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Key facts
- Seat of secretariat
- Rabat, Morocco
- Largest city
- Casablanca, Morocco
- Official language
- Arabic
- Demonym
- Maghrebis
- Member states
- Algeria Libya Mauritania Morocco Tunisia
- Secretary general
- Taïeb Baccouche
- Establishment
- 17 February 1989
- Total
- 6,046,441 km (2,334,544 sq mi) ( 7th )
- 2020 estimate
- 102,877,547 ( 13th )
- Density
- 17/km (44.0/sq mi) ( 217th )
- Gdp ppp
- 2020 estimate
- Per capita
- $12,628
- Gdp nominal
- 2020 estimate
- Gini 2012
- 32.8, medium inequality
- Hdi 2019
- 0.715, high ( 106th )
- Currency
- Algerian dinar Libyan dinar Mauritanian ouguiya Moroccan dirham Tunisian dinar
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- confederation
- Official name
- ⵜⴰⵎⵓⵏⵜ ⵏ ⵍⵎⵖⵔⵉⴱ
- Demonym
- المغاربة
- Located in
- Al-Maghrib al-Awsat
- Continent
- Africa
- Capital
- Rabat
- Official language
- Arabic
- Shares border with
- Sudan
- Founded by
- Algeria
- Official website
- maghrebarabe.org
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- short name
- الاتحاد المغاربي
- native label
- اتحاد المغرب العربي
- official observer status in organization
- International Organization for Migration
- Commons category
- Arab Maghreb Union
- inception
- 1989-00-00
- topic has template
- Q7303035
- located in the present-day administrative territorial entity
- Mauritania
- P8168
- Mashita Nagamori
- different from
- Maghreb
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Encyclopedic overview
The Arab Maghreb Union (Arabic: إتحاد المغرب العربي Ittiḥād al-Maghrib al-‘Arabī; AMU/UMA) is a political union and economic union trade agreement aiming for economic and future political unity among Arab countries that are located primarily in the Maghreb in North Africa. Its members are the nations of Algeria, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco and Tunisia. The Union has been unable to achieve tangible progress on its goals due to deep economic and political disagreements between Morocco and Algeria regarding, among others, the issue of Western Sahara. No high-level meetings have taken place since 3 July 2008, and commentators regard the Union as largely dormant.
Creation
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