Where is Mauritania?
Mauritania is a country in West Africa.
- Type
- Country
- Continent
- Africa
- Region
- West Africa
- Land borders
- 4: Algeria, Mali, Senegal, Western Sahara
- Area
- About 1 million km² on the game’s map
- Hemispheres
- Northern; Western
- Capital city
- 18.07° N, 15.96° W
About Mauritania
Mauritania is a vast Islamic republic on West Africa's Atlantic coast, with most of its land in the Sahara. Independent from France in 1960, it has seen repeated coups and still struggles with descent-based slavery. Iron ore dominates its exports, and the Richat Structure, the so-called Eye of the Sahara, marks the Adrar Plateau.
Clues from Atlas Daily
Round 4 on 29 September 2026 (#28), hardest clue first:
- A seventeenth-century struggle called the Char Bouba War ended with Arab invaders dominant here.
- Its parliament lost its upper house, the Senate, in 2017.
- Ranked the fourth-worst football side in the world in 2012, it reached the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations.
- About a third of its 4.6 million people live in the Atlantic capital of Nouakchott.
Nearby places from past puzzles
- Senegal 410 km away
- Gambia 520 km away
- Guinea-Bissau 690 km away
- Cape Verde 880 km away
- Guinea 970 km away
- Mali 1,000 km away
- Timbuktu 1,400 km away
- Burkina Faso 1,700 km away
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Sources: Wikipedia: Mauritania. Borders, area and map from Natural Earth 1:50m outlines, the same ones the game uses.