🇲🇷 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hodh Ech Chargui | MR-01 | 33 | 625,643 |
| Gorgol | MR-04 | 32 | 442,490 |
| Trarza | MR-06 | 28 | 323,903 |
| Brakna | MR-05 | 26 | 247,006 |
| Assaba | MR-03 | 25 | 451,804 |
| Guidimakha | MR-10 | 23 | 363,075 |
| Hodh El Gharbi | MR-02 | 20 | 403,091 |
| Adrar | MR-07 | 18 | 69,542 |
| Tagant | MR-09 | 16 | — |
| Dakhlet Nouadhibou | MR-08 | 10 | 184,459 |
| Tiris Zemmour | MR-11 | 7 | 53,261 |
| Inchiri | MR-12 | 5 | 29,484 |
| Nouakchott-Nord | MR-14 | 4 | 614,465 |
| Nouakchott South | MR-15 | 3 | 239,593 |
| Nouakchott West | MR-13 | 3 | 204,881 |
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.