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Mauritania is divided into 12 '''regions''' (capitals in parentheses) and one capital district:

# Adrar ( Atar )
# Assaba ( Kiffa )
# Brakna ( Aleg )
# Dakhlet Nouadhibou ( Nouadhibou )
# Gorgol ( Kaédi )
# Guidimaka ( Sélibaby )
# Hodh Ech Chargui ( Néma )
# Hodh El Gharbi ( Aioun El Atrouss )
# Inchiri ( Akjoujt )
# Nouakchott (national capital)
# Tagant ( Tidjikdja )
# Tiris Zemmour ( Zouérate )
# Trarza ( Rosso )

During the Mauritanian occupation of Western Sahara (1975-79), its portion of the territory (roughly corresponding to the Saguia El-Hamra province) was named Tiris Al-Gharbiyya .

The Region s are subdivided into 44 Departments .