Why is Morocco called Morocco?

As other answers pointed out, Morocco is called “Fas” in Turkey, which is the name of another city that had been an imperial capital. But most interestingly, Morocco is still called “Marrakech” in Iran, and Arab countries gave the country its Arabic name “Al Maghrib”, as Marrakech is in fact a Berber name. read more

The name comes from Marrakech, which used to be the capital and the major city in that time with the king ruling the country out from this city. The name Morocco derived than from the name Marrakech. Reason is that the real name of Morocco in Arabic is Maghreb, which for European is a little difficult to pronounce. Morocco is quite easier. read more