Mauritania, an African country that many people are not familiar with, is located in the northwest of Africa, covers an area of 1.03 million square kilometers, has a population of 4.6 million, a per capita GDP of 1739 US dollars, and a per capita daily income of only 23 yuan, making it one of the least developed countries in the world.
Mauritania was the last country in the world to abolish slavery, and since 1981, three unsuccessful attempts to abolish it have been made. In 2002, 15% of the local population (about 700,000 people) lived in slavery, and it was not until 2007 that the abolition of slavery was officially announced.
Mauritania has a very high poverty rate of 42 per cent, an illiteracy rate of 44 per cent, and in the 2019 Human Development Index ranking, Mauritania ranks 161st, and there is a chance that we can look at the countries that rank at the bottom.
It is said that so poor, everyone should be thin, the reality is just the opposite, local women are fat for beauty, many families in order to make their daughters marry well, desperately let their daughters eat to death. Girls around the age of ten are forced to eat 9,000 calories a day, which is equivalent to eating 30 hamburgers a day, while normal women should consume 2,000 calories a day.
It is said to be a local tradition that more than 20% of women are overweight and more than half are overweight. In the city of Leblok, the first beauty was called Susan, a woman weighing 600 pounds.
Mauritania is relatively flat, with two-thirds of the area deserted.
Mauritania has a tropical desert climate with a lot of "Hamadan" and tornadoes. The Hamadan wind is a very strange wind known as the "devil's wind". The local people in Africa are very afraid of this wind, and from October to April of the following year, it will continue to blow this wind, and the biggest feature of the Hamadan wind is the dry heat like fire.
Whenever Hamadan blows, people will run to each other and tell each other, "Go home, the Hamadan wind is coming." The Hamadan wind blows, and due to its desert location, the red sand is suspended above 1500 meters in space, covering the sky and the sun, resulting in very low visibility.
Mauritania's main mineral deposit is iron ore, with reserves of 8.7 billion tons, which is a good thing for such a poor country. The local industry is underdeveloped, there are only a few mining plants, the output value of iron ore accounts for 12% of GDP, and exports account for more than half of total exports. In 2006, Mauritania became an oil producer.
In the early days, many Mauritania became rich by relying on the "ancient gold rush".
Mauritanians are not only black Africans, of whom 30 per cent are Moors are white Moors, 40 per cent are black Moors and 30 per cent are black Africans.
The official language of Mauritania is Arabic, mauritania's full name is the "Islamic Republic of Mauritania", and 96% of the population is Muslim.
Mauritania is located in Africa, but the local way of life is completely Islamized, praying 5 times a day, and women generally do not show their faces and do not entertain guests.
Polygamy is practised, but the divorce rate is around 49%. In the local area, divorce is considered normal, and even if a woman is divorced three or four times, everyone will think that this is a very normal thing and will not reject her.
Mauritania's specialty, "roasted whole lamb", is generally used to entertain VIPs, and they also like to drink green tea, they prefer strong tea when drinking tea, adding a lot of sugar and mint.
Mauritania has only one railway, about 645 km long, which mainly transports iron sand.
Mauritania dresses similarly to the Arab countries, with men's and women's skirts, and men wearing white or blue robes with two slits on the front of the robe and two large pockets inside. He wears a long white cloth turban around his head and sandals without heels on his feet.