Introduction
retrived from http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-13881985
Mauritania officially known as the Islamic Republic of Mauritania is a West African country comprised between the 15th and the 27th degree of north latitude and the 5th and 7th degree of west longitude. It occupies a territory of about 1.100.000km2. Largely opened to the Atlantic Ocean in the west, it is separated from Senegal, in the southwest, by the inferior bank of the Senegal River. The rest of its frontier is purely conventional; as it is implied in its rectilinear lay out: Mali is situated at the southeast and the east, Algeria at the northeast, and Western Sahara in the Northeast on about 1561klm of this vast country). The name ‘Mauritania’, once used as the name of the Roman colonies of North Africa (Mauretania), was reintroduced by the colonial administration to cut this western part of the Saharo-Sahelian zone of its Arabic roots. This area was called in Arabic literature bilad Shinghitt "country of Shinghitt” , trab Albidhan ‘land of the Whites’ (Taine Cheikh 1990), and Bilàd Assayba ‘country of anarchy’. Populated of almost 3.500.000 inhabitants in 2015, Mauritania has a density of 2, 43 inhabitants to the km ² with, however, considerable regional disparities going from 7, 39 in Wilaya of South-east and less in Saharan Wilaya (3,8) with more than 19,37 in certain Wilaya of the South. Hyphen between the Black Africa and White Africa, Mauritania played a big role in the propagation of Islam in Black Africa. It is today a privileged place of cohabitation complementary to Arabic and Black-African (United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization UNESCO, 2000).
A short video introducing the country of Mauritania.