About Mauritania
Official Name: Islamic Republic of Mauritania
Independence date: November 28, 1960
Biography of the new President:
-Name : Mohamed Ould CHEIKH EL GAZOUANI
Presisent of the Islamic Republic of Mauritania, Head of State (elected on June 2, 2019)
Geographical
position: Mauritania is situated between the 15º
and the 17º longitude West and the 15º and the
28º latitude North. It is limited in the North by Western
Sahara and Algeria, in East and South-East by Mali, in South by Senegal
and in West by the Atlantic Ocean.
Time difference: GMT
Land: 1,030,700 sq km
Climate: Mauritania has a dry and hot climate
in its septentrional part where the annual rain fall average
is 63mm, and a hot and humid climate of Soudano-Sahelien type
in its meridional part where the annual average of rain fall
may attend 500 to 650 mm.
Population: about 4,300,000 habitants.
Demographic density: 4.17/sq km
Demographic annual growth rate: 2.8 %
Life expectancy: 63 years
Religion: Islam
Political regime: Mauritania benefits a semi-presidential
democratic regime in favor of the adoption of a pluralist constitution
of liberal inspiration.
Political capital: Nouakchott with more than one million habitants
Other big cities: Nouadhibou, Kiffa, Atar, Rosso
Official Language: Arabic
Other National Languages: Poulaar, Soninke,Wolof
The most used foreign language: French
National currency: Ouguiya ( UM )
- one Yen (¥) = Approximately 0.3 UM
- one Euro ( € ) = Approximately 40 UM
- one Dollar ($) = Approximately 36 UM
How to go to Mauritania from Japan:
- Through Paris by Air France
- Through Istanbul by Turkish Airlines
National anthem: click here
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