Morocco vs United Kingdom

Morocco is 2.9 times larger than United Kingdom — 716,550 against 243,610 km². United Kingdom is 1.8 times more populous than Morocco — 69,487,000 against 38,430,770 people.

Side by side

Population density

United Kingdom is 5.3 times more densely populated than Morocco — 285 against 54 people per km². Density is where area and population interact, and it often reverses the impression the headline figures give — a large country with a small population can feel emptier than a small crowded one by an enormous margin.

Practical differences

• They drive on opposite sides — Morocco on the right, United Kingdom on the left.
• Different currencies: the Moroccan dirham and the British pound.
• Different continents — Africa and Europe.

Morocco

Toubkal in the High Atlas is 4,167 m, the highest point in North Africa, and holds snow into early summer within sight of the desert. The Atlas ranges cut the country in two, wet Atlantic plains on one side and Sahara on the other.

United Kingdom

Made up of Great Britain, the north-east of Ireland and around 6,000 smaller islands. No point in the UK is more than about 113 km from the sea. Ben Nevis, the highest point, is 1,345 m, which is modest — but the country has around 31,000 km of coastline once every inlet is counted.

Neutral facts only. Nothing here addresses politics, government, economics or which country is preferable in any respect — population is the one figure that dates, and it carries its year.