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:
“There exists, at the bottom of all abasement and misfortune, a last extreme which rebels and joins battle with the forces of law and respectability in a desperate struggle, waged partly by cunning and partly by violence, at once sick and ferocious, in which it attacks the prevailing social order with the pin-pricks of vice and the hammer-blows of crime.”
—Victor Hugo (1802–1885)
“Wonderful “Force of Public Opinion!” We must act and walk in all points as it prescribes; follow the traffic it bids us, realise the sum of money, the degree of “influence” it expects of us, or we shall be lightly esteemed; certain mouthfuls of articulate wind will be blown at us, and this what mortal courage can front?”
—Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881)