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    Slavery has been called "deeply rooted" in the structure of the northwest African country of Mauritania and estimated to be "closely tied" to the ethnic...
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    Mauritania, officially the Islamic Republic of Mauritania (Arabic: الجمهورية الإسلامية الموريتانية, al-Jumhūrīyah al-Islāmīyah al-Mūrītānīyah), is a sovereign...
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    droughts in the 1970s and 1980s. Mauritania has extensive deposits of iron ore, which account for almost 50% of total exports. The decline in world demand...
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    capital and largest city of Mauritania. Located in the southwestern part of the country, it is one of the largest cities in the Sahara. The city also serves...
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    The Mauritania Railway is the national railway of Mauritania. Construction of the line began in 1960, with its opening in 1963. It consists of a single...
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    Mauritania, a country in the Western Region of the continent of Africa, is generally flat, its 1,030,700 square kilometres forming vast, arid plains broken...
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  • The Mauritanian is a 2021 legal drama film based on the memoir of Mohamedou Ould Slahi, a Mauritanian man who was held from 2002 to 2016 without charge...
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    significant comeback in Mauritania after a military junta took over Mauritania in 2008. As of July 2016, the estimated population of Mauritania is 3,677,293 people...
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    The flag of Mauritania (Arabic: علم موريتانيا, French: Drapeau de la Mauritanie) is a green field containing a gold star and crescent, with two red stripes...
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    Mauritania competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, which was held from 5 to 21 August 2016. The country's participation at Rio...
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    circular geological feature in the Adrar Plateau of the Sahara. It is located near Ouadane in the Adrar Region of Mauritania. In the local dialect, rīšāt...
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  • The Mauritania national football team (Arabic: منتخب مُورِيتَانْيَا لِكُرَةِ الْقَدَم), nicknamed Al-Murabitun in the reference to Almoravid dynasty,...
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    has since played supporting roles in the films Snowden (2016), The Mauritanian (2021) and Ferrari (2023), and starred in Adrift (2018), The Last Letter from...
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  • The 2016–17 Ligue 1 Mauritania season was the 37th season of the premier football league in Mauritania. It began on 24 September 2016 and concluded on...
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    Nouakchott–Oumtounsy International Airport (category 2016 establishments in Mauritania)
    Nouakchott, the capital of Mauritania. It is located 25 kilometres (16 mi) north of the city. The airport opened in June 2016 as the replacement for Nouakchott...
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  • The Mauritania national futsal team is controlled by the Football Federation of the Islamic Republic of Mauritania, the governing body for futsal in Algeria...
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    Human rights in Mauritania are generally seen as poor according to international observers, including Freedom House, the United States Department of State...
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    by Age Group (Estimates 1.VII.2016) (Data refer to national projections.): Registration of vital events in Mauritania is incomplete. The Population Department...
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  • following are the telephone codes in Mauritania. xxxx xxxx: Calls within Mauritania +222 xxxx xxxx: Calls from outside Mauritania The NSN length is 8 digits...
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  • Mauritania's wildlife has two main influences as the country lies in two biogeographic realms. The north sits in the Palearctic which extends south from...
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  • ("fishermen") on the Atlantic coast. The territory of Mauritania was on the fringe of geographical knowledge of Libya in classical antiquity. Berber immigration took...
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  • Cannabis in Mauritania is illegal, but the country serves as a major transit point for Moroccan cannabis en route to Europe. In Mauritania, it is illegal...
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    The Armed Forces of Mauritania (Arabic: الجيش الوطني الموريتاني, romanized: al-Jaysh al-Waṭanī al-Mūrītānī, French: Armée Nationale Mauritanienne) is the...
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  • futsal team qualify for the AFCON 2024] (in French). Football Federation of the Islamic Republic of Mauritania. 31 January 2024. Retrieved 3 February 2024...
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  • Berbers in Mauritania are Mauritanian citizens of Berber descent or persons of Berber descent residing in Mauritania. Ethnic Berbers in Mauritania are believed...
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  • The 2016–17 Ligue 1 Mauritania season was the 36th season of the premier football league in Mauritania. It began on 19 September 2015 and concluded on...
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  • Islamic republic (category Political terminology in Pakistan)
    acceptance. The Islamic Republic of Mauritania is a country in the Maghreb region of western North Africa. Mauritania was declared an independent state...
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  • The mass media in Mauritania is undergoing a shift into a freer journalistic environment, while becoming increasingly open to private sector. The laws...
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  • original on 2019-03-17. Retrieved 2017-05-07. "San Marino National Debt 2016". countryeconomy.com. Archived from the original on 2019-01-15. Retrieved...
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  • Super D1 (redirect from Ligue 1 Mauritania)
    division of association football league system in Mauritania. It was created in 1976. Mauritanian Cup Mauritanian Super Cup FFRIM D1 Calendar RSSSF competition...
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