Guerou is a city and department in south-central

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, ...

. Guerou is the region's largest city after

Kiffa Kiffa () is a large town in the far south region of Mauritania, and the name of an administrative area within the local Assaba Region. Kiffa is located at , some from the coast and at the western end of the Aoukar sand sea of southern Mau ...

, capital of Assaba Region. It is located at around . According to the official census, the city's population was 14,418 in 1996, which ranked it in 15th place by population in the country.La Mauritanie en chiffres. Direction de la statistique et de la compatibilité nationale, Mauritania. Office national de la statistique, 1997, p. 14 At the 2013 census report, its population was 22,323.

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Regional capitals in Mauritania Communes of Assaba region {{Mauritania-geo-stub