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Mauritania
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Size: Total area of 1,030,700 square kilometers
includes 400 square kilometers of water.
Topography: Generally flat with vast, arid plains
broken by occasional ridges and outcroppings. In center of
country, series of scarps facing southwest longitudinally bisect
plains; sandstone plateaus, some with isolated peaks, between
scarps. Northeast a vast region of dunes.
Climate: Desert climate across northern three-fourths
of country with diurnal extremes in temperatures and meager and
irregular rainfall. During rainy season (July to September),
average rainfall in far south 400 to 600 millimeters; in northern
two-thirds, 0 to 100 millimeters. Desert winds throughout year
cause frequent sandstorms.
Data as of June 1988
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