Mauritania

Mauritania - the state in the Western Africa, from the West flowed about by Atlantic ocean. The square - 1030,7  thousand sq. km. Till 1960 Mauritania was possession of France. An official language - Arabian.

The country Bulk is occupied sandy and stony deserts Western Sahara. In a landform extensive vile plains and low plateaus (732  predominate; m above sea level). The unique river with a constant waterway - boundary Senegal.

The Climate tropical deserted, monthly average temperatures fluctuate from 16-20  °C in January to 30-32  °C in July. Deposits on bolshej country parts falls out less 100  mm a year, only in the south - in sahelskoj to region - 200-400  mm. The conforming character has also vegetation: rare bushes and separate arbours in the south, and in other terrain the rather poor potherb appears only on a short time after rains. From large animals there are antelopes oriks and addaks, mountain goats, among small predators - a jackal, a fox fenek. It is a lot of snakes and lizards, and also hexapods and friction sockets.

The Modern population of Mauritania (nearby 2,2  million persons) it is ethnically impure: three quarters are compounded by so-called moors - Arabs and berbery, occupied mainly cattle breeding, the negro-African people - tukuler, fulbe, volof and others, conducting in the core a nonmigratory mode of life in the south predominate. Islam is intoned by the state religion. Mauritania, unlike some other countries of Northern and Western Africa, did not worry blossoming of a medieval civilisation, but residential locations SHingetti which have saved from that epoch, Tishit, Valata bear to their former prosperity, thin art of a decor of a front of buildings. In library Shingetti are stored 2  thousand manuscripts of the Arabian scientists. Musical, singing, dancing arts of the people of Mauritania are diverse. Capital and the largest city of the country - Nouakchott builted only 30-40  years back. Second on sizes and significance a city - port of Nouadhibou.