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Mauritania

Mauritania is one of the 193 UN member states, in Western Africa. UN Tourism publishes no arrivals figure for it, so Globestamp places its stamp by estimate: Prism, for 50,000 to 500,000 visitors a year.

Mauritania’s stamp in Globestamp
Prism · 50,000 to 500,000 visitors a year
Stamp finish
Prismplaced by estimate
Area
1,039,355 km² (401,297 sq mi)
Population
4.5 millionNatural Earth estimate
Regions
13in Globestamp’s regions layer
Airports
3with scheduled flights
World Heritage Sites
2on Globestamp’s list

Does Mauritania count as a country?

Yes. Mauritania is one of the 193 UN member states, so every common list counts it: the UN’s 193, Globestamp’s 250 and the Travelers’ Century Club’s 330.

ListCounts Mauritania?
UN member states (193)Yes, a member
Globestamp’s countries and territories (250)Yes
Travelers’ Century Club (330)Yes, as Mauritania
European UnionNo
Schengen areaNo

The Mauritania stamp

Every country in Globestamp has its own stamp, drawn after a real entry stamp. Its finish shows how few travelers get there. Mauritania’s is Prism: the full spectrum with glints, the finish for places with 50,000 to 500,000 visitors a year. UN Tourism has no figure for Mauritania, so its finish is placed by hand from what is known of its visitors. See every stamp on the stamp wall, or the rarest on the least-visited countries.

What counts as a visit to Mauritania

The common rule among travelers is that you set foot there: an airport layover usually doesn’t count, and a port where you went ashore does. Globestamp counts Mauritania when one of your photos was taken on its ground, or just off its coast; a photo taken from a plane never counts. Photos only at an airport make a transit stamp in lighter ink, counted only if you count layovers. Read more in how to count the countries you’ve visited.

Places in Mauritania you can collect

Under the country itself, Globestamp keeps layers of places on your globe, and a photo taken at one ticks it. These are the ones it knows in Mauritania, from 2 World Heritage Sites.

World Heritage Sites 2

Banc d'Arguin National Park (1989) · Ancient Ksour of Ouadane, Chinguetti, Tichitt and Oualata (1996). On the bucket list →

National parks 1

Banc d'Arguin National Park. On the bucket list →

Largest cities

CityPeople (urban area)
Nouakchott742,144
Saint-Louis220,792
Nema200,000
Nouadhibou86,738
Kiffa73,930
Zouirat56,345

Airports

Mauritania has 3 airports with scheduled flights, 2 of them large. Each is a dot on Globestamp’s airports layer, and every flight you log adds to how far you’ve flown (try the flight distance calculator).

13 regions to fill in

Globestamp goes deeper than countries: its regions layer splits Mauritania into 13 regions (Natural Earth’s first-level divisions), and each one fills in when a photo was taken there.

All 13

Adrar · Assaba · Brakna · Dakhlet Nouadhibou · Gorgol · Guidimaka · Hodh Ech Chargui · Hodh El Gharbi · Inchiri · Nouakchott · Tagant · Tiris Zemmour · Trarza

Questions people ask

Is Mauritania a country?

Yes. Mauritania is one of the 193 UN member states, so every common list counts it: the UN’s 193, Globestamp’s 250 and the Travelers’ Century Club’s 330.

How many tourists visit Mauritania?

UN Tourism, the usual source, publishes no arrivals figure for Mauritania. Globestamp places its stamp by estimate, as Prism: 50,000 to 500,000 visitors a year.

How rare is a Mauritania stamp in Globestamp?

It is printed in Prism, the finish for places with 50,000 to 500,000 visitors a year. The fewer travelers a place receives, the rarer its finish, from plain Ink to Mythic.

Does Mauritania count for the Travelers’ Century Club?

Yes. The Travelers’ Century Club counts it as “Mauritania”, one of its 330 destinations.

Places as rare as Mauritania

Near Mauritania

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