What every visitor should know about Morocco:
- Money
- The currency is the Moroccan dirham (MAD). 1 MAD is worth about US$0.13, or €0.09.
- Crime
- CrimeSafe Travel Score™: 3.5 out of 5 (Safe)
Areas of concern:
- Mugging
- Pick-pocketing / bag-snatching
- Armed robbery is rare but occurs
- Capital
- Rabat
- Tap water
- Unsafe. Water purification efforts are inadequate to guarantee safe supply. Drink boiled or bottled water whenever possible.
Morocco facts and figures:
People
- Population
- 34,859,364
- Language
- Arabic (official), Berber dialects, French often the language of business, government, and diplomacy
- Ethnicity
- Arab-Berber 99.1%, other 0.7%, Jewish 0.2%
Economy
- GDP
- US$4,000 (per capita)
- Income equality
- Moderate