located_in North Africa Morocco A country in North Africa. It has a coast on the Atlantic Ocean that reaches past the Strait of Gibraltar into the Mediterranean Sea. Morocco has international borders with Algeria to the east, Spain to the north (a water border through the Strait and land borders with two small Spanish autonomous cities, Ceuta and Melilla), and Mauritania to the south. Morocco is divided into 16 regions, and subdivided into 62 prefectures and provinces. Because of the conflict over Western Sahara, the status of both regions of "Saguia el-Hamra" and "Rio de Oro" is disputed. Al-Mamlaka al-Maghribiyya GAZ GAZ:00000565 GAZ:00000565 ISO3166-1:504 ISO3166-1:MA ISO3166-1:MAR ISO3166-2:MA Kingdom of Morocco North Africa Morocco A country in North Africa. It has a coast on the Atlantic Ocean that reaches past the Strait of Gibraltar into the Mediterranean Sea. Morocco has international borders with Algeria to the east, Spain to the north (a water border through the Strait and land borders with two small Spanish autonomous cities, Ceuta and Melilla), and Mauritania to the south. Morocco is divided into 16 regions, and subdivided into 62 prefectures and provinces. Because of the conflict over Western Sahara, the status of both regions of "Saguia el-Hamra" and "Rio de Oro" is disputed. Al-Mamlaka al-Maghribiyya GAZ GAZ:00000565 GAZ:00000565 ISO3166-1:504 ISO3166-1:MA ISO3166-1:MAR ISO3166-2:MA Kingdom of Morocco