Guides and Directories

BBC News - Country Profile: Mauritania - Provides overview, key facts and events, timelines and leader profiles along with current news.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/country_profiles/791083.stm

UK Foreign Office - Country Profiles: Mauritania - Overview of country's geography, history, politics, economy, international relations, travel and current affairs.
http://www.fco.gov.uk/en/about-the-fco/country-profiles/middle-east-north-africa/mauritania

Columbia University Libraries - African Studies: Mauritania - Directory of categorized and annotated links.
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/mideast/cuvlm/Mauritania.html

Stanford University - Africa South of the Sahara: Mauritania - Annotated directory of links to web resources.
http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/ssrg/africa/mauritan.html

US Department of State - Mauritania - Country portal offers a map and links to Background Notes, USAID page, the US embassy and the current ambassador, press releases, fact sheets, annual Human Rights Reports and other major reports including Country and Industry Market Reports.
http://www.state.gov/p/af/ci/mr/

NationMaster - Mauritania - Profile includes information for various aspects of the country, with a special emphasis on statistics and rankings.
http://www.nationmaster.com/country/mr-mauritania

al-Bab - Mauritania - Offers links to resources about Mauritania including the media and news, travel, maps, politics and government, people, economy and environment.
http://www.al-bab.com/arab/countries/mauritania.htm

US Library of Congress - Country Study: Mauritania - June 1988 country profile provides information about its historical setting, society and environment, economy, government and politics, and national security.
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/mrtoc.html

University of Pennsylvania - African Studies Center: Mauritania - Annotated directory of links to resources.
http://www.africa.upenn.edu/Country_Specific/Mauritania.html

MSN Encarta - Mauritania - Online encyclopedia article, with country profile, history and links to related articles.
http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761571203/Mauritania.html

US Library of Congress - Portals to the World: Mauritania - Annotated directory of selected online resources concerning the country's business, culture, education, embassies, geography, government, politics, law, health, history, media, recreation, travel, religion, philosophy, science, and society.
http://www.loc.gov/rr/international/amed/mauritania/mauritania.html

Wikipedia - Mauritania - Hyperlinked encyclopedia article covers the history, government and politics, geography, economy, demographics, language and culture of the West African country.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mauritania

Arabji.com - Mauritania - Web directory and yellow pages.
http://www.arabji.com/Mauritania/

CIA - The World Factbook: Mauritania - Features map and brief descriptions of the geography, people, government, economy, communications, transportation, military and transnational issues.
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/mr.html

Encyclopedia of the Nations - Mauritania - Provides information about the country's geography, people, government, economy and tourism. From Thomson Gale.
http://www.nationsencyclopedia.com/Africa/Mauritania.html

The Index on Africa - Mauritania - Extensive set of categorized and annotated links to web resources from the Norwegian Council for Africa (NCA).
http://www.afrika.no/index/Countries/Mauritania/

Encyclopaedia Mauritania - Information on geography, history, language, arts, and wildlife.
http://www.encyclopedia.mu/

USAfrica: Mauritania - General information about Mauritania.
http://us-africa.tripod.com/mauritania.html

University of Texas - MENIC: Mauritania - Links to Mauritanean web resources from the Middle East Network Information Center.
http://menic.utexas.edu/Countries_and_Regions/Mauritania/

Hejlah - The Country and People of Mauritania - Provides general information from a Columbia University source along with a directory of categorised web links.
http://www.hejleh.com/countries/mauritania.html