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Mauritania Facts are small pieces of information which taken together, offer an overall view about the land and other related details. Mauritania Facts are more or less like fast facts that are used mostly by the foreign tourists to derive a handful of information about the country prior to visiting them during vacations.
Facts about Mauritania begin with the location of the country, having hundreds of kilometers of Atlantic seashores. The waters near the Atlantic coastline with rich reserves of marine fishes, are one of the most potential fishing grounds of the world. This also added to the growth and development of extensive travel and tourism activities on the land.
Nouakchott as the capital city of Mauritania is one of the newly constructed capitals in the world. The name Nouakchott, which literally means "place of the winds" has an important deep-water port in its vicinity. Desert regions surround the Mauritanian capital.
As far as the cultural activities and achievements of Mauritania are concerned, the ancient rock paintings in the country display images of different grazing animals like cattle and giraffes, inhabiting the land in the past.
Mauritania is one of the very few countries in the world where people had traditions of leading life of nomads, yet played significant roles in administering and running the country efficiently.
In 2004, swarms of locusts invaded the crop harvests in Mauritania and destroyed them completely. It was only after the arrival of food aids from the United Nations that the crisis got solved and the abrupt and severe shortage of rations was avoided.
Among diverse industrial activities in Mauritania, the country started producing offshore oil first in February 2006. In fact, oil was discovered on the land in 2001 only.
Mauritanian Fast Facts even reveal information which are rarely known to people, yet very interesting ones indeed.
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