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Moroccans

Moroccans
المغاربة
ⵎⵓⵔⴰⴽⵓⵛ
Total population
~ 38M
Regions with significant populations
 Morocco 33,322,699
 France 1,514,000
 Spain 792,158
 Italy 524,775
 Belgium 500,000
 Israel 486,600
 Netherlands 385,761
 Germany 140,000
 Canada 100,000
 United Arab Emirates 100,000
 United States 113,544
 United Kingdom 70,000
 Algeria 63,000
 Saudi Arabia 60,000
 Libya 50,000
 Sweden 40,000
 Norway 30,000
 Denmark 26,000
 Egypt 18,000
 Qatar 9,000
 Tunisia 9,500
  Switzerland 7,270
 Ukraine 7,000
 Australia 4,200
 Oman 4,000
 Brazil 3,500
 Russia 3,400
 Syria 3,056
 South Africa 2,100
 Ivory Coast 1,800
 Finland 1,200
 Mauritania 1,056
Languages
Moroccan Arabic, Berber dialects
Religion
Predominantly Islam (Sunni, Nondenominational Muslims,Sufi); minority Judaism, Christianity

Moroccans (Arabic: المغاربة al-Magharibah, Berber: ⵉⵎⵖⵕⴰⴱⵉⵢⵏ ; Imɣṛabiyen) are a people that share a common Moroccan culture and ancestry.

In addition to the 33 million Moroccans in Morocco, there is a large Moroccan diaspora in France, Belgium, Israel, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, and a smaller one in United Kingdom, United States, Canada, Arabian Peninsula and in other Arab states. A sizable part of the Moroccan diaspora is composed of Moroccan Jews.

In traditional physical anthropology, the indigenous Berbers of Morocco and elsewhere in the Maghreb are among the various Hamitic inhabitants of Africa, representing the westernmost branch. As such, the principal morphological element in the local population is the Mediterranean type (Atlanto-Mediterranean and Basic Mediterranean).

The first anatomically modern humans (Homo sapiens sapiens) in North Africa are the makers of the Aterian, a Middle Stone Age (or Middle Palaeolithic) stone tool culture. The earliest Aterian lithic assemblages date to around 145,000 years ago, and were discovered at the site of Ifri n'Ammar in Morocco. This industry was followed by the Iberomaurusian culture, a backed bladelet industry found throughout the Maghreb. It was originally described in 1909 at the site of Abri Mouillah. Other names for this Cro-Magnon-associated culture include Mouillian and Oranian. The Epipaleolithic Iberomaurusian makers were centered in prehistoric sites, such as Taforalt and Mechta-Afalou. They were succeeded by the Capsians. The Capsian culture is often thought to have arrived in Africa from the Near East, although it is also suggested that the Iberomaurusians may have been the progenitors of the Capsians. Around 5000 BC, the populations of North Africa were primarily descended from the makers of the Iberomaurusian and Capsian cultures, with a more recent intrusion associated with the Neolithic revolution. The proto-Berber tribes evolved from these prehistoric communities during the Late Bronze to Early Iron Age.


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