Nouakchott, Mauritania

Nouakchott, Mauritania is a submarine cable landing point in Mauritania (coordinates 18.0839°, -15.9783°). It serves 1 submarine cable system, making it a single-cable landing in Mauritania's international connectivity infrastructure.

Nouakchott is the capital and largest city of Mauritania. Located in the southwestern part of the country, it is one of the largest cities in the Sahara. The city also serves as the administrative and economic center of Mauritania. Wikipedia

Connected submarine cables

Connectivity profile

From Nouakchott, Mauritania, international traffic can reach 17 countries through 1 cable system. Destinations include Benin, Côte d'Ivoire, Equatorial Guinea, France, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea and 9 more. This location depends on a single cable system — a characteristic that makes it strategically sensitive to physical disruptions.

Monitoring status

No monitoring incidents were recorded on cables serving Nouakchott, Mauritania in the past 90 days — all connected systems remained within normal latency thresholds. Our monitoring network continuously samples latency from external probes to targets reachable via these cables.

About the cables

• Africa Coast to Europe (ACE) (2012) — Africa Coast to Europe (ACE) is a 17,000 km submarine cable that runs along the entire Atlantic coast of West Africa and ends in France. It lands at 19 stations across 19 countries, which makes it one of the most widely-landed submarine cables in the world. Read more →

Submarine cable data from TeleGeography. Geographic context from Wikipedia. Monitoring metrics updated continuously by GeoCables.