Morocco is a state located in the far west of North Africa, the capital of Rabat, and largest city of Casablanca, the economic capital. Morocco is a system of parliamentary monarchy constitutional of the parliament to be elected.
Morocco is a member of the United Nations since 1956, and the League of Arab States since 1958, and the International Committee of the Olympic Games since 1959, the Organization of the Islamic Conference since 1969, and the International Organization of la Francophonie and since 1981, the Maghreb Union since 1989, and the Mediterranean dialog since 1995, and the Group of Seventy-seven since 2003, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) as an ally of the President of the Outside since 2004, then the Union for the Mediterranean 2008.
Also elected were Morocco recently a new member of the non-permanent member of the Security Council of the United Nations mandate for two years, starting from light January 2012 until December 2013.
Morocco is the only African country which is not a member of the African Union, which replaced the Organization of African Unity, which withdrew from Morocco in 1984 because of its refusal to recognize the sovereignty over the Western Desert, but it had a special place in the Union: making use of the services offered by the EU countries, as a group, the African Development Bank.
In 2008 the European Union granted Morocco advanced mode in the partnership agreements and neighborhood, which can be Morocco to participate in some European agencies. As Morocco had agreed to join gradually to the Gulf Cooperation Council after an invitation to join the year 2011
Location:
Do Morocco in the far north of the West Africa, Morocco and overlooks the Mediterranean Sea in the north, and the Atlantic Ocean to the west, (situated midway between the Strait of Gibraltar), is bounded by east Algeria and South Mauritania.
Size:
550 446 km2.
Population:
585 46,031,077 32 (according to the mission of the High Commissioner for Planning).
Major Cities:
Rabat (capital), Casablanca (Morocco's biggest city and the economic capital), Fez (scientific capital), Marrakesh, Meknès, Tangier, Agadir, Jeddah, Tetouan, Sala.
Resources:
In Morocco huge quantities of some types of mineral resources, as the country is the third largest phosphate producer in the world, after China and the United States, and the first source where the reserve has three quarters of the world's reserves. It also includes Morocco a little stock of iron and other minerals like cobalt, copper, zinc and antimony, silver and discovered quantities of gold in the year 2003 in Agadir.
Longer energy sources in Morocco limited where the production of the country were anthracite and natural gas covers less than 5% of the needs, the Forced Morocco to import. But the discovery of oil and natural gas in the different regions, despite its modest quantity, hope.
Morocco hopes through an important project solar energy to reduce its dependence on the sources of foreign energy and the protection of the environment. The project at a cost of 9 billion dollars to the power of 2000 megawatts by 2020 please to reducing the adoption of the United Kingdom on the imports of electricity, oil, gas, formed 96 per cent of the Moroccan energy in the year 2007.
Also occupies the lead tourism in the services sector, the Marrakesh is the first city of tourism, followed by the city of Agadir and then the Cities: Tangiers, Casablanca, Fez, Ouarzazate and Rabat, Tetouan, Meknes, Swaira.
Estimated size of arable land in Morocco about Recalls 240,000 Saturns square kilometers, is the second source voltmeter in the world, the seventh producer of olive oil. He is also considered one of the largest producers of fish in the world.
The era of independence:
Hassan II bin Mohamed: who lived between 1929 - 1999 rule between 1961 - 1999
Mohammed VI Bin Al-Hassan: born in 1963, and took the throne in 1999 - and the King of Morocco.
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