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Nouakchott

Capital of Mauritania

Watercolour of Nouakchott, Mauritania. The Atlantic desert capital, with Saudi Mosque and Grand National Mosque.
AI-generated artistic rendering. Painted from written research on the city's setting, architecture and materials — not from a photograph.
What guided this image
Landmarks
Saudi Mosque; Grand National Mosque; Port de Pêche; Atlantic Ocean; Saharan
Viewpoint
Favor an elevated coastal viewpoint looking from the dunes near the Port de Pêche toward the city center, showing the colorful wooden pirogues resting on the sand in the foreground, with the white minarets of the mosques rising above the horizontal skyline in the middle-ground, and the vast desert horizon fading softly into pale sky.
Palette
Green should be the predominant color, especially in the green belts of mesquite and acacia trees, coastal scrub, and the turquoise-green inshore waters of the Atlantic.
Guarded against
Not a generic Arab city or Middle Eastern metropolis
Population1,184,530Wikidata: 958,399
Coordinates18.09°N, 15.98°W
Elevation7 m
Area1,000 km²
Time zoneAfrica/NouakchottUTC+0
Solar noon13:04clock runs 1.1 h ahead of the sun

Through the Earth

Dig straight through the Earth from Nouakchott and you surface nearest to Wala, New Caledonia — 184 km from the exact antipodal point.

Nearest cities in the atlas

ToubaSN359 km
DakarSN409 km
BanjulGM520 km
BissauGW694 km
PraiaCV876 km
CamayenneGN982 km
ConakryGN983 km
BamakoML1,052 km

Twinned cities

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