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A camel in the desert in front of sand dunes in Adrar, Mauritania
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Mauritania

Mauritania is a sparsely populated nation of 4 million people that borders Algeria, Mali, Morocco and Senegal in Western Africa's Sahel region. It achieved independence from France in 1960.

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