Monday, May 16, 2005

Mauritania

Officially  Islamic Republic of Mauritania , Arabic  Muritaniya , or  al-Jumhuriyah al-Islamiyah al-Muritaniyah , French  Mauritanie , or  République Islamique de Mauritanie  state in northwestern Africa. With an area of 398,000 square miles (1,030,700 square kilometres), it has the shape of an indented rectangle measuring about 930 miles (1,500 kilometres) from north to south and about 680 miles from east to west. It is bordered to the northwest by the Western Sahara (formerly Spanish Sahara), to the northeast by Algeria, to the east and southeast by Mali, and to the southwest

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