Subdivisions of Mauritania

Main articles: Regions of Mauritania and Departments of Mauritania

Mauritania

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Mauritania is divided into 12 regions (régions) called wilayah and one capital district in Nouakchott, which in turn are subdivided into 44 departments (moughataa).

There are 216 communes of Mauritania.

The regions and capital district (in alphabetical order) and their capitals are:

Region	Capital
Adrar	Atar
Assaba	Kifa
Brakna	Aleg
Dakhlet Nouadhibou	Nouadhibou
Gorgol	Kaédi
Guidimaka	Sélibaby
Hodh Ech Chargui	Néma
Hodh El Gharbi	Ayoun el Atrous
Inchiri	Akjoujt
Nouakchott (capital district)
Tagant	Tidjikdja
Tiris Zemmour	F'dérik
Trarza	Rosso

Subdivisions of Africa

Sovereign states	Algeria Angola Benin Botswana Burkina Faso Burundi Cameroon Cape Verde Central African Republic Chad Comoros Democratic Republic of the Congo Republic of the Congo Djibouti Egypt Equatorial Guinea Eritrea Ethiopia Gabon The Gambia Ghana Guinea Guinea-Bissau Ivory Coast (Côte d'Ivoire) Kenya Lesotho Liberia Libya Madagascar Malawi Mali Mauritania Mauritius Morocco Mozambique Namibia Niger Nigeria Rwanda São Tomé and Príncipe Senegal Seychelles Sierra Leone Somalia South Africa South Sudan Sudan Swaziland Tanzania Togo Tunisia Uganda Zambia Zimbabwe

States with limited recognition	Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic Somaliland

Dependencies and other territories	Canary Islands / Ceuta / Melilla / Plazas de soberanía (Spain) Madeira (Portugal) Mayotte / Réunion (France) Saint Helena / Ascension Island / Tristan da Cunha (United Kingdom) Western Sahara

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