Africa · Western Africa
Mauritania
3 cities in the atlas · 3 airports with scheduled flights
Banc d'Arguin National Park · Photo: Kokopelado · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
- Capital
- Nouakchott
- Currency
- MRU
- Mauritanian Ouguiya
- Local time
- Greenwich Mean TimeUTC+00:00
- Calling code
- +222
- Driving
- On the right
- Plugs
- Type C
Facts
Mauritania in figures
From named datasets: GeoNames, CLDR, the World Bank and Wikidata. Each is credited at the foot of the page.
- Capital
- Nouakchott
- Currency
- Mauritanian Ouguiya MRUToday's indicative rate: MRU 10 ≈ USD 0.248Indicative, from the day's reference rates; a bank or card will charge its own.
- Languages
- Official: ArabicSpoken: Arabic, Fulah, Soninke, French and Wolof
- Time zones
- Greenwich Mean TimeUTC+00:00
- Calling code
- +222
- Driving
- On the right
- Plugs
- Type C220 V · 50 HzAs recorded in Wikidata.
- Emergency numbers
- 101ambulance117police118fireAs recorded in Wikidata. Check them locally on arrival; they are not the only safety information you need.
- Population
- 5,315,065 (2025, World Bank)
- Area
- 1,030,700 km²
- Internet domain
- .mr
- Land borders
- AlgeriaMaliSenegalWestern Sahara
When to go
Climate across Mauritania
On these averages, Nouakchott has a mean high between 18°C and 32°C and under 150 mm of rain in January to December.
- Mild to warm and dry
- Mild to warm, humid or showery
- Hot
- Cool
- Wet
- Cold
On the map
Where Mauritania is
The dashed box is the extent of the country's main landmass, from Natural Earth; outlying islands fall outside it. The dots are the cities with pages of their own.
Land borders
Cities
Cities in Mauritania
All 3 places in the atlas: capitals, cities of 300,000 people or more, the places its airports serve, and the ones we have written guides to.
Smaller places with an airport · 2
Airports
Airports in Mauritania
Airports with scheduled flights and an IATA code, from OurAirports.
Large airports
- NKCNouakchott–Oumtounsy International AirportNouakchott
- NDBNouadhibou International AirportNouadhibou
Medium airports · 1
Photographs
Mauritania in pictures
Photographs from Wikimedia Commons, each credited to its author, with its licence.
NouakchottPhoto: Laminesall96 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Visas and entry
Visas and entry
Entry rules depend on your passport and change often, so this page does not state them. Check the destination government's official immigration website, or ask our visa desk to check your case for you.
Plan it
Plan a trip to Mauritania
Tell us where in Mauritania, when and who is travelling, and a person puts the flights, the stays and the rest into one quote.