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Pages in category "Ethnic groups in Mauritania" The following 17 pages are in this category, out of 17 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B. Bafour;
According to the 2022 revision of the World Population Prospects [2] [3], the total population was 4,614,974 in 2021, compared to only 657 000 in 1950.The proportion of children below the age of 15 in 2010 was 39.9%, 57.4% was between 15 and 65 years of age, while 2.7% was 65 years or older.
Mauritania, [a] formally the Islamic Republic of Mauritania, [b] is a sovereign country in Northwest Africa. It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the west, Western Sahara to the north and northwest, Algeria to the northeast , Mali to the east and southeast , and Senegal to the southwest .
This is a list of sovereign states and dependent territories in the Caribbean. In a general sense, the Caribbean can be taken to mean all the nations in and around the Caribbean Sea that lie within an area that stretches from The Bahamas in the north to Guyana in the south, and Suriname in the east to Belize in the west in a general sense. This ...
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to Mauritania: Mauritania – sovereign country located in West Africa . [ 1 ] Mauritania is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean on the west, by Senegal on the southwest, by Mali on the east and southeast, by Algeria on the northeast, and by the Morocco-controlled Western Sahara ...
The Haratin form an ethnic group distinct from Arab and Tuareg populations, as well as from the contemporary ethnic groups of sub-Saharan Africa. [12] [15] [16] In Mauritania, however, where there are nearly 1.5 million Haratin, they have developed a separate sense of ethnic identity. [8]
The name Imraguen (Berber orthography: imragen) is a Berber word meaning "fishermen", or «people who fish while walking on the sea», [2] or «those who harvest life». [3] The Imraguen are believed to descend from the Bafour people [citation needed]. According to the Documentation of the human population of the territory, the Imraguen people ...
Berbers in Mauritania are Mauritanian citizens of Berber descent or persons of Berber descent residing in Mauritania. Ethnic Berbers in Mauritania are believed to number of 2,883,000 (2,768,000 [ 3 ] & 115,000 [ 4 ] ).