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Official Name of Mauritania: Islamic Republic of Mauritania
Government type in Mauritania: republic
Capital of Mauritania: Nouakchott
Primary Language in Mauritania: Hassaniya Arabic, Wolof
Currency in Mauritania: ouguiya

Independent from France in 1960, Mauritania annexed the southern third of the former Spanish Sahara (now Western Sahara) in 1976, but relinquished it after three years of raids by the Polisario guerrilla front seeking independence for the territory. Opposition parties were legalized and a new constitution approved in 1991. Two multiparty presidential elections since then were widely seen as flawed, but October 2001 legislative and municipal elections were generally free and open. Mauritania remains, in reality, a one-party state. The country continues to experience ethnic tensions between its black minority population and the dominant Maur (Arab-Berber) populace. Most of the population concentrated in the cities of Nouakchott and Nouadhibou and along the Senegal River in the southern part of the country.

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» Aioun el Atrouss
» Atar
» Kaedi
» Kiffa
» Nema
» Nouadhibou
» Nouakchott
» Selibaby
» Tidjikja
» Zouerate

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