There is a large population of Moroccans in Italy. are Italians citizens and nationals

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, of the

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with Italian citizenship and an Italian passport of Moroccan descent, immigrants from

Morocco Morocco, officially the Kingdom of Morocco, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It has coastlines on the Mediterranean Sea to the north and the Atlantic Ocean to the west, and has land borders with Algeria to Algeria–Morocc ...

and their descendants are the third largest

after Romanians in Italy and Albanians in Italy. who come from various

s, form a distinct community in

and part of the wider

Moroccan diaspora The Moroccan diaspora (), part of the wider Arab diaspora, consists of emigrants from Morocco and their descendants. An estimated 3 million Moroccans live abroad, with the majority of the diaspora being located in Western Europe, especially Franc ...

. They represent the largest non-European immigrant population in Italy and are widely referred to as ''Italiano-Marocchini'' in Italian. According to the

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, 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 ( , ; ; , then ) 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 city is main ...

17,253 *

Milan Milan ( , , ; ) is a city in northern Italy, regional capital of Lombardy, the largest city in Italy by urban area and the List of cities in Italy, second-most-populous city proper in Italy after Rome. The city proper has a population of nea ...

7,861 *

Rome Rome (Italian language, Italian and , ) is the capital city and most populated (municipality) of Italy. It is also the administrative centre of the Lazio Regions of Italy, region and of the Metropolitan City of Rome. A special named with 2, ...

5,210 *

Genoa Genoa ( ; ; ) is a city in and the capital of the Italian region of Liguria, and the sixth-largest city in Italy. As of 2025, 563,947 people live within the city's administrative limits. While its metropolitan city has 818,651 inhabitan ...

4,213 *

Bologna Bologna ( , , ; ; ) is the capital and largest city of the Emilia-Romagna region in northern Italy. It is the List of cities in Italy, seventh most populous city in Italy, with about 400,000 inhabitants and 150 different nationalities. Its M ...

3,927 *

Modena Modena (, ; ; ; ; ) is a city and ''comune'' (municipality) on the south side of the Po Valley, in the Province of Modena, in the Emilia-Romagna region of northern Italy. It has 184,739 inhabitants as of 2025. A town, and seat of an archbis ...

2,977 *

Reggio Emilia Reggio nell'Emilia (; ), usually referred to as Reggio Emilia, or simply Reggio by its inhabitants, and known until Unification of Italy, 1861 as Reggio di Lombardia, is a city in northern Italy, in the Emilia-Romagna region. It has about 172,51 ...

2,547

Religion

In the years 2011 and 2012 the ISTAT 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

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: 99.0% *

Christianity Christianity is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion, which states that Jesus in Christianity, Jesus is the Son of God (Christianity), Son of God and Resurrection of Jesus, rose from the dead after his Crucifixion of Jesus, crucifixion, whose ...

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

Notable people

* Elijah Benamozegh (1823-1900), rabbi * Souad Sbai (1961), politician * Mostafa Errebbah (1971), long-distance runner * Nadia Ejjafini (1977), long-distance runner * Malika Ayane (1984), singer * Joseph Lasiri (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

Further reading