🇲🇦 New country: fly over Morocco!

Pack your bags — Toponauts is flying to North Africa to explore Morocco! 🇲🇦✈️ It's a country with two different coastlines, a mighty mountain range with snow on top, and the edge of the world's biggest hot desert. Fly over its 12 regions, its winding rivers, and its highest peak, and find out why the capital city isn't even the biggest one!

🗺️ 12 regions, one for every corner

Morocco is divided into 12 regions, each with its own regional capital. Fly over all of them, then zoom into a single region to practise the towns inside it! Here's a fun surprise: the country's official capital is Rabat, but it isn't Morocco's biggest city at all — that title goes to Casablanca, the huge port city on the Atlantic coast. Other famous regional capitals include Marrakech (nicknamed "the Red City" for its clay-coloured walls), Fès (home to one of the oldest, maziest old towns in the world), and Tanger, the gateway city where Africa almost touches Europe.

⛰️ Toubkal, the roof of North Africa

Running right through the middle of the country is the Atlas Mountains, split into three chains: the High Atlas, the Middle Atlas, and the Anti-Atlas. In the High Atlas stands Toubkal, which at 4,167 metres is the highest mountain in Morocco — and in all of North Africa! It's tall enough to stay capped in snow for part of the year, even though it's not that far from the hot Sahara desert. Up along the Mediterranean coast there's a second, smaller mountain range too: the Rif.

🌊 Rivers that shape the land

Morocco's rivers travel in every direction. The Sebou and Oum Er-Rbia are the country's two longest "always-flowing" rivers, watering the farmland plains near the Atlantic coast. The Draa is Morocco's longest river of all — it flows south from the mountains towards the Sahara, but its lower stretch often dries up completely in the desert heat! And the Moulouya is special because it's the only major Moroccan river that flows all the way to the Mediterranean Sea instead of the Atlantic Ocean.

🏜️ Two seas, one desert, and ancient medinas

Morocco is one of the few countries in the world with coastlines on two different seas: the Atlantic Ocean in the west and the Mediterranean Sea in the north. At the narrow Strait of Gibraltar, Morocco and Spain are only about 14 kilometres apart! Down in the south and east, the land turns into the golden dunes of the Sahara desert, where camel caravans still cross the sand. And in its old cities, Morocco is famous for its medinas — historic walled old towns full of narrow, twisting streets, colourful souk markets, and centuries-old buildings.

🎉 Fun facts

• Morocco has 9 UNESCO World Heritage Sites, including the ancient medinas of Fès and Marrakech and the clifftop village of Aït Ben Haddou, famous for its mud-brick towers.
• Three languages share the streets in Morocco: Arabic and Tamazight (Berber) are both official languages, and French is widely used too — so a Moroccan street sign might greet you in all three!
• Morocco isn't just desert — it also grows some of the world's best oranges, olives and argan oil, a golden oil made only from the nuts of a tree that grows almost nowhere else on Earth.
• The word "Marrakech" gave Morocco its name in many languages around the world — even though Marrakech itself is just one of many Moroccan cities!

▶️ How to play

Switch your country to Morocco with the "change your country" button, then pick a map — regions, capitals, big cities, rivers or mountains. Zoom into a single region to practise its towns. Happy flying! 🚁