The Richat Structure, a 40 km geological bullseye in its desert, is clearly visible from orbit.
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Mauritania
Islamic Republic of Mauritania ยท ู
ูุฑูุชุงููุง
Africa
ยท Western Africa
0Population
1.03Mkmยฒ of land
$1.68KGDP / person
NouakchottCapital
- ISO codes
- MR ยท MRT
- Density
- 4 /kmยฒ
- Languages
- Arabic
- Currency
- Mauritanian ouguiya (MRU)
- Dial code
- +222
- Internet domain
- .mr
- Time zones
- 1
- Coastline
- Has a coast
- Map centre
- 19.5870ยฐ N, 9.7400ยฐ W
- Demonym
- Mauritanian
- UN region
- Western Africa
- Economy
- Least developed region
- Income group
- Low income
- Total GDP
- $7.6B
- Sovereignty
- Independent ยท UN member
- Borders
- 4
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By the numbers
How Mauritania stacks up against all 242 mapped countries.
Population
129th
of 242 ยท 0.06% of world population
Land area
30th
of 242 ยท 0.69% of world land
GDP per person
193rd
richest of 242 by output per person
Population density
218th
most crowded of 242
Ten facts about Mauritania
The first is hand-written; the rest are worked out from this country's own figures.
Population is about 4,525,696 people, the 129th largest of the 242 countries mapped here - roughly one in 1,696 of everyone alive.
Covers 1,030,700 kmยฒ, making it the 30th largest country here - about 11.2 times the size of Portugal.
Population density is about 4 people per kmยฒ.
The capital is Nouakchott, at 18.09ยฐ N, 15.98ยฐ W, with a metropolitan population of about 742,144.
Shares land borders with 3 countries: Algeria, Mali and Senegal.
Has its own coastline and direct access to the open sea.
Keeps a single time zone, Africa/Nouakchott.
The currency is the Mauritanian ouguiya (MRU, symbol UM).
The official language is Arabic.
Local time
Live, from PHP's IANA database.
Africa/Nouakchott
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UTC+00:00
Cities
The largest places we hold coordinates for. Click a row to fly the map there.
1
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Nouakchott
Nouakchott
18.0864ยฐ N, 15.9753ยฐ W
742.14K
2
Nouadhibou
Dakhlet Nouadhibou
20.9000ยฐ N, 17.0560ยฐ W
86.74K
3
Atar
Adrar
20.5166ยฐ N, 13.0500ยฐ W
44.27K
4
Ayoun el Atrous
Hodh el Gharbi
16.6666ยฐ N, 9.6167ยฐ W
1.42K
Land neighbours
3 countries share a border with Mauritania.