Why is electric current not a vector quantity

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Dear student. Current is a scalar quantity because it always flows from +ve to -ve irrelevant of the direction. A vector is a quantity which has magnitude and direction but the current only has magnitude and it is not a requirement to assign a direction to it. Regards

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