Mauritania is a nation in Northwest Africa. It is the eleventh biggest sovereign state in Africa and is circumscribed by the Atlantic Ocean toward the west, Western Sahara toward the north and northwest, Algeria toward the upper east, Mali toward the east and southeast, and Senegal toward the southwest. The nation gets its name from the old Berber kingdom of Mauretania, which existed from the third century BCE into the seventh century CE in the most distant north of current Morocco and Algeria. Around 90% of Mauritania's territory is inside the Sahara; subsequently, the populace is moved in the south, where precipitation is somewhat higher. The capital and biggest city is Nouakchott, situated on the Atlantic coast, which is home to around 33% of the country's.

Nouakchott is the capital and biggest city of Mauritania. It is one of the biggest urban areas in the Sahara. The city additionally fills in as the regulatory and monetary focus of Mauritania. Nouakchott was a town of little significance until 1958, when it was picked as the capital of the beginning country of Mauritania. It was planned and worked to oblige 15,000 individuals, however dry season and expanding desertification since the 1970s have uprooted an immense number of Mauritanians who resettled in Nouakchott. This caused enormous urban development and congestion, with the city having an official populace of simply under a million starting at 2013. The resettled populace possessed ghetto zones under poor conditions, yet the living states of a bit of these occupants have since been improved. Situated on the Atlantic bank of the Sahara Desert, it lies on the west shore of Africa. Except for Friendship Port and a little angling port, the seaside strip is for the most part left unfilled and permitted to flood. The coastline incorporates moving sandbanks and sandy shorelines.

Malva sylvestris is a types of the mallow class Malva in the group of Malvaceae and is viewed as the sort species for the family. Known as basic mallow to English-speaking Europeans, it obtained the normal names of cheeses, high mallow and tall mallow, Mauritanian mallow as it moved from its local home in Western Europe, North Africa and Asia through the English-talking world. Malva sylvestris is a spreading herb, which is a yearly in North Africa, biennial in the Mediterranean and a lasting somewhere else. It very well may be straight or decumbent, expanded, and secured with fine delicate hairs or none by any means, M. sylvestris is satisfying in appearance when it first begins to bloom, however as the late spring advances, "the leaves lose their dark green shading and the stems accept a worn out appearance". The leaves are borne upon the stem, are roundish, with various projections, each 2– 4 centimeters (0.79– 1.57 in) long, 2– 5 centimeters (0.79– 1.97 in) and 5– 10 centimeters (2.0– 3.9 in) in width. The leaves have hairs emanating from a typical focus, with conspicuous veins on the underside. Portrayed as ruddy purple, brilliant pinkish-purple with dim stripes and splendid mauve-purple, the blooms of Malva sylvestris show up in axillary bunches of 2 to 4 and structure unpredictably and extended along the primary stem with the blossoms at the base opening first. M. sylvestris has an epicalyx (or false calyx) with elongated fragments, 66% as long as calyx or 2– 3 millimeters in length and 1.5 millimeters wide. Its calyx is allowed to the center, 3– 6 millimeters in length, with comprehensively triangular projections or applaud for the most part 5– 7 millimeters in length. The blooms are 2– multiple times as long as the calyx.