Mauritius
Mauritius is an island nation in the Indian Ocean about 2,300 km from the African continent. Mauritius is mostly appreciated by visitors for its natural beauty and man-made attractions, multi-ethnic and cultural diversity, tropical climate, beautiful beaches and water sports.Tap on the map to travel |
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Popular Destinations
Port Louis
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Port Louis is the capital of Mauritius, and with around 150,000 inhabitants the island nation's most populous city.
Rodrigues
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Rodrigues is an island which is part of the Republic of Mauritius.
Pamplemousses
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Pamplemousses is a district of Mauritius, located in the northwest of the island, and is one of the most densely populated parts of the island.
Destinations
Vacoas-Phoenix
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Vacoas-Phoenix or Phoenix is one of the major towns found in the island nation of Mauritius.
Quatre Bornes
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Quatre Bornes also known as La Ville des Fleurs, is a town in Mauritius, located in the Plaines Wilhems District, the western part also lies in the Rivière Noire District.
Mahebourg
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Mahébourg is a small town on the south-eastern coast of the island of Mauritius, having a population of 15,457 as of 2015.
Triolet
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Triolet is a medium-sized town in the north of Mauritius, found in the district of Pamplemousses.
Souillac
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Souillac is a small seaside resort and village in Mauritius along the rugged coast of the Savanne district.
Grand Bay
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Grand Baie is a coastal village in Mauritius located in the Rivière du Rempart District, but the western part also lies inside the Pamplemousses District.
Chamarel
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Chamarel is a village in Mauritius located in Rivière Noire District, the eastern part of the village also lies in the Savanne District.
Flic en Flac
Flic-en-Flac is a seaside village on the west coast of Mauritius in the district of Black River.The name most likely comes from an Old Dutch phrase, "Fried Landt Flaak", meaning free, flat land.Mauritius
- Type: Country with 1,270,000 residents
- Description: island sovereign state off of East Africa in the Indian Ocean
- Languages: English, Bhojpuri and French
- Categories: parliamentary republic, sovereign state, island country, archipelagic state and locality
- Location: East African Islands, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude of centre
-20.2802° or 20° 16' 49" southLongitude of centre
57.5739° or 57° 34' 26" eastPopulation
1,270,000Area
2,040 km² (788 miles²)Elevation
432 metres (1,417 feet)Capital
Port LouisCurrency
Rupee (MUR)Phone code
.muInternet domain
230IATA airport code
MRUOpenStreetMap ID
node 1708980402OpenStreetMap Feature
place=countryGeoNames ID
934292Wikidata ID
Q1027Mauritius Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Abkhazian: Ареспублика Маврики
- Abkhazian: Маврики
- Afar: Mavrikiy
- Afrikaans: Mauritius
- Akan: MRI
- Akan: Maurice
- Akan: Mauritius
- Akan: Moris
- Akan: Mɔrehyeɔs
- Akan: Republic of Mauritius
- Akan: mu
- Albanian: Mauritius
- Albanian: Mauritiusi
- Amharic: Mauritus
- Amharic: ማሩሸስ
- Amharic: ሞሪሸስ
- Amis: Mauritus
- Angika: मॉरिशस
- Arabic: Mauritius
- Arabic: بور لوي
- Arabic: بور لويس
- Arabic: جمهورية موريشيوس
- Arabic: عاصمة موريشيوس
- Arabic: مورشس
- Arabic: موريتيوس
- Arabic: موريشوس
- Arabic: موريشيوس
- Aragonese: Mauricio
- Armenian: Մավրիկիոս
- Armenian: Մավրիտոս
- Arpitan: Môris
- Assamese: মৰিছাছ
- Asturian: Mauriciu
- Atayal: Mauritus
- Avaric: Mauritia
- Azerbaijani: Mavriki
- Balinese: Mauritius
- Bambara: Morisi
- Banjar: Mauritius
- Bashkir: Маврикий
- Basque: Maurizio
- Basque: Maurizioko Errepublika
- Bavarian: Mauritius
- Belarusian: Маўрыкій
- Belarusian: Маўрыцы
- Bengali: মউরিশাস
- Bengali: মরিশাস
- Bengali: মরিশাস প্রজাতন্ত্র
- Bhojpuri: मारिशस
- Bhojpuri: मॉरिशस
- Bishnupriya: মরিশাস
- Bislama: Morisas
- Bosnian: Mauricijus
- Bosnian: Mauricius
- Breton: Maoris
- Breton: Moris
- Bulgarian: Мавриций
- Burmese: မောရစ်ရှ
- Burmese: မောရစ်ရှနိုင်ငံ
- Catalan: Maurici
- Catalan: República de Maurici
- Cebuano: Maurisyo
- Cebuano: Mauritius
- Central Bikol: Maurisyo
- Central Kurdish: مۆریس
- Chavacano: Mauricio
- Chechen: Маврики
- Cherokee: ᎼᎵᏏᎥᏍ
- Chinese: Mauritius
- Chinese: 模里西斯
- Chinese: 毛厘士
- Chinese: 毛里求斯 / 模里西斯
- Chinese: 毛里求斯
- Chinese: 毛里裘斯
- Chuvash: Маврики
- Chuvash: Маврикий
- Cornish: Ynys Morrys
- Corsican: Mauritius
- Corsican: Mauriziu
- Corsican: Republica di Mauritius
- Corsican: Republica di Mauriziu
- Crimean Tatar: Mauritius
- Croatian: Mauricijus
- Czech: Mauricius
- Dagbani: Mauritius
- Danish: Mauritius
- Dhivehi: މޮރިޝަސް
- Dimli (individual language): Maurityus
- Dotyali: मोरिसस
- Dotyali: मौरिशस
- Dutch: MU
- Dutch: MUS
- Dutch: Mauritius
- Dzongkha: མོ་རི་ཤཱས
- Eastern Mari: Маврикий
- Egyptian Arabic: موريشيوس
- English: MRI
- English: MU
- English: Maurice
- English: Moris
- English: Republic of Mauritius
- English: mu
- Esperanto: Maŭricio
- Estonian: Mauritius
- Estonian: Mauritiuse Vabariik
- Ewe: MRI
- Ewe: Maurice
- Ewe: Mauritius
- Ewe: Moris
- Ewe: Republic of Mauritius
- Ewe: mauritiusdukɔ
- Ewe: mu
- Extremaduran: Mauriciu
- Faroese: Móritius
- Fiji Hindi: Mauritius
- Finnish: Mauritiuksen tasavalta
- Finnish: Mauritius
- French (Historic): Île de France
- French: MU
- French: Maurice
- French: République de Maurice
- French: la République de Maurice
- French: république de Maurice
- French: Île Maurice
- French: île Maurice
- Fulah: Moriis
- Gagauz: Mavriki
- Galician: Mauricio - Maurice
- Galician: Mauricio
- Ganda: Mauritius
- Ganda: Mawulisyasi
- Georgian: მავრიკი
- Georgian: მავრიკია
- German: Mauritius
- German: Republik Mauritius
- Ghanaian Pidgin English: Mauritius
- Greek: Μαυρίκιος
- Guarani: Maurísio
- Guianese Creole French: Moris
- Gujarati: મોરિશિયસ
- Gujarati: મોરિશ્યસ
- Gujarati: મોરેશિયસ
- Gujarati: મોરેશ્યસ
- Haitian: Moris
- Haitian: Repiblik Moris
- Hakka Chinese: Mauritius
- Hausa: Mauritius
- Hausa: Mauritiusa
- Hausa: Moris
- Hausa: Moritus
- Hawaiian: Mauritiusa
- Hebrew: מאוריציוס
- Hindi: मॉरिशस
- Hindi: मॉरीशस
- Hungarian: Mauritius
- Hungarian: Mauritiusi Köztársaság
- Icelandic: Máritíus
- Ido: Maurico
- Igbo: Mauritius
- Iloko: Maurisio
- Inari Sami: Mauritius
- Inari Sami: Mauritius täsiväldi
- Indonesian: Mauritius
- Interlingua: Mauritio
- Interlingue: Mauritius
- Irish: Oileán Mhuirís
- Italian: Mauritius
- Italian: Maurizio
- Italian: Repubblica di Mauritius
- Italian: Repubblica di Maurizio
- Jamaican Creole English: Morishos
- Japanese: モーリシャス
- Japanese: モーリシャス共和国
- Javanese: Mauritius
- Kalaallisut: Mauritius
- Kalmyk: Маврикий Орн
- Kalmyk: Морисин Орн
- Kannada: ಮಾರಿಶಿಯಸ್
- Kannada: ಮಾರಿಷಸ್
- Kara-Kalpak: Mavrikiy
- Kashmiri: مورِشَس
- Kazakh: Маврикий
- Khmer: ម៉ូរីស
- Kikuyu: Mauritius
- Kikuyu: Morisi
- Kinyarwanda: Morise
- Kirghiz: Маврикий
- Kongo: Mauritius
- Korean: 모리셔스
- Kotava: Mauritia
- Kurdish: Maurîtius
- Ladin: Mauritius
- Ladino: Maurisio
- Lao: Maurisio
- Lao: ມົວຣິຊຽສ
- Latin: Mauricius
- Latin: Mauritia
- Latin: Mauritius
- Latin: Res publica Mauricii
- Latin: Res publica Mauritii
- Latvian: Maurīcija
- Ligurian: Mauritius
- Limburgan: Mauritius
- Lingala: Morisi
- Lingala: Morisɛ
- Lingua Franca Nova: Mauris
- Literary Chinese: 模里西斯
- Lithuanian: Mauricijus
- Livvi: Mavriki
- Lombard: Mauritius
- Low German: Maurisius
- Low German: Mauritius
- Luba-Katanga: Morise
- Luxembourgish: Mauritius
- Macedonian: Маврициус
- Macedonian: Маурициус
- Malagasy: Maorisy
- Malay: Mauritius
- Malayalam: മൌറീഷ്യസ്
- Malayalam: മൗറീഷ്യസ്
- Maltese: Mauritius
- Maltese: Mawrizju
- Maltese: Repubblika ta’ Mauritius
- Manipuri: ꯃꯥꯎꯔꯤꯇꯤꯌꯁ
- Manx: Ellan Wirrish
- Maori: Marihi
- Marathi: मॉरिशस
- Marathi: मॉरिशिअस
- Mazanderani: موریس
- Mazanderani: مُریس
- Min Dong Chinese: Mauritius
- Min Nan Chinese: Mauritius
- Minangkabau: Mauritius
- Mingrelian: მავრიკი
- Moksha: Маврициус
- Mongolian: Маврики
- Mongolian: Маврикий
- Mongolian: ꯃꯥꯎꯔꯤꯇꯤꯌꯁ
- Moroccan Arabic: موريس
- Moroccan Arabic: موريشيوس
- Nauru: Mauritius
- Nepali: मौरिसस
- Nepali: मौरिसियस
- North Ndebele: Mauritius
- Northern Frisian: Mauritsius
- Northern Luri: موٙریس
- Northern Sami: Mauritius
- Northern Sami: Mauritiusa dásseváldi
- Northern Sami: Mauritius dásseváldi
- Norwegian: Mauritius
- Norwegian Bokmål: Mauritius
- Norwegian Bokmål: Republikken Mauritius
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Mauritius
- Novial: Mauritius
- Occitan (post 1500): Maurici
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): Mauritius
- Oriya: ମରିସସ
- Oromo: Mooriishes
- Ossetian: Маврикий
- Pali: मारिशस
- Pampanga: Maurisiu
- Pampanga: Mauritius
- Panjabi: ਮਾਰੀਸ਼ਸ
- Panjabi: ਮੌਰੀਸ਼ਸ
- Pedi: Mauritius
- Persian: موریتیوس
- Persian: موریس
- Piemontese: Maurissi
- Piemontese: Mauritius
- Pitcairn-Norfolk: Mauritius
- Polish: Mauritius
- Portuguese: Mauricias
- Portuguese: Maurícia
- Portuguese: Maurícias
- Portuguese: Maurício
- Portuguese: Republica da Mauricia
- Portuguese: Republica de Mauricio
- Portuguese: República da Maurícia
- Portuguese: República de Maurício
- Pushto: ماوریتوس
- Pushto: موریشیس
- Quechua: Mauricio
- Quechua: Mawrisyu
- Romanian: Mauritius
- Romanian: Maurițius
- Romansh: Mauritius
- Rundi: Izinga rya Morise
- Russia Buriat: Маврики
- Russia Buriat: Маврикий
- Russian: Маврикий
- Russian: Республика Маврикий
- Sakizaya: Mauritus
- Samoan: Mauritius
- Samogitian: Maurikėjos
- Sango: Mörîsi
- Sanskrit: मारिषस्
- Sardinian: Maurìtzius
- Sardinian: Repùblica de Maurìtzius
- Saterfriesisch: Mauritius
- Scots: Mauritius
- Scots: Republic o Mauritius
- Scottish Gaelic: Na h-Eileanan Mhoiriseas
- Serbian: Маурицијус
- Serbo-Croatian: Mauricijus
- Shan: မိူင်းမေႃးရီႇသႃႇ
- Shona: Mauritius
- Shona: Morishasi
- Sicilian: Mauritius
- Silesian: Mauritius
- Sindhi: موريشس
- Sinhala: මුරුසිය
- Sinhala: මුරුසි සමුහාණ්ඩුව
- Skolt Sami: Mauritius
- Skolt Sami: Mauritiuuzz tääʹssväʹldd
- Slovak: Maurícijská republika
- Slovak: Maurícius
- Slovenian: Maurice
- Slovenian: Mauritius
- Slovenian: Mavricij
- Somali: Mauritius
- Somali: Mawrishiyaas
- South Azerbaijani: ماوریتیوس
- Southern Sotho: Mauritius
- Spanish: Mauricio
- Spanish: Republica de Mauricio
- Spanish: República de Mauricio
- Sundanese: Mauritius
- Swahili: Morisi
- Swati: IMorishiyasi
- Swedish: Mauritius
- Swedish: Republiken Mauritius
- Swiss German: Mauritius
- Tagalog: Maurisyo
- Tagalog: Mauritius
- Tajik: Маврикий
- Tajik: Маврикия
- Tamil: மொரிசியசு
- Tamil: மொரிசியஸ்
- Tamil: மொரியசு குடியரசு ,தினா அரோபி,செர்ன்
- Taroko: Mauritus
- Tatar: Маврикий
- Telugu: మారిషస్
- Thai: ประเทศมอริเชียส
- Thai: มอริเชียส
- Tibetan: མའུ་རི་ཊིའུ་སུ།
- Tibetan: མཽ་རིཤས྄།
- Tigrinya: ማሩሸስ
- Tonga (Tonga Islands): Maulitiusi
- Tosk Albanian: Mauritius
- Tsonga: Mauritius
- Tumbuka: Mauritius
- Tunisian Arabic: الموريس
- Turkish: Mauritius
- Turkmen: Mawrikiý
- Udmurt: Маврикий
- Uighur: ماۋرىتىئۇس
- Uighur: ماۋرىتىيۇس
- Ukrainian: Маврикій
- Ukrainian: Республіка Маврикій
- Upper Sorbian: Mauritius
- Urdu: ماریشس
- Urdu: موریشس
- Uzbek: Mavrikiy
- Uzbek: Mavritsiya
- Venetian: Mauritius
- Veps: Mavrikii
- Vietnamese: Mauritius
- Vietnamese: Mô-ri-xơ
- Volapük: Moriseän
- Võro: Mauritius
- Walloon: Iye Meurice (payis)
- Waray (Philippines): Mauritius
- Welsh: Mauritius
- Welsh: Mawrisiws
- Western Balochi: موریس
- Western Frisian: Mauritius
- Western Frisian: Mauritsius
- Western Frisian: Republyk Mauritsius
- Western Mari: Маврикий
- Western Panjabi: ماریشس
- Western Panjabi: موریشس
- Wolof: Moriis
- Wolof: Móoris
- Wu Chinese: 毛里求斯
- Yakut: Мауритиус
- Yiddish: מאריציוס
- Yoruba: Maritiusi
- Yoruba: Mọ́rísì
- Yue Chinese: 毛厘士
- Zeeuws: Mauritius
- Zhuang: Mauritius
- Zulu: IMorishisi
- Zulu: i-Mauritius
- Historic: Isle de France
- Iye Meurice
- Mauritius / Maurice
- Mawriki
- ma Mowisi
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