Moroccans in Italy

There is a large population of Moroccans in Italy. are Italians citizens and nationals ethnic group, of the Italy with Italian citizenship and an Italian passport of Moroccans descent, immigrants from Morocco to the Italy and their descendants they are the third largest ethnic group in the Italy after Romanians in Italy and Albanians in Italy. who come from various ethnic groups, form a distinct community in Italy and part of the wider Moroccan diaspora. They represent the largest non-Europeans immigrant population in Italy and are widely referred to as Italiano-Marocchini in Italians. According to the Italian National Institute of Statistics, 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 17,253
 * Milan 7,861
 * Rome 5,210
 * Genoa 4,213
 * Bologna 3,927
 * Modena 2,977
 * Reggio Emilia 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.svg Muslims: 99.0%
 * Gold Christian Cross no Red.svg Christianity: 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
 * Adam Masina (1994), footballer
 * Walid Cheddira (1998), footballer
 * Hachim Mastour (1998), footballer
 * Shady Oukhadda (1999), footballer