Mauritania country profile

Lead Author: Maggie Surface (other articles)
This article has been reviewed and approved by the following Topic Editor: Lakhdar Boukerrou (other articles)
Last Updated: August 26, 2008

Map of Mauritania. (Source: EIA)
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Map of Mauritania. (Source: EIA)

Banc d'Arguin NP, Mauritania (Photograph by © WWF-Canon/John E. Newby)
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Banc d'Arguin NP, Mauritania (Photograph by © WWF-Canon/John E. Newby)

  1. General overview
  2. Water in Mauritania
  3. Energy in Mauritania
  4. Human Development Index
  5. National parks and preserves:
    1. Banc d'Arguin National Park
  6. Ecoregions:
    1. Atlantic coastal desert
    2. North Saharan steppe and woodlands
    3. Sahara desert
    4. Saharan halophytics
    5. Sahelian Acacia savanna
    6. South Saharan steppe and woodlands
    7. West Saharan montane xeric woodlands

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Citation
Surface, Maggie (Lead Author); Lakhdar Boukerrou (Topic Editor). 2008. "Mauritania country profile." In: Encyclopedia of Earth. Eds. Cutler J. Cleveland (Washington, D.C.: Environmental Information Coalition, National Council for Science and the Environment). [First published in the Encyclopedia of Earth June 3, 2008; Last revised August 26, 2008; Retrieved November 21, 2009]. <http://www.eoearth.org/article/Mauritania_country_profile>
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