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Aoujeft Department

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Country
  
Mauritania

Time zone
  
+0 (UTC+0)

Local time
  
Monday 8:33 AM

Region
  
Adrar Region

Area
  
26,159 km²

Aoujeft Department

Weather
  
22°C, Wind NE at 19 km/h, 22% Humidity

Aoujeft is one of the four departments (officially called moughataas) of the wider Adrar Region (the larger administrative division being called a wilaya), in western Mauritania. The capital lies at Aoujeft. The other villages in the department include Faraoun, Mharith, Salah Eddarein, Tentane, Terjit, and Tounguad.

Map of Aoujeft Department, Islamic Republic of Mauritania

It is made up of four communes, the Agricultural Urban Commune of Aoujeft and the three rural communes of El Medah, Maeden and N'Terguent. The total area is 24,556 km² and the population in the 2013 census was 12997, which had fallen from 20,181 in the 2000 census, a decline equivalent to 3.49% per year.

References

Aoujeft Department Wikipedia