Worth knowing
Mauritania
The Eye of the Sahara looks like a meteorite crater but is not one. It is a dome of rock pushed up from below, then worn down by erosion into rings more than 40 km across.
Where its story happens
The Richat Structure, at 21.11°N, 11.39°W. It's the place the game marks on the globe once the country is found. See it on a map.
Five things to know about Mauritania
In Geodar these are the five clues to this country, and it counts as one of the hard countries. The game asks the hardest clue first. Here the easiest comes first.
- Where it is. It's Mauritania, on the Atlantic coast of northwest Africa, north of Senegal and west of Mali. See Mauritania on a map.
- Its capital, Nouakchott, stands where the Sahara meets the Atlantic Ocean.
- Most of it lies in the Sahara, and its name shares a root with the word 'Moor'.
- Trains more than 2 km long, among the longest in the world, haul iron ore across its desert to the sea.
- A giant bullseye of rock rings in its desert, more than 40 km wide, has caught astronauts' eyes since the 1960s.