Nouakchott
Mauritania’s capital city is one of the largest cities in the country. It was founded by Berbers over 300 years ago as a small fishing village.
Nouakchott is taken from the Berber Nawākšūṭ, which means “place of the winds”. As a modern capital city, construction of the area we know now began in 1958 when Mauritania was looking for capital city before independence in 1960.
