There are 216 administrative communes of

Mauritania Mauritania (; ar, موريتانيا, ', french: Mauritanie; Berber: ''Agawej'' or ''Cengit''; Pulaar: ''Moritani''; Wolof: ''Gànnaar''; Soninke:), officially the Islamic Republic of Mauritania ( ar, الجمهورية الإسلامية ...

recognised by the

Government of Mauritania The first fully democratic Presidential election since 1960 occurred on 11 March 2007. The election was the final transfer from military to civilian rule following the military coup in 2005. This was the first time the president was selected by ...

Urban

Agricultural

* Adel Bagrou * Aere Mbar * Aghchorguitt * Ain Ehel Taya * Aioun * Ajar *

Aleg Aleg is the capital of the Brakna Region, Mauritania. It is located at . Background The town includes the village of 'Elb Jmel Brakna ( ar, ولاية البراكنة) is a region in south-west Mauritania. Its capital is Aleg. Other major c ...

* Amourj *

Aoueinat Zbel Aoueinat Zbel is a town and commune in the Hodh Ech Chargui Region of south-eastern Mauritania Mauritania (; ar, موريتانيا, ', french: Mauritanie; Berber: ''Agawej'' or ''Cengit''; Pulaar: ''Moritani''; Wolof: ''Gànnaar''; ...

Aoujeft Aoujeft or Oujeft ( ar, اوجفت) is a town and commune in the Adrar Region Adrar ( ar, ولاية أدرار) is a large administrative region in Mauritania, named for the Adrar Plateau. The capital is Atar. Other major towns include Choum ...

* Arr *

Atar Atar, Atash, or Azar ( ae, 𐬁𐬙𐬀𐬭, translit=ātar) is the Zoroastrian concept of holy fire, sometimes described in abstract terms as "burning and unburning fire" or "visible and invisible fire" (Mirza, 1987:389). It is considered to ...

* Azgueilem Tiyab * Bababe * Bagrou * Barkeol * Bassiknou * Bethet Meit *

Boghé Boghé (also Bogué) is a town and commune in the Brakna Region of southern Mauritania, located on the border with Senegal Senegal,; Wolof: ''Senegaal''; Pulaar: 𞤅𞤫𞤲𞤫𞤺𞤢𞥄𞤤𞤭 (Senegaali); Arabic: السنغال ''A ...

* Bokkol * Bou Lahrath * Bougadoum * Bouheida *

Bouhdida Bouhdida is a town and commune in the Brakna Region of southern Mauritania Mauritania (; ar, موريتانيا, ', french: Mauritanie; Berber: ''Agawej'' or ''Cengit''; Pulaar: ''Moritani''; Wolof: ''Gànnaar''; Soninke:), officially ...

Boulenoir Boulenoir, also spelled Boulenouar, is a town and commune in Mauritania, situated on the railway line from Nouadhibou Nouadhibou (; ar, نواذيبو, Nwādībū, Berber: Nwadibu, formerly in French: ) is the second largest city in Mauritani ...

* Bouly * Boumdeid *

Bousteila Bousteila ( ar, بوصطيلة) is a commune and town in Mauritania. It is located in the Timbedra department within the south-eastern region of Hodh Ech Chargui. Mauritania's southern border with Mali Mali (; ), officially the Republic o ...

* Boutilimitt * Cheggar * Chinguitti * Dafor * Daghveg * Dar El Barka * Dionaba * Djeol * Djiguenni * El Ghabra * El Ghaire * Fassala *

Foum Gleita Foum Gleita is a town and commune in Mauritania along the Gorgol River The Gorgol River is a river of southern Mauritania that is a tributary of the Sénégal River. The river is formed by the confluence of the Gorgol Noir (194 km in len ...

* Ghabou * Gouraye * Gueller * Guerou * Hamod *

Hassichegar Hassichegar is a town and commune in Mauritania Mauritania (; ar, موريتانيا, ', french: Mauritanie; Berber: ''Agawej'' or ''Cengit''; Pulaar: ''Moritani''; Wolof: ''Gànnaar''; Soninke:), officially the Islamic Republic of M ...

Jidr-El Mouhguen Jidr-El Mouhguen or Jedr El Moubghuen is a town and urban commune in the Trarza Region of south-western Mauritania Mauritania (; ar, موريتانيا, ', french: Mauritanie; Berber: ''Agawej'' or ''Cengit''; Pulaar: ''Moritani''; Wo ...

Kaédi Kaédi ( ar, كيهيدي) is the largest city and administrative center of the Gorgol Region of Southern Mauritania, located on the border with Senegal. It is approximately 435 km from Mauritania's capital, Nouakchott. Overview The city ...

* Kamour *

Kankossa Kankossa is a town and commune the Assaba region of Mauritania Mauritania (; ar, موريتانيا, ', french: Mauritanie; Berber: ''Agawej'' or ''Cengit''; Pulaar: ''Moritani''; Wolof: ''Gànnaar''; Soninke:), officially the Islamic ...

* Keur-Macene * Kobeni *

Koumbi Saleh Koumbi Saleh, sometimes Kumbi Saleh is the site of a ruined medieval town in south east Mauritania that may have been the capital of the Ghana Empire. From the ninth century, Arab authors mention the Ghana Empire in connection with the trans-S ...

* Lahraj * Legrane * Leouossy * Lexeiba *

Maghama Maghama is a town and commune in Mauritania Mauritania (; ar, موريتانيا, ', french: Mauritanie; Berber: ''Agawej'' or ''Cengit''; Pulaar: ''Moritani''; Wolof: ''Gànnaar''; Soninke:), officially the Islamic Republic of Mauri ...

* Magta-Lahjar *

Male Male (symbol: ♂) is the sex of an organism that produces the gamete (sex cell) known as sperm, which fuses with the larger female gamete, or ovum, in the process of fertilization. A male organism cannot reproduce sexually without access to ...

* Mbagne *

Mbalal Mbalal or M'Balel is a town and urban commune in the Trarza Region of south-western Mauritania Mauritania (; ar, موريتانيا, ', french: Mauritanie; Berber: ''Agawej'' or ''Cengit''; Pulaar: ''Moritani''; Wolof: ''Gànnaar''; ...

* Mbout *

Mederdra Mederdra is a small town and commune in south-west Mauritania, near the border of Senegal. In 2000 it had a population of 6,858. Transport It lies on the route of a proposed railway line to connect phosphate mines at Kaédi with the capital ...

* Monguel *

Moudjeria Moudjeria is a town and commune in the Tagant Region of southern-central Mauritania, founded in 1934 as an administrative post by the French.Moustapha Sidatt, « Introduction à l’Histoire du plateau du Tagant », In ''Conservación y desarrol ...

Nbeika Nbeika is a town and commune in Mauritania Mauritania (; ar, موريتانيا, ', french: Mauritanie; Berber: ''Agawej'' or ''Cengit''; Pulaar: ''Moritani''; Wolof: ''Gànnaar''; Soninke:), officially the Islamic Republic of Maurit ...

* Ndiago *

Néma Néma is a town in southeastern Mauritania, close to the border with Mali. It is located at around at the eastern end of the Aoukar. It is the capital of Hodh Ech Chargui Region and of the Néma Department. While the urban population of Nema ...

Niabina Niabina is a town and commune in the Brakna Region of southern Mauritania Mauritania (; ar, موريتانيا, ', french: Mauritanie; Berber: ''Agawej'' or ''Cengit''; Pulaar: ''Moritani''; Wolof: ''Gànnaar''; Soninke:), officially ...

* Noual *

Ouad Naga Ouad Naga is a town and urban commune in the Trarza Region of south-western Mauritania Mauritania (; ar, موريتانيا, ', french: Mauritanie; Berber: ''Agawej'' or ''Cengit''; Pulaar: ''Moritani''; Wolof: ''Gànnaar''; Soninke: ...

Ouadane , settlement_type = Commune and town , image_skyline = OuadaneOldTown1.jpg , imagesize = , image_caption = Old tower, Ouadane , image_flag = , im ...

Oualata , settlement_type = Communes of Mauritania, Commune and town , image_skyline = Oualata 03.jpg , imagesize = 300px , image_caption = View of the town looking in a southeas ...

* Oueid Jrid * Ould Yenge * Rdheidhi * Rkiz *

Sangrave Sangrave is a town and commune in the Brakna Region of southern Mauritania Mauritania (; ar, موريتانيا, ', french: Mauritanie; Berber: ''Agawej'' or ''Cengit''; Pulaar: ''Moritani''; Wolof: ''Gànnaar''; Soninke:), officiall ...

* Sélibaby * Soudoud *

Tachott Tachott is a town and commune in southern Mauritania. It is in the Sélibaby department in the Guidimaka Region Guidimaka ( ar, ولاية كيدي ماغة) is the southernmost region of Mauritania. Its capital is Sélibaby. The region bor ...

* Tamchekett * Tawaz * Tekane *

Tichit Tichit or Tichitt ( ber, Ticit, ar, تيشيت) is a partly abandoned village at the foot of the Tagant Plateau in central southern Mauritania that is known for its vernacular architecture. The main agriculture in Tichit is date farming, and the ...

Tidjikja Tidjikja () is the capital of the Tagant region of central Mauritania, lying on the Tagant plateau. Founded in 1680, it has a population of around 11,000 people. The town is known for its palm trees and its vernacular architecture. The town ...

* Tiguent * Timbedra * Timzinn *

Tintane Tintane (Arabic:طينطان) is a town and commune in Mauritania. It is located in the Hodh El Gharbi region of Mauritania, and is an important stop on the "Road of Hope", the largest and most important road in Mauritania, which links Nouakc ...

Touil Touil is a town and commune in Mauritania Mauritania (; ar, موريتانيا, ', french: Mauritanie; Berber: ''Agawej'' or ''Cengit''; Pulaar: ''Moritani''; Wolof: ''Gànnaar''; Soninke:), officially the Islamic Republic of Maurita ...

* Tufunde Cive * Wahatt * Woumpou

Industrial and commercial

* Arafat * Benichab *

Choum Choum ( ar, شوم) is a town in northern Mauritania, lying in the Adrar Region close to the border with Western Sahara. In the year 2000, Choum had a population of 2,735. History The town grew from its position on trans-Saharan trading rout ...

Dar-Naim Dar-Naim is a suburb of Nouakchott and urban commune in western Mauritania. It is the capital of Nouakchott-Nord Region Nouakchott-Nord ( ar, نواكشوط الشمالية) is a Regions of Mauritania, region in Mauritania. It comprises t ...

El Mina El-Mina or El Mina (Arabic: الميناء / ALA-LC: ''al-Mīnā’'', which means "the harbour"), is a coastal independent town in Tripoli, Northern Lebanon. El-Mina occupies the location of the old Phoenician city of Tripoli. It acts as the ha ...

Kiffa Kiffa () is a large town in the far south region of Mauritania, and the name of an administrative area within the local Assaba Region. Kiffa is located at , some from the coast and at the western end of the Aoukar sand sea of southern Mauritani ...

Ksar Ksar or qsar (Maghrebi Arabic: wiktionary:قصر, قصر ''qṣer'' or ڭصر ''gser'', plural ''qṣur''; Berber language, Berber: ⵉⴴⵔⵎ ''aghrem'' or ''ighrem'', plural: ''igherman''), plural ksars, qsars, ksour or qsour, is the Nor ...

Nouadhibou Nouadhibou (; ar, نواذيبو, Nwādībū, Berber: Nwadibu, formerly in French: ) is the second largest city in Mauritania and serves as a major commercial centre. The city itself has about 118,000 inhabitants expanding to over 140,000 in the l ...

Riyad Riyadh (, ar, الرياض, 'ar-Riyāḍ, lit.: 'The Gardens' Najdi pronunciation: ), formerly known as Hajr al-Yamamah, is the capital and largest city of Saudi Arabia. It is also the capital of the Riyadh Province and the centre of the R ...

Rosso Rosso is the major city of south-western Mauritania and capital of Trarza region. It is situated on the Senegal River at the head of the river zone allowing year-round navigation. The town is 204 km south of the capital Nouakchott. The Ar ...

* Sebkha *

Tevragh-Zeina Tevragh-Zeina is a suburb of Nouakchott and Communes of Mauritania, urban commune in western Mauritania. It is the capital of Nouakchott-Ouest Region and has a population of 48,093. The current mayor is Fatimetou Abdel Maleck, Oumama Abdou. The ...

Teyarett Teyarett ( ar, تيارت) is a suburb of Nouakchott , image_skyline = Nouakchott.jpg , image_caption = City view of Nouakchott , pushpin_map = Mauritania#Arab world#Africa , pushpin_relief ...

Toujouonine Toujouonine is a suburb of Nouakchott and Communes of Mauritania, urban commune in western Mauritania. It has a population of 56,064. References

Communes of Mauritania Nouakchott {{Mauritania-geo-stub ...

* Zoueratt

Rural

Agricultural

Agharghar Agharghar is a village and rural commune in Mauritania Mauritania (; ar, موريتانيا, ', french: Mauritanie; Berber: ''Agawej'' or ''Cengit''; Pulaar: ''Moritani''; Wolof: ''Gànnaar''; Soninke:), officially the Islamic Repu ...

Aghoratt Aghoratt is a village and rural commune in Mauritania Mauritania (; ar, موريتانيا, ', french: Mauritanie; Berber: ''Agawej'' or ''Cengit''; Pulaar: ''Moritani''; Wolof: ''Gànnaar''; Soninke:), officially the Islamic Repub ...

* Agoueinit * Ain Savra * Ain Varba * Ajoueir * Aouleiguatt * Aweintat I * Bagodine * Baidiyam * Bangou * Bareina *

Beileguet Litama Beileguet Litama is a village and rural commune in Mauritania Mauritania (; ar, موريتانيا, ', french: Mauritanie; Berber: ''Agawej'' or ''Cengit''; Pulaar: ''Moritani''; Wolof: ''Gànnaar''; Soninke:), officially the Islamic ...

* Benamane * Beribavatt * Blajmil * Boeir Tores *

Bouanze Bouanze is a village and rural commune in Mauritania Mauritania (; ar, موريتانيا, ', french: Mauritanie; Berber: ''Agawej'' or ''Cengit''; Pulaar: ''Moritani''; Wolof: ''Gànnaar''; Soninke:), officially the Islamic Republic ...

* Boubacar Ben Amer *

Boutalhaya Boutalhaya or Boutalhaye is a village and rural commune in the Trarza Region of south-western Mauritania Mauritania (; ar, موريتانيا, ', french: Mauritanie; Berber: ''Agawej'' or ''Cengit''; Pulaar: ''Moritani''; Wolof: ''Gàn ...

* Chelkhet Tiyad *

Daw Daw or DAW may refer to: People and language * Daw (given name) * Daw (surname) * Daw, an honorific used in Burmese name#Honorifics, Burmese names * Dâw people, an indigenous people of Brazil * Dâw language, a language of Brazil * Davaoeño lang ...

Devaa Devaa is a village and rural commune in Mauritania. Communes of Mauritania {{Mauritania-geo-stub ...

Dhar Dhar is a city located in Dhar district of the Malwa region in the state of Madhya Pradesh, India. The city is the administrative headquarters of the Dhar district. Before Indian independence from Great Britain, it was the capital of the Dhar ...

Diadibeny Gandega Diadibeny Gandega is a village and rural commune in Mauritania Mauritania (; ar, موريتانيا, ', french: Mauritanie; Berber: ''Agawej'' or ''Cengit''; Pulaar: ''Moritani''; Wolof: ''Gànnaar''; Soninke:), officially the Islami ...

* Dielwar * Dodol Cover *

Doueirara Doueirara is a village and rural commune in Mauritania Mauritania (; ar, موريتانيا, ', french: Mauritanie; Berber: ''Agawej'' or ''Cengit''; Pulaar: ''Moritani''; Wolof: ''Gànnaar''; Soninke:), officially the Islamic Republ ...

* Edbaye El Hejaj * Edebaye Ehl Guelay *

Egjert Egjert is a village and rural commune in Mauritania Mauritania (; ar, موريتانيا, ', french: Mauritanie; Berber: ''Agawej'' or ''Cengit''; Pulaar: ''Moritani''; Wolof: ''Gànnaar''; Soninke:), officially the Islamic Republic ...

* El Aria * El Khatt *

El Medah El Medah is a village and rural commune in central-western Mauritania Mauritania (; ar, موريتانيا, ', french: Mauritanie; Berber: ''Agawej'' or ''Cengit''; Pulaar: ''Moritani''; Wolof: ''Gànnaar''; Soninke:), officially the I ...

* El Megve * El Melgua *

El Mouyessar El Mouyessar is a village and rural commune in Mauritania Mauritania (; ar, موريتانيا, ', french: Mauritanie; Berber: ''Agawej'' or ''Cengit''; Pulaar: ''Moritani''; Wolof: ''Gànnaar''; Soninke:), officially the Islamic Rep ...

* El Verea * Elb Address * Feireni * Ganki * Gasra El Barka *

Ghlig Ehel Boye Ghlig Ehel Boye is a village and Communes of Mauritania, rural commune in the Hodh Ech Chargui Region of south-eastern Mauritania. In 2000 it had a population of 4564. References

Communes of Hodh Ech Chargui Region {{Mauritania-geo ...

* Gogui *

Guateidoume Guateidoume is a village and rural commune in Mauritania Mauritania (; ar, موريتانيا, ', french: Mauritanie; Berber: ''Agawej'' or ''Cengit''; Pulaar: ''Moritani''; Wolof: ''Gànnaar''; Soninke:), officially the Islamic Repu ...

* Hassi Abdallah *

Hassi Attilla Hassi Attilla is a village and rural commune in Mauritania Mauritania (; ar, موريتانيا, ', french: Mauritanie; Berber: ''Agawej'' or ''Cengit''; Pulaar: ''Moritani''; Wolof: ''Gànnaar''; Soninke:), officially the Islamic Re ...

* Hassi El Ahmed Bichna * Hassimhadi * Hsey Tine * Inal *

Jreif Jreif is a village and rural commune in the Hodh Ech Chargui Region of south-eastern Mauritania Mauritania (; ar, موريتانيا, ', french: Mauritanie; Berber: ''Agawej'' or ''Cengit''; Pulaar: ''Moritani''; Wolof: ''Gànnaar''; ...

* Kouroudel *

Ksar el Barka Ksar el Barka () are ruins in Mauritania. It was established in 1690 by the Kounta, who were from Ouadane. See also * Ksar Ksar or qsar (Maghrebi Arabic: wiktionary:قصر, قصر ''qṣer'' or ڭصر ''gser'', plural ''qṣur''; Berber l ...

* Laftah *

Lahrach Lahrach or Lahrache is a village and rural commune in Mauritania Mauritania (; ar, موريتانيا, ', french: Mauritanie; Berber: ''Agawej'' or ''Cengit''; Pulaar: ''Moritani''; Wolof: ''Gànnaar''; Soninke:), officially the Isla ...

Leghligue Leghligue is a village and rural commune in Mauritania Mauritania (; ar, موريتانيا, ', french: Mauritanie; Berber: ''Agawej'' or ''Cengit''; Pulaar: ''Moritani''; Wolof: ''Gànnaar''; Soninke:), officially the Islamic Republ ...

* Lehreijat * Lehseira *

Lekhcheb Lekhcheb is a village and rural commune in Mauritania Mauritania (; ar, موريتانيا, ', french: Mauritanie; Berber: ''Agawej'' or ''Cengit''; Pulaar: ''Moritani''; Wolof: ''Gànnaar''; Soninke:), officially the Islamic Republi ...

* Leweynatt * Lexeiba *

Maaden Maaden () is a village and rural commune in Mauritania Mauritania (; ar, موريتانيا, ', french: Mauritanie; Berber: ''Agawej'' or ''Cengit''; Pulaar: ''Moritani''; Wolof: ''Gànnaar''; Soninke:), officially the Islamic Republi ...

* Mabrouk I * Mabrouk II *

Megva El Megve is a village and rural commune in the Hodh Ech Chargui Region of south-eastern Mauritania Mauritania (; ar, موريتانيا, ', french: Mauritanie; Berber: ''Agawej'' or ''Cengit''; Pulaar: ''Moritani''; Wolof: ''Gànnaar' ...

* Melga * Melzem Teichett *

Modibougou Modibougou is a village and rural commune in Mauritania Mauritania (; ar, موريتانيا, ', french: Mauritanie; Berber: ''Agawej'' or ''Cengit''; Pulaar: ''Moritani''; Wolof: ''Gànnaar''; Soninke:), officially the Islamic Repub ...

* N' Savenni * Nebaghia *

Nere Walo Nere Walo is a village and rural commune in Mauritania Mauritania (; ar, موريتانيا, ', french: Mauritanie; Berber: ''Agawej'' or ''Cengit''; Pulaar: ''Moritani''; Wolof: ''Gànnaar''; Soninke:), officially the Islamic Republi ...

* Nouamleine * Nteichitt *

Ntrguent Ntrguent is a village and rural commune in Mauritania Mauritania (; ar, موريتانيا, ', french: Mauritanie; Berber: ''Agawej'' or ''Cengit''; Pulaar: ''Moritani''; Wolof: ''Gànnaar''; Soninke:), officially the Islamic Republi ...

* Ouad Amour * Ould Birem * Ouldmbouni *

Oum Avnadech Oum Avnadech is a village and rural commune in Mauritania Mauritania (; ar, موريتانيا, ', french: Mauritanie; Berber: ''Agawej'' or ''Cengit''; Pulaar: ''Moritani''; Wolof: ''Gànnaar''; Soninke:), officially the Islamic Rep ...

* Oum Lahyadh * Radhi * Sagne * Sani *

Sava The Sava (; , ; sr-cyr, Сава, hu, Száva) is a river in Central and Southeast Europe, a right-bank and the longest tributary of the Danube. It flows through Slovenia, Croatia and along its border with Bosnia and Herzegovina, and finally th ...

* Soufa * Taguilalett * Tarenguet Ehel Moul * Tektaka. * Tenaha * Tenhemad *

Tensigh Tensigh is a village and rural commune in Mauritania Mauritania (; ar, موريتانيا, ', french: Mauritanie; Berber: ''Agawej'' or ''Cengit''; Pulaar: ''Moritani''; Wolof: ''Gànnaar''; Soninke:), officially the Islamic Republic ...

* Tikobra * Tinghadej * Tmeimichatt *

Tokomadji Tokomadji is a village and rural commune in Mauritania. The village was first settled by an ancestor of the village named Baaba Séga. Nowadays it has a population of around 1000 people and lies on the Senegal River ,french: Fleuve Sénégal ...

Toutel Toutel is a village and rural commune in Mauritania, near the border of Senegal Senegal,; Wolof: ''Senegaal''; Pulaar: 𞤅𞤫𞤲𞤫𞤺𞤢𞥄𞤤𞤭 (Senegaali); Arabic: السنغال ''As-Sinighal'') officially the Republic of S ...

* Voulaniya * Vrea Litama *

Wali A wali (''wali'' ar, وَلِيّ, '; plural , '), the Arabic word which has been variously translated "master", "authority", "custodian", "protector", is most commonly used by Muslims to indicate an Islamic saint, otherwise referred to by the ...

Nouamghar Nouamghar (or Nouâmghâr) is a coastal village and rural commune in the Dakhlet Nouadhibou region of western Mauritania. The village is 150 kilometres north north-east of the capital Nouakchott and is located at the entrance to Cape Timiris. I ...

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