to the east by Algeria and to the south by Mauritania. Morocco claims the areas of Ceuta, Melilla and Peñón de Vélez de la Gomera, all of them currently under Spanish jurisdiction. Since the foundation of the first Moroccan state by Idris I in 788 AD, the country
Geography of Morocco vegetation); water supplies contaminated by raw sewage; siltation of reservoirs; oil pollution of coastal waters. "Morocco is party to:" Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol, Desertification, Endangered Species, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea, Marine Dumping, Ozone Layer Protection, Ship Pollution (MARPOL 73/78), Wetlands, Whaling <br>"signed, but not ratified:" Environmental Modification This is a list of the extreme points of Morocco, the points that are farther north, east or west than any other location, excluding the disputed Western Sahara area. Geography of Morocco Morocco spans from the Mediterranean Sea and Atlantic Ocean on the north and the west respectively, into