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Eight friendly questions about the essentials of Morocco, from its busy cities to everyday life. No expert knowledge needed: everyone can join in.
Medina explorer 0–3 · Mosaic admirer 4–6 · Honorary Moroccan 7–8
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The Sahara is the largest hot desert in the world and stretches right across North Africa. At Erg Chebbi in Morocco its dunes rise to about 150 metres, and visitors ride camels out to desert camps to spend the night among the sand.
Photo: Bjørn Christian Tørrissen, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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Couscous is made from tiny rolled balls of semolina, a coarse wheat flour, steamed until fluffy and usually topped with a stew. In 2020 UNESCO added it to its list of the world's cultural heritage, at the joint request of Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and Mauritania.
Photo: Lmmima, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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Arabic and Berber are Morocco's two official languages, and about nine in ten Moroccans speak Darija, the everyday Moroccan form of Arabic. French is taught in every school as well, and it is widely used in business and in the media.
Photo: Omar-Toons, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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The green five-pointed star was added in 1915 to set Morocco's red flag apart from other red flags, especially at sea. The rules are very precise: the law names the exact shades, bright red and palm green, and even fixes the size of an invisible circle that the star must fit in.
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Casablanca is Morocco's business centre, and its name means 'white house' in Spanish; its Arabic name, Dar al-Bayda, means the same. The famous 1942 film 'Casablanca' was not made there at all: it was shot almost entirely in a studio in California.
Photo: Chah.salah, Wikimedia Commons, CC0.
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Marrakesh's red walls were built in the 1120s, and many later buildings were made of red sandstone. In the evenings its huge main square, Jemaa el-Fnaa, fills with food stalls, musicians and storytellers, a tradition that UNESCO has recognised as part of the world's cultural heritage.
Photo: Acp, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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The team is called the Atlas Lions, after the Barbary lions that once roamed the mountains and deserts of North Africa. In 2022 Morocco became the first African and the first Arab team ever to reach a World Cup semi-final, and in 2030 it is due to host the World Cup together with Spain and Portugal.
Photo: Photograph by Fernandus (formerly of Biskra, Algeria), published by Alfred Edwar, Wikimedia Commons, Public domain.
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Goats do clamber into the thorny branches to nibble the fruit, especially in autumn when there is little else to eat, though near busy tourist roads some are put up in the trees by herders for photos. As they chew, the goats spit out the hard nuts and so help new argan trees to grow, and the kernels inside those nuts are pressed to make argan oil.
Photo: Bjørn Christian Tørrissen, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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