
Charles Henri Toupet
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LOCATION: Genas 69740, France
Emeritus Professor of Tropical Geography, University of Lyon III. Author of Étude du milieu physique de massif de l'Assaba, Mauritanie and others.
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Mauritania, country on the Atlantic coast of Africa. Mauritania forms a geographic and cultural bridge between the North African Maghrib (a region that also includes Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia) and the westernmost portion of sub-Saharan Africa. Culturally, it forms a transitional zone between…
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