Nouakchott, Mauritania’s capital, is located on a plateau near the West African Atlantic coast, about 270 miles (435 km) north-northeast of Dakar, Senegal.
Originally a coastal village on the desert trail north from Dakar, Nouakchott became Mauritania’s capital since 1960, year of the independence from France.
Nouakchott was a major refugee centre during the Saharan droughts of the 1970s and today is the Sahara's largest city if one excludes marginal cases like Cairo (in the Nile River Delta) and the cities north of the Atlas Mountains on Africa's northern coast.
The city is focused on a square, the Place de l'Indépendence, and includes an airport and the industrial area, as well!

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