Einar H. Dyvik
Research expert covering Nordics and global data for society, economy, and politics
Morocco - Statistics & Facts
Morocco is located in North Africa. Its coastline borders on both the Atlantic and Mediterranean Sea, and neighbors include Algeria and Mauritania. The Western Sahara, located to the south of Morocco on the Atlantic coast, remains a disputed territory between Morocco and the Algerian-backed Polisario Front. While Morocco controls and administers a large part of the region, the UN does not recognize this. The Western Sahara is valuable because it is home to some of the world’s largest reserves of phosphate and it is believed that off-shore oil deposits also exist.
