Nouakchott in District de Nouakchott with its 661,400 citizens is located in Mauritania and is the capital of this country.
Local time in Nouakchott is 12:49 PM (Wednesday). The local timezone is "Africa / Nouakchott" with an UTC/GMT offset of 0 hours.
Hassi Guendres, Tanit, Tamzakt, Portendick, Nimjad, Jreida, Ksar and Beila are places relativly close and might be worth to explore when in that area.
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Nouakchott: : "or" [alleged translation from Berber "The place of the winds"] Nawākšūṭ) is the capital and by far the largest city of Mauritania. It is the Sahara's largest city if one excludes marginal cases like Cairo (in the Nile River Delta) and the cities north of the Atlas Mountains on Africa's northern coast. The city is the administrative and economic centre of Mauritania. ...