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Mauritania

Islamic Republic of Mauritania

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Sovereign state in West Africa and North Africa.

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Country Calling Code:
+222
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Population:
4,614,974
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Mobile Country Code:
609
Demonym:
Mauritanian
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Unemployment Rate:
31
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Mains Voltage:
220
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Age of Majority:
18
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Licence Plate Code:
RIM
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Total Fertility Rate:
4.603
Motto Text:
Honor, Fraternity, Justice
Maritime Identification Digits:
654
Area:
1,030,700
Life Expectancy:
63.238
Inception:
11/28/1960
Unicode Character:
🇲🇷
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Democracy Index:
3.92
Human Development Index:
0.556
Hashtag:
Mauritania
Gini Coefficient:
32.6
Inequality-Adjusted Human Development Index:
0.389
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Wikipedia | Mauritania

Mauritania, formally the Islamic Republic of Mauritania, is a sovereign country in Northwest Africa. It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the west, Western Sahara to the north and northwest, Algeria to the northeast, Mali to the east and southeast, and Senegal to the southwest. By land area Mauritania is the 11th-largest country in Africa and 28th-largest in the world; 90% of its territory is in the Sahara. Most of its population of some 4.3 million lives in the temperate south of the country, with roughly a third concentrated in the capital and largest city, Nouakchott, on the Atlantic coast.