Wikipedia readers turned to Morocco at 25x the usual rate

What this article is

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 the east; the Spanish exclaves of Ceuta, Melilla and Peñón de Vélez de la Gomera along the north, which it claims together with several small Spanish-controlled islands; and the disputed territory of Western Sahara to the south, partly occupied by Morocco since 1975. Morocco also claims to share a border with Mauritania through the disputed territory of Western Sahara. It has a population of approximately 37 million. Its capital is Rabat, while its largest city is Casablanca.

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Rose at the same time

4 other articles that this one is connected to surged alongside it. What they have in common is left to you — the pageview record shows that attention moved together, not why.

• Yassine Bounou Morocco international footballer (born 1991)
• Algeria Country in North Africa
• Issa Diop (footballer) Moroccan footballer (born 1997)
• Mohamed Ouahbi Moroccan football manager (born 1976)

How this was measured

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