Moroccans in France
French-Moroccans or Franco-Moroccans or simply (French: Franco-Marocains) are French citizens and nationals ethnic group, of the France with French citizenship and a French passport of Moroccans descent, immigrants from Morocco to the France and their descendants they are the second largest ethnic group in the France after Algerians in France. French people of Moroccan descent living in France account for a large sector of the total immigrant population in France. Following the French protectorate in French Morocco from 1912 to 1956, many Moroccans chose to immigrate to France from the 1960s to the present due to France's favorable economic conditions.
| Total population | |
|---|---|
| 1,500,000 (Moroccan origin) and (433,026) Moroccan-born people | |
| Languages | |
| French (Maghrebi French), Arabic (Moroccan Arabic, Jebli Arabic, Judeo-Moroccan Arabic, Hassaniya Arabic), Berber (Tashlhit, Tarifit, Central Atlas Tamazight), Spanish | |
| Religion | |
| Majority Muslim Judaism, and Mainly Christianity (mostly Catholic and Protestant minorities), Islam (mostly Sunni Islam) and other religions Irreligion. | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Algerians in France Tunisians in France |
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