The Moon, named after Morocco

3 named features. The International Astronomical Union records why each name was chosen, and those reasons are printed below exactly as they were approved.

FEATURES · 3

NAME	TYPE	SIZE	WHY THAT NAME
Alpetragius	crater	40 km	Al-Bitrūjī Al-Ishbīlī, Abū Ishāq; Spanish astronomer (unkn-c. 1100).
Ibn Battuta	crater	11.5 km	Abu Abd Allah Mohammed Ibn Abd Allah; Moroccan geographer (1304-1377).
Al-Marrakushi	crater	8.6 km	Abū `Ali al-Hasan Ibn `Ali al-Marrakushi; Moroccan astronomer, mathematician (fl. c. A.D. 1281/1282).

Names and their origins come from the IAU Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature (USGS Astrogeology), retrieved 2026-08-14.
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DATA: IAU / USGS Astrogeology · NASA LRO LOLA