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Pazzanita (2008). Historical Dictionary of Mauritania (3rd\u00a0ed.). United States: Scarecrow Press. ISBN\u00a0978-0-8108-6265-4.^ a b c “Mauritania: Directory”. Africa South of the Sahara 2003. Regional Surveys of the World. Europa Publications. 2003. ISBN\u00a09781857431315. ISSN\u00a00065-3896.^ “Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 and more inhabitants”. Demographic Yearbook 1965. New York: Statistical Office of the United Nations. 1966. pp.\u00a0140\u2013161.^ a b c d John Darnton (23 November 1976), “Thriving Capital Filling the Void In Mauritania”, New York Times^ “Winds in Mauritania Kill 4”, New York Times, 2 June 1991^ “Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 or more inhabitants”. Demographic Yearbook 2005. United Nations Statistics Division.^ “Mauritania profile: Timeline”. BBC News. Retrieved 17 September 2017.^ “Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 or more inhabitants”. Demographic Yearbook 2015. United Nations Statistics Division. 2016.^ Al Qaeda suspects killed in Mauritania car blast, Reuters, 2 February 2011^ “Table 8 – Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 or more inhabitants”, Demographic Yearbook \u2013 2018, United Nations^ “Mauritania’s Nouackchott hit by protest over Koran”, BBC News, 3 March 2014This article incorporates information from the French Wikipedia.Bibliography[edit]in EnglishSerge Theunynck (1983),  Brian Brace Taylor (ed.), “A Sterilizing Capital: Nouakchott”, Reading the Contemporary African City, Singapore \u2013 via ArchNet Paul Tiyambe Zeleza; Dickson Eyoh, eds. (2003). “Nouakchott, Mauritania”. Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century African History. Routledge. ISBN\u00a00415234794.Nicola Pratt (2008), “Nouakchott”,  in Bruce E. Stanley; Michael R.T. Dumper (eds.), Cities of the Middle East and North Africa, Santa Barbara, USA: ABC-CLIO, ISBN\u00a09781576079195Christian Vium (11 February 2016), “Eye of the drought: high and dry in the Sahara \u2013 in pictures”, Guardian, UK (Photos of Nouakchott)“‘The best solution? Move the Mauritanian capital’: water on the rise in Nouakchott”, Guardian, UK, 25 July 2016in FrenchExternal links[edit]Wikimedia Commons has media related to Nouakchott.Satellite view of Nouakchott, 2001Nouakchott and sand dunes, circa 2002"},{"@context":"http:\/\/schema.org\/","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https:\/\/wiki.edu.vn\/en\/wiki40\/#breadcrumbitem","name":"Enzyklop\u00e4die"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https:\/\/wiki.edu.vn\/en\/wiki40\/timeline-of-nouakchott-wikipedia\/#breadcrumbitem","name":"Timeline of Nouakchott – Wikipedia"}}]}]