Mauritania lies on the north-west coast of Africa, bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the west, by Senegal on the south-west, Mali on the south-east and east, Algeria on the north-east, and the Western Sahara province of Morocco on the north-west.
Area: 1 030 700 km2
Population: 4,301,018n
Capital: Nouakchott
Currency: Ouguiya
GDP: $17.421 billion (2017)