Aoujeft is one of the four
departments (officially called ''moughataas'') of the wider
Adrar Region
Adrar () is a large administrative region in Mauritania, named for the Adrar Plateau. The capital is Atar. Other major towns include Choum, Chinguetti and Ouadane. The region borders Western Sahara and the Mauritanian region of Tiris Zemm ...
(the larger administrative division being called a ''wilaya''), in western
Mauritania
Mauritania, officially the Islamic Republic of Mauritania, is a sovereign country in Maghreb, Northwest Africa. It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the west, Western Sahara to Mauritania–Western Sahara border, the north and northwest, ...
. The capital lies at
Aoujeft.
It is made up of four communes, the Agricultural Urban Commune of
Aoujeft and the three rural communes of
El Medah,
Maaden with
Terjit 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
Constituency
There isn’t really much information, but Aoujeft is also a constituency. In 2018 there were a total of 10,075 voters and only 1 seat in the Mauritanian “congress”.
Departments of Mauritania
Adrar region
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