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Nouakchott

First-level unit, Mauritania: people, area, the units inside and neighbours, with risk values when released.

Page GRX-MRT-REdition Baseline Edition 2026Evidence close 2026-09-30ISO MRT / MRStatus UN member stateValues not yet publishedMethod v1.0.0-draft
1,508,004
people (GHSL 2025)
1,503 km²
area
30.4%
of Mauritania
9
units inside

01Ramani

Inside Nouakchott

The 9 ADM2 units of Nouakchott.

FIG 1 · 9 units inside Nouakchott
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Units rise with people per km² · GHSL 2025 raster · terrain · ADM1 ADM2Risk values when released
Lowest fifthLow fifthMiddle fifthHigh fifthHighest fifthNo data
Column height and colour show people per km² by unit, in quantile fifths among the units shown (the key on the map gives the breaks); units with no people on the grid are grey, not the lowest class; the raster beneath is the GHSL 2025 population grid. Source observations, not index values. Choose a humanitarian figure from the list to colour and raise the units by it; each figure shows its source on the unit page. Select a unit to drill into the units inside it; the path above the map climbs back.
02Figures

People, area and density

Source observations from open grids summed inside the boundary; not index values.

Watu · GHSL 2025

1,508,004

30.4% of Mauritania.

Watu · WorldPop 2025

1,305,759

-13% against GHSL; the two grids differ in method.

Area

1,503 km²

1,003 people per km².

Code

MR-NO

Subdivision code as carried by the boundary source.

Ukanda wa pwani ulio chini

1,417,006

people on land at or below 10 m, 94.0% of the unit (GEBCO 2024 and GHSL 2025).

03Units

9 units inside Nouakchott

Each unit has its own page.

Boundary licences: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported · Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY 3.0 IGO)

Unit Code People (GHSL) People (WorldPop) Area km² Per km² Share Coast ≤ 10 m
Arafat – 93,063 85,026 16.74 5,559 5.5% 0
Dar Naim – 322,225 149,548 23.77 13,556 19.1% 310,853
El Mina – 552,014 339,062 70.21 7,862 32.8% 155,889
Ksar – 337,521 157,869 35.23 9,580 20.1% 702,104
Riyadh – 66,371 114,118 54.85 1,210 3.9% 65,070
Sebkha – 136,672 66,352 23.08 5,922 8.1% 77,716
Tevragh Zein – 69,593 57,591 64.08 1,086 4.1% 40,668
Teyarett – 1,607 36,860 24.05 67 0.1% 1,519
Toujounine – 104,233 149,591 47.64 2,188 6.2% 92,788
04Exposure

Open exposure layers

Count of H3 resolution-3 cells whose centre falls in the unit and that carry each Natural Earth layer.

Urban areas
None at this resolution
Bandari
None at this resolution
Viwanja vya ndege
None at this resolution
Major roads
None at this resolution
Reli
None at this resolution
Rivers and lakes
None at this resolution
05Hatari

Risk values

Values when released. Subnational risk values for Nouakchott publish with the edition from The Global Risks Index. Until then, run a scenario on open data for Mauritania.
06Neighbours

Neighbouring units

07Vyanzo

Sources, credits and licences

ADM1 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen MRT ADM1, source: Princeton University Library, licence: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (share-alike: this boundary layer is offered under the same licence) · source · represents 2015. Offered under the same licence (Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported), kept as its own layer and not merged into other data.
ADM2 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen MRT ADM2, source: World Food Programme, OCHA ROWCA, licence: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY 3.0 IGO) · source · represents 2020
Basemap
OpenFreeMap © OpenMapTiles (CC BY 4.0) · data © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL 1.0). Vector tiles requested by the reader’s browser, unmodified; the map falls back to plain land and sea when the host does not answer.
Terrain
Terrain Tiles (Mapzen, AWS Open Data), compiled from SRTM and other public elevation sources (NASA, USGS, ETOPO1, GMTED, EU-DEM under the Copernicus programme, Geoscience Australia, Kartverket, INEGI, LINZ, data.gov.uk). Display relief, not survey data.
People
GHSL 2025 population grid, European Commission Joint Research Centre (CC BY 4.0), shown at 0.05° and summed per unit; WorldPop 2025 (CC BY 4.0) as a second estimate. Units smaller than a grid cell take the density of the cell under them.
Nchi
Natural Earth (public domain).
Elevation
GEBCO Compilation Group (2024) GEBCO 2024 Grid (public domain), reduced to 0.05°: the share of each cell’s land at or below 10 m, weighted by GHSL 2025 people for the low coastal zone.
Position
Boundaries are shown for location only and take no position on any boundary, name or status.