What the records say
- When
- 1980
- Kind
- Territorial change
- Where
- Mauritania
- Coordinates
- 19.59° N, 9.74° W
- Process
- cession
- Type
- Cession (part yielded to other entity)
- Pop
- 100000
- Area km2
- 88667
- Gaining
- Morocco
Placed at the country: the source names no closer place.
Mauritania
Country in West Africa
Mauritania, officially the Islamic Republic of Mauritania, is a country in the Maghreb region of West 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.
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The source
- COW Territorial Change v6Correlates of War ProjectCorrelates of War: free use with citation