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Nouakchott (inhabited place) |
Coordinates: |
| Lat: 18 04 58 N degrees minutes |
Lat: 18.0831 decimal degrees |
| Long: 015 58 51 W degrees minutes |
Long: -15.9819 decimal degrees |
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Note: Centrally situated on the chief north-south highway which connects the more inhabited, cultivated south with the mineral-rich but scantly populated north; important refugee center during the 1970s droughts in the Sahara; port exports petroleum & copper. |
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| Nouakchott (preferred,C,V)
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| Anuwākshūţ (C,V)
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| Nouakchat (C,V)
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| Nouakchot (C,V)
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| Nuwākshūţ (C,V)
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| انواكشوط (C,V,Arabic,U)
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| نواكشوط (C,V,Arabic,U)
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| inhabited place (preferred, C) |
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| city (C) |
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| national capital (C) |
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since 1957 |
| port (C) |
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| capital of .... |
Mauritania .......... (nation) |
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(World, Africa) [1000176] |
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