🇲🇷 Mauritania 15 administrative divisions
15 first-level administrative divisions (states, provinces, regions or counties, depending on the country) and 256 cities and towns, each with latitude and longitude. Public domain, free to download, no API key.
The country
- ISO 3166-1
- MR · MRT · 478
- Capital
- Nouakchott
- Continent
- Africa
- Currency
- MRU, Mauritanian ouguiya
- Calling code
- +222
- Internet domain
- .mr
- Divisions
- 15
- Cities and towns
- 256
Divisions
The 15 divisions of Mauritania
15 of them carry an ISO 3166-2 code. Counts are cities and towns inside each division.
| Division | ISO 3166-2 | Cities and towns | Population |
|---|---|---|---|
| Adrar | MR-07 | 18 | 69,542 |
| Assaba | MR-03 | 25 | 451,804 |
| Brakna | MR-05 | 26 | 247,006 |
| Dakhlet Nouadhibou | MR-08 | 10 | 184,459 |
| Gorgol | MR-04 | 32 | 442,490 |
| Guidimakha | MR-10 | 23 | 363,075 |
| Hodh Ech Chargui | MR-01 | 33 | 625,643 |
| Hodh El Gharbi | MR-02 | 20 | 403,091 |
| Inchiri | MR-12 | 5 | 29,484 |
| Nouakchott South | MR-15 | 3 | 239,593 |
| Nouakchott West | MR-13 | 3 | 204,881 |
| Nouakchott-Nord | MR-14 | 4 | 614,465 |
| Tagant | MR-09 | 16 | – |
| Tiris Zemmour | MR-11 | 7 | 53,261 |
| Trarza | MR-06 | 28 | 323,903 |
A further 3 places could not be matched to a
division and are listed separately in the API as
"unassigned": true.
Get it
Both files, in one request each
# every division of Mauritania
curl -s https://api.placedb.org/v1/regions/MR.json
# the cities and towns of one division (id from the file above)
curl -s https://api.placedb.org/v1/cities/MR/<id>.jsonNo key, no account, no rate limit. The endpoints · try it live.