Mauritanian may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to

Mauritania Mauritania, officially the Islamic Republic of Mauritania, is a sovereign country in Maghreb, Northwest Africa. It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the west, Western Sahara to Mauritania–Western Sahara border, the north and northwest, ...

, a country in northwest Africa * A person from Mauritania, or of Mauritanian descent. For information about the Mauritanian people, see

Demographics of Mauritania demography, Demographic features of the population of Mauritania () include population density, Ethnic group, ethnicity, Education in Mauritania, education level, Health in Mauritania, health of the populace, Economy of Mauritania, economic status ...

. * Note that there is no language called "Mauritanian". For Mauritania's official language, see

Arabic Arabic (, , or , ) is a Central Semitic languages, Central Semitic language of the Afroasiatic languages, Afroasiatic language family spoken primarily in the Arab world. The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) assigns lang ...

. * For the history of Mauritania, see

History of Mauritania The original inhabitants of Mauritania were the Bafour, presumably a Mande ethnic group, connected to the contemporary Arabized minor social group of '' Imraguen'' ("fishermen") on the Atlantic coast. The territory of Mauritania was on the fr ...

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The Mauritanian ''The Mauritanian'' is a 2021 legal drama film based on the memoir of Mohamedou Ould Slahi, a Mauritanian man who was held from 2002 to 2016 without charge in the Guantanamo Bay detention camp, a United States military prison. The film was dire ...

'', 2021 film directed by Kevin Macdonald

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