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Internet TLD. .ma. .المغرب. Morocco, [d] officially the Kingdom of Morocco, [e] is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It overlooks the Mediterranean Sea to the north and the Atlantic Ocean to the west, and has land borders with Algeria to the east, and the disputed territory of Western Sahara to the south.
A national identity program existed in Morocco since the late 1970s, the Moroccan national identity card was instituted as n° 1-73-560 and signed by King Hassan II on 15 February 1977 following a meeting with the Council of Ministers on 13 March 1975. [7] [15] A semi-electronic identity system was introduced in 1996 with a paper fingerprint ...
Preceded by. Succeeded by. Sultanate of Morocco. Kingdom of Morocco. The French protectorate in Morocco, [4] also known as French Morocco, was the period of French colonial rule in Morocco that lasted from 1912 to 1956. [5] The protectorate was officially established 30 March 1912, when Sultan Abd al-Hafid signed the Treaty of Fez, though the ...
Since 2015, Morocco officially administers 12 regions, including one ( Dakhla-Oued Ed-Dahab) that lies completely within the disputed territory of Western Sahara and two ( Laâyoune-Sakia El Hamra and Guelmim-Oued Noun) that lie partially within it. The regions are subdivided into a total of 75 second-level administrative divisions, which are ...
The Proclamation of Independence of Morocco ( Arabic: وثيقة الاستقلال, French: Manifeste de l'Indépendance du Maroc ), also translated as the Manifesto of Independence of Morocco or Proclamation of January 11, 1944, is a document in which Moroccan nationalists called for the independence of Morocco in its national entirety under ...
Rabat (/ r ə ˈ b ɑː t /, also UK: / r ə ˈ b æ t /, US: / r ɑː ˈ b ɑː t /; Arabic: الرباط, romanized: ar-Ribāṭ) is the capital city of Morocco and the country's seventh-largest city with an urban population of approximately 580,000 (2014) and a metropolitan population of over 1.2 million.
France started to send ships to Morocco in 1555, under the rule of Henry II, son of Francis I. [5] France, under Henry III, established a Consul in Fes, Morocco, as early as 1577, in the person of Guillaume Bérard, and was the first European country to do so. [6] [7] Under Henry, France named Guillaume Bérard as the first Consul of France in ...
Moroccan passports are issued to nationals and citizens of Morocco for the purpose of international travel. Besides serving as a proof of Moroccan citizenship, they facilitate the process of securing assistance from Moroccan consular officials abroad if needed. Since 15 December 2009, a biometric passport was available for all new applicants.