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Biggest Cities in Mauritania on the Map

Welcome to Mauritania, the mysterious desert region spanning North and West Africa! Join every adventure blogger and his dog by trainhopping on the iron ore train through the desert, and visit Qalb ar-Rishat, or the Eye of the Sahara alongside ancient, sand-swept centres of Islamic learning at Chinguetti.

Can you spend enough time away from the camel markets and the delicious plates of couscous, in order to name the 20 largest cities in this edge of the Arab World?

Quiz by Jiaozira
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Last updated: May 25, 2023
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City
958 k
Nouakchott
118 k
Nouadhibou
50.2 k
Kiffa
45.5 k
Kaédi
44.6 k
Zouérat
33.5 k
Rosso
26.4 k
Sélibaby
25.1 k
Atar
22.7 k
Ayoun el Atrous
22.3 k
Guerou
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City
21.7 k
Néma
16.4 k
Boghé
15.5 k
Boutilimit
15.5 k
Aleg
14.1 k
Timbédra
12.8 k
Akjoujt
12.6 k
Tintane
12.4 k
Magta-Lahjar
11.2 k
Maghama
10.9 k
Tidjikdja
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Level 70
May 25, 2023
I used citypopulation.de as my source. I looked at a Wikipedia article first, but it was very misleading and showed only communes, which seemed to include very rural areas too. Not all of the map is desert, if you zoom in closely you can see the area surrounding the Senegal River :)