1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Mauritania
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01What the data says — and does not say
This page separates the checked GeoNames row for Nouakchott—1,184,530, Africa/Nouakchott, and source coordinates—from live travel claims. Those fields identify and compare the record; they do not prove current transport, accessibility, census totals, or a City Atlas Club visit.
Wikidata's localized description: capital of Mauritania.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Nouakchott is GeoNames ID 2377450. Its recorded administrative path is Mauritania, and GeoNames classifies the place as a capital of a political entity. Nouakchott occurs once as a primary city label in this atlas sample; the numeric ID remains the durable source key if names change. The city row itself was updated 2024-01-18; that date belongs to the source record, not to every transport or visitor detail in the real destination.
Within the fixed 1,206-record atlas, Nouakchott ranks 452 by recorded population. Inside the 1 selected Mauritania entries it ranks 1; inside the 243 entries in its broad region it ranks 93. Its 1,184,530 population value is 1.00 times the 1,184,530 median for the country cohort and 1.31 times the 902,588 regional median. Nouakchott is rank 1 among the 1 selected Mauritania entries, so a percentage band would overstate this small cohort. Nouakchott's recorded value stays within one quarter of the country-cohort median used here. These comparisons describe this selected dataset only; they are not current census rankings or official urban-area boundaries.
Nouakchott's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Touba at 358.608 km with 1,120,824 recorded people; Pikine at 398.83 km with 1,170,791 recorded people; Dakar at 408.292 km with 2,646,503 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 49.684 km. Compared with Touba, Nouakchott's recorded population is 1.06 times as large. Against Nouakchott, Touba follows Diourbel Region → Senegal in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the selected Senegal cohort rather than Mauritania, uses Africa/Dakar instead of Africa/Nouakchott, and carries populated place rather than capital of a political entity. Its recorded population is below Nouakchott's. Against Nouakchott, Pikine follows Dakar → Senegal in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the selected Senegal cohort rather than Mauritania, uses Africa/Dakar instead of Africa/Nouakchott, and carries populated place rather than capital of a political entity. Its recorded population is below Nouakchott's. Against Nouakchott, Dakar follows Dakar → Senegal in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the selected Senegal cohort rather than Mauritania, uses Africa/Dakar instead of Africa/Nouakchott, and carries the same capital of a political entity class. Its recorded population is above Nouakchott's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 1,147 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Nouakchott's nearest-coordinate gap belongs to the wider half of atlas distances. This pattern can reveal whether other catalog references are geographically close, but it cannot establish whether a border crossing is possible or practical, or whether rail, road, fare, or journey-time connections exist. Read as one record signature, GeoNames 2377450, the coordinate pair 18.0858 / 15.9785, country rank 1 of 1, and neighbor GeoNames 2244322 at 358.608 km bind Nouakchott to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Nouakchott's reference point is 18.0858° north and 15.9785° west. The IANA identifier Africa/Nouakchott is shared by 1 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLC is shared by 129 rows. Nouakchott's row carries neither a first- nor second-order administrative label in this source. Nouakchott's point falls in the lower-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Nouakchott's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Nouakchott, so the profile preserves that missing value instead of guessing terrain. Together these fields form a reproducible identity check for this page, not a claim about walkability, climate or accessibility.
03Nearby atlas references
Nouakchott's closest other entries in this atlas are Touba (358.608 km), Pikine (398.83 km), Dakar (408.292 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2024-01-18; the atlas checked the dataset 2026-08-04. Available Wikidata fields were verified in the same run.
GeoNames data: CC BY 4.0. Wikidata labels and descriptions: CC0 1.0.