Mauritania
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Codes and identifiers
- ISO alpha-2
- MR
- ISO alpha-3
- MRT
- ISO numeric
- 478
- FIPS 10-4
- MR
- GeoNames ID
- 2378080
Key facts
- Capital
- Nouakchott
- Area
- 1,030,700 km²
- Population
- 4,403,319
- Currency
- Ouguiya (MRU)
- Calling code
- +222
- Top-level domain
- .mr
- Official languages
- ar-MR,fuc,snk,fr,mey,wo
Continent
- Name
- Africa
- Code
- AF
- In this dataset
- 58 countries
Location
- Latitude
- 20.25
- Longitude
- -10.5
- Min latitude
- 14.73439890600011
- Min longitude
- -17.0811748859999
- Max latitude
- 27.285415751000116
- Max longitude
- -4.821613117999902
Boundary
The API call behind this page
Request
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" \
"https://geosearch.dev/v1/countries/MR?fields=iso_code,iso3_code,name,capital,population,area_sq_km,currency_code,continent_code"Response
{
"data": {
"area_sq_km": 1030700,
"capital": "Nouakchott",
"continent_code": "AF",
"currency_code": "MRU",
"iso3_code": "MRT",
"iso_code": "MR",
"name": "Mauritania",
"population": 4403319
}
}Formatted for reading. The API returns the same JSON on one line.
Other endpoints for this country
/v1/countries/MR/regions/v1/cities?country=MR/v1/postal-codes?country=MR/v1/timezones?country=MR
Name in other languages
- Arabic
- موريتانيا
- Chinese
- 毛里塔尼亚
- English
- Mauritania
- French
- Mauritanie
- German
- Mauretanien
- Hindi
- मॉरिटानिया
- Italian
- Mauritania
- Japanese
- モーリタニア
- Korean
- 모리타니
- Portuguese
- Mauritânia
- Russian
- Мавритания
- Spanish
- Mauritania
- Total language variants
- 143
The API returns any of them with ?lang=.
Time zones
| IANA ID | UTC offset | DST offset |
|---|---|---|
| Africa/Nouakchott | UTC+00:00 | UTC+00:00 |
First-level administrative regions
- Nouakchott Sud
- Hodh ech Chargui
- Nouakchott Nord
- Assaba
- Gorgol
- Hodh el Gharbi
- Brakna
- Guidimaka
- Wilaya du Trarza
- Nouakchott Ouest
- Dakhlet Nouadhibou
- Tagant
- Tiris Zemmour
- Adrar
- Inchiri
15 of 15 shown, largest first
Largest cities
| City | Population |
|---|---|
| Nouakchott | 1,184,530 |
| Nouadhibou | 146,048 |
| Kiffa | 62,051 |
| Dar Naim | 61,089 |
| Néma | 60,000 |
| Mbera | 58,985 |
| Ksar | 57,758 |
| Kaédi | 56,283 |
| Zouérat | 55,183 |
| Tevragh Zeina | 48,093 |
Coverage in this dataset
- Cities
- 7,653
- First-level regions
- 15
- Postal codes
- 0
- Name languages
- 143
- Boundary polygon
- Yes
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