Nouadhibou, Dakhlet Nouadhibou Region, Mauritania

Transport : Road : Rail : Air | Ship graveyard | Economy

🇲🇷 Nouadhibou is the second largest city in Mauritania and serves as a major commercial centre. It is situated on a 65-kilometre peninsula or headland called Ras Nouadhibou, Cap Blanc, or Cabo Blanco, of which the western side has the Moroccan city of La Güera. Nouadhibou is consequently located merely a couple of km from the border between Mauritania and Morocco.

The city consists of four major areas: the city centre, including the airport; Numerowatt to the north; Cansado, the main residential area, to the south; and a dormitory town for the workers of the harbour facilities which are located a few km south of the city, near the tip of the Ras Nouadhibou peninsula, at Port Minéralier.

Attractions in Nouadibou include the Table Remarquable, several markets, a ships' graveyard and Mediterranean monk seals.

The port of Nouadhibou is the final resting place of over 300 ships and hence the world’s largest ship graveyard. Unlike the arrival en masse of ships at Mallows Bay, here the number of craft has built up over time, as corrupt officials accepted bribes from boat owners to allow them to dump their vessels in the area.

Nouadhibou has always been an important transit point for international transport. In the beginning of the 20th century, it was a stopover for the Latécoère air-transport network for mail and passengers for western Africa and overseas colonies like Martinique. Antoine de Saint-Exupery spent much time there as a pilot and as writer.

Near the harbour is the terminus of Mauritania's only railway line, which mainly brings iron ore from the mining areas near Fdérik and Zouérat, which are located up to 704 km (437 mi) inland.

Processing iron ore forms the largest industry in Nouadhibou, although the overall major economic activity is fishing.

The town was established as a small fishing port, controlled by the Portuguese, the Dutch and finally the French. In 1907 by decree of the governor general of French West Africa Ernest Roume, it was renamed Port-Étienne after the former French Minister of the Colonies Eugène Étienne. After Mauritania became independent in 1960, the town name changed to Nouadhibou.

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Transport: Road Nouadhibou is linked with the Coastal Motorway RN2 to the capital Nouakchott (a distance of 450 km (280 mi)) and by highway to the Western Saharan border in the north (a distance of 70 km (43 mi)).

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Transport: Rail Nouadhibou also is connected by railway to the iron mines in Zouérat, 670 km to the east. The freight trains can be as long as 3 km, reputedly the longest in the world. The railway also carries passengers and calls at Choum.

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Transport: Air The city is served by Nouadhibou Airport.

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Ship graveyard Over 300 ships lie abandoned along the coast around Nouadhibou.

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Economy Plans were drawn up at the beginning of 1963 to build a port called Port Wharf in the fishing harbour, which included the construction of industrial and trade buildings. This became operational in 1966. This wharf was designed to accommodate traffic of up to 50,000 tonnes. In 1977 the wharf was lengthened to provide 3 extra berths for ships of average tonnage raising its capacity to 320,000 tonnes.

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Nouakchott Time 

Nouadhibou has a population of over 118,000 people. Nouadhibou also forms the centre of the wider Nouadhibou Region which has a population of over 140,000 people.

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Twin Towns - Sister Cities Nouadhibou has links with:

🇲🇦 Casablanca, Morocco 🇨🇳 Fuzhou, China 🇮🇨 Las Palmas, Canary Islands
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Antipodal to Nouadhibou is: 162.96,-20.937

Locations Near: Nouadhibou -17.0399,20.9366

🇪🇭 Dakhla -15.933,23.7 d: 327.7  

🇲🇷 Nouakchott -15.98,18.092 d: 335.2  

🇲🇷 Rosso -15.8,16.5 d: 510.3  

🇸🇳 Dagana -15.6,16.483 d: 517.9  

🇲🇷 Zouérat -12.467,22.733 d: 512.5  

🇸🇳 Saint-Louis -16.5,16.033 d: 548.2  

🇸🇳 St-Louis -16.49,16.025 d: 549.3  

🇲🇷 Aleg -13.917,17.05 d: 542.7  

🇸🇳 Louga -16.217,15.617 d: 597.9  

🇸🇳 Thiès -16.917,14.783 d: 684.3  

Antipodal to: Nouadhibou 162.96,-20.937

🇳🇨 Koné 164.852,-21.059 d: 19818.2  

🇳🇨 Nouméa 166.45,-22.267 d: 19625.1  

🇻🇺 Port Vila 168.315,-17.737 d: 19350.1  

🇦🇺 Hervey Bay 152.855,-25.29 d: 18874.4  

🇦🇺 Fraser Coast 152.831,-25.291 d: 18872.1  

🇦🇺 Sunshine Coast 153.087,-26.653 d: 18827.1  

🇦🇺 Caloundra 153.133,-26.8 d: 18822.7  

🇦🇺 Buderim 153.053,-26.685 d: 18822.4  

🇦🇺 Redcliffe 153.075,-27.228 d: 18792.7  

🇦🇺 Redland City 153.25,-27.583 d: 18785  

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