Mauritania

Mauritania

Mauritania ranks 160th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Republic of the Congo, Burundi, and Liberia. Memorable people born in present day Mauritania include Moktar Ould Daddah, Mohamed Ould Ghazouani, and Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi. Memorable people who died in Mauritania include Abu Bakr ibn Umar, Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi, and Fabrizio Meoni. Mauritania has been the birth place of many politicians, and soccer players and the death place of many politicians, and military personnels.

Mauritania, formally the Islamic Republic of Mauritania, is a sovereign country in Northwest Africa. It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the west, Western Sahara to the north and northwest, Algeria to the northeast, Mali to the east and southeast, and Senegal to the southwest. By land area Mauritania is the 11th-largest country in Africa and 28th-largest in the world; 90% of its territory is in the Sahara. Most of its population of some 4.3 million lives in the temperate south of the country, with roughly a third concentrated in the capital and largest city, Nouakchott, on the Atlantic coast. Read more on Wikipedia