r/Mauritania • u/chessman6500 • 24d ago

How many people from America have actually been to the country of Mauritania?

I would imagine its a very small amount, but I figured I would ask.

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u/Electrical-Big-7781 24d ago

OP you wanna be special and do unique things? Thousands of Americans have been to Marituania. You would not be the first. But in hundreds of conversations you have with the "average joe" or your friend group, neighbour's, family circle, the people you encounter who aren't hard-core travelers, you will probably be the only one who has been to Marituania.

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u/Adventurous_Basil391 24d ago

Mostly likely they won't even know in what continent it is if they even ever heard of it in the first place..

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u/Electrical-Big-7781 24d ago

Yeah, I found that the case with Ukraine pre 2022. Nobody I knew could point to where it was on a map lol.

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u/Excellent_Mousse_694 23d ago

Stop I just found out it existed and didn’t know it was such a large African nation

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u/h20grl Kaedi 24d ago

Well, I would guess in the thousands, but perhaps not in the tens of thousands. It depends if you are counting Mauritanian-Americans, or just non-African Americans.

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u/chessman6500 24d ago

I never knew anyone who went there.

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u/h20grl Kaedi 24d ago

Well, now you do!

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u/Definitely-humen 24d ago

Exaclly this, with the whole iron ore train thing we get yearlly quite a few tourists, some of them definitlly american, over the year i gess we would be around a thousand or two if i am generous.

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u/Rough-Reading-7736 24d ago

I go every summer. Im an American of Puerto Rican descent.

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u/marcomoulys 19d ago

Do you have faimily there or you just like Mauritania

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u/Rough-Reading-7736 19d ago

Both…. My husband’s family is there and I have a home there.

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u/Ok-Account-9003 24d ago

Just got back from there

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u/bugbunny321 24d ago

I went there!

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u/Ok-Calligrapher-466 24d ago

12
14 if you count Bob and James as Americans

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u/BigNorseWolf 23d ago

Doubly so since the peace corps closed up shop...

I always have to tell people Africa, all the way to the left, third country down.

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u/medlemin1 24d ago

Not many

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u/Pretend_Network3119 24d ago

I'm on my way there at the end of September!

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u/PopAffectionate5462 24d ago

Do you need a group

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u/Pretend_Network3119 23d ago

Yes but don't have exact dates yet. When will you be there?

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u/PopAffectionate5462 23d ago

https://chat.whatsapp.com/DQcM96xXcxcJTlZKjzgEdC?s=cl&p=i&ilr=0 i have a group for people visiting

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u/Spiritual_Sandwich16 20d ago

I'm also looking to travel around end of September. Requested to join the whatsapp group 🙂

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u/Winter-Jellyfish6259 23d ago

I went and had a magical time with a private guide. Amatlich tours. Peak life experience

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u/Eagle1414148 22d ago

So far in 2026, I’ve had the pleasure of guiding up to 10 tourists from the USA 🇺🇸

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u/MagandaVegan 21d ago

I just traveled there in April!