Geography of Mauritania - Extreme Points

Extreme Points

This is a list of the extreme points of Mauritania, the points that are farther north, south, east or west than any other location.

  • Northern-most point – the tripoint with Algeria and Western Sahara, Tiris Zemmour Region
  • Eastern-most point – the tripoint with Algeria and Mali, Tiris Zemmour Region
  • Southern-most point – the confluence of the Senegal river and the Karakoro river on the border with Mali, Guidimaka Region
  • Western-most point - unnamed location on the border with Western Sahara on the Ras Nouadhibou, peninsula, Dakhlet Nouadhibou Region

Read more about this topic:  Geography Of Mauritania

Famous quotes containing the words extreme and/or points:

    “Individualism, pushed to anarchy, in the family is as ill- founded theoretically and as mischievous practically as it is in the State; while extreme regimentation is a certain means of either destroying self-reliance or of maddening to rebellion.”
    —Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)

    “the
    Decapitated exclamation points in that Other Woman’s eyes.”
    —Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)