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Mauritania, officially the Islamic Republic of Mauritania, is a country in the Maghreb region of West Africa. It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the west, Western Sahara to the north and northwest, Algeria to the northeast, Mali to the east and southeast, and Senegal to the southwest. By land area Mauritania is the 11th-largest country in Africa and the 28th-largest in the world; 90% of its territory is in the Sahara desert. Most of its population of some 4.3 million live in the temperate south of the country; roughly a third of the population is concentrated in the capital and largest city, Nouakchott, on the Atlantic coast.
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History
The national flag of Mauritania is a green field bordered above and below by a horizontal red band and charged in the centre with an upward-pointing golden star and crescent. It is a derivative of the country's first flag, which omitted the red bands. The current flag was adopted by decree in 2017 following a constitutional referendum in which 86% of voters voted in favour of changing the flag. However, the design was not standardised until 2020, when the government of Mauritania published official graphic guidelines for the national flag.
Design & symbolism
Although the design of the current flag was first described legally by Decree No. 2017-467 issued on 25 October 2017, it was not standardised until the release of a government-published graphic guidelines for national symbols in May 2020. Article 1 of the guidelines describes the design as "a flag bearing a golden crescent and star on a green background, and a red horizontal rectangular stripe on either side". Article 2 elaborates on the specifics of the design: the flag's width-to-length ratio is 2:3, the star and crescent are centred with the crescent's convexity facing downwards, the star is five-pointed and positioned horizontally at the edges of the crescent, and the width of each red stripe is a fifth of the flag's width. The guidelines do not permit the dimensions and shapes of the flag to be altered. The minimum measurements for a drawn flag are 5.5 by 7.8 millimetres (0.22 by 0.31 in). When constructing the flag, the guidelines recommend beginning with a green field, then adding the red bands, the star, and finally the crescent. The CMYK, Hexadecimal, and RGB values of the flag's colours are also listed in the guidelines. When printed in black and white, the following…
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