The city of Nouadhibou is the second-largest settlement in Mauritania, but due to limited employment, it is also somewhat poor. This economic hardship, as is often the case, led to widespread ...

Here are the countries where a huge share of the population lives in the largest city: 30. Nouakchott, Mauritania, had a population of 1,259,000, which was 27.8% of the country's population of ...

The Mauritania Railway, ... Mauritania, where 22,000 tons of iron ore are mined daily and transported across the searing desert to the port city of Nouadhibou, on Africa’s Atlantic coast.