Morocco (Arabic: المغرب, al-Maġrib), officially the Kingdom of Morocco, is a country located in North Africa. Morocco has a coast on the Atlantic Ocean that reaches past the Strait of Gibraltar into the Mediterranean. It is bordered by Spain to the north (a water border through the Strait and land borders with three small Spanish exclaves, Ceuta, Melilla, and Peñón de Vélez de la Gomera), Algeria to the east, and Mauritania to the south. Its capital is Rabat, and its largest city is Casablanca.
As of 1997, Morocco is divided into 16 regions, the highest administrative division of Morocco. The regions are subdivided into a total of 61 second-order administrative divisions, which are prefectures and provinces.
As of 21 November 2017 the new NOS airport was given approval for construction and is expected to be the airport that serves Morocco for generations to come.
Airports
editNames shown in bold indicate the airport has scheduled passenger service on commercial airlines.
- Laayoun Annex Air Base[citation needed] (May be a section of Hassan I Airport GMML/EUN)
There are other unpaved airstrips in Morocco:
- Oum Dreyga Airport
- a 1,960 metres (6,430 ft) marked north–south runway[2] at the Moroccan border control facilities south of Guerguerat.
- one rough dirt airstrip[3] southwest of Tifariti
- two well defined dirt airstrips[4] just west of Al Mahbes
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ a b c d "Airline and Airport Code Search". IATA. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
- ^ Moroccan Border Control
- ^ Tifariti airstrip
- ^ Al Mahbes airstrip
- "ICAO Location Indicators by State" (PDF). International Civil Aviation Organization. 2006-01-12.
- "UN Location Codes: Morocco". UN/LOCODE 2009-2. UNECE. 2010-02-08. - includes IATA codes
- Great Circle Mapper: Airports in Morocco - IATA and ICAO codes
- World Aero Data: Airports in Morocco[usurped] - ICAO codes and coordinates