There is a large population of Moroccans in Italy. According to the

Italian National Institute of Statistics The Italian National Institute of Statistics ( it, Istituto nazionale di statistica; Istat) is the main producer of official statistics in Italy. Its activities include the census of population, economic censuses and a number of social, economic ...

, the country was home to 420,650 Moroccan immigrants in 2017. The equivalent figure in 2014 was 454,773.

Geographical distribution

Based on Demo Istat statistics. *

Turin Turin ( , Piedmontese: ; it, Torino ) is a city and an important business and cultural centre in Northern Italy. It is the capital city of Piedmont and of the Metropolitan City of Turin, and was the first Italian capital from 1861 to 1865. The ...

17,253 *

Milan Milan ( , , Lombard: ; it, Milano ) is a city in northern Italy, capital of Lombardy, and the second-most populous city proper in Italy after Rome. The city proper has a population of about 1.4 million, while its metropolitan city h ...

7,861 *

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5,210 *

Genoa Genoa ( ; it, Genova ; lij, Zêna ). is the capital of the Italian region of Liguria and the sixth-largest city in Italy. In 2015, 594,733 people lived within the city's administrative limits. As of the 2011 Italian census, the Province of ...

4,213 *

Bologna Bologna (, , ; egl, label=Emilian language, Emilian, Bulåggna ; lat, Bononia) is the capital and largest city of the Emilia-Romagna region in Northern Italy. It is the seventh most populous city in Italy with about 400,000 inhabitants and 1 ...

3,927 * Modena 2,977 * Reggio Emilia 2,547

Religion

In the years 2011 and 2012 the

ISTAT The Italian National Institute of Statistics ( it, Istituto nazionale di statistica; Istat) is the main producer of official statistics in Italy. Its activities include the census of population, economic censuses and a number of social, economic ...

made a survey regarding the religious affiliation among the immigrants in Italy, the religion of the Moroccan people in Italy were as follows: * Star and Crescent

Muslims Muslims ( ar, المسلمون, , ) are people who adhere to Islam, a monotheistic religion belonging to the Abrahamic tradition. They consider the Quran, the foundational religious text of Islam, to be the verbatim word of the God of Abrah ...

: 99.0% *

Christianity Christianity is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth. It is the world's largest and most widespread religion with roughly 2.38 billion followers representing one-third of the global pop ...

: 0.3% * Non religious: 0.5% * Other religions: 0.3%

Notable people

Mostafa Errebbah Mostafa Errebbah (born 1 August 1971 in Douar Krazza) is a Moroccan-born Italian long-distance runner who specialized in the 5000 metres. Biography He competed at the 2000 World Half Marathon Championships for Morocco. He then became an Itali ...

(1971), long-distance runner * Nadia Ejjafini (1977), long-distance runner *

Malika Ayane Malika Ayane (; born 31 January 1984) is an Italian pop singer. Early life Malika Ayane was born in Milan, Italy, on 31 January 1984, to a Moroccan father, Ahmed, and an Italian mother. She grew up in the Zone 2 of Milan, the most multi-ethn ...

(1984), singer *

Joseph Lasiri Joseph Lasiri (born July 19, 1991) is an Italian Muay Thai fighter. He is currently signed to ONE Championship, where he is the reigning ONE Strawweight Muay Thai World Champion. Lasiri is a WBC Muay Thai World Bantamweight Champion and a 5- ...

(1991), Muay Thai fighter List of ONE Championship champions#ONE Strawweight Muay Thai World Champion * Adam Masina (1994), footballer * Walid Cheddira (1998), footballer * Hachim Mastour (1998), footballer * Shady Oukhadda (1999), footballer

Geographical distribution

Religion

Notable people

See also

References

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