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Mauritania
Quick Facts
- Capital
- Nouakchott
- Continent
- Africa
- Population
- ~5 million
- Language(s)
- Arabic
- Currency
- Mauritanian ouguiya
Did you know?
Mauritania was the last country in the world to formally abolish slavery, not doing so until 1981, and it was only criminalised in 2007.