Port Mathurin
The village of Port Mathurin serves as the capital of the island of Rodrigues, a dependency of Mauritius. Most of the population of Rodrigues is settled close to or in the city.
Photo: Wikimedia, Copyrighted free use.- Type: Town with 6,000 residents
- Description: city in Rodrigues, Mauritius
- Also known as: “Port Matherin”, “Port Mathurin (distriktshuvudort i Mauritius)”, “Port-Mathurin”, and “马图林港”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Mont Limon.
Mont Limon
Peak
Mont Limon is the highest point on the Mauritian island of Rodrigues. Mont Limon is situated 4 km southeast of Port Mathurin.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Anse aux Anglais and Baie aux Huîtres.
Anse aux Anglais
Village
Photo: Dunog, Public domain.Port Mathurin
- Categories: city and locality
- Location: Rodrigues, Mauritius, East African Islands, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-19.68084° or 19° 40′ 51″ south
Longitude
63.42211° or 63° 25′ 20″ east
Population
6,000
Elevation
44 metres (144 feet)
UN/LOCODE
MU PMA
Open location code
5JG58C9C+MR
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Amharic to Uzbek—“Port Mathurin” goes by many names.
- Amharic: “ፖርት ማቱሪን”
- Arabic: “بورت ماثورين”
- Asturian: “Port Mathurin”
- Azerbaijani: “Port Mathurin”
- Belarusian: “Порт-Матарын”
- Bengali: “পোর্ট মাথুরিন”
- Bengali: “পোর্ট ম্যাথুরিন”
- Catalan: “Port Mathurin”
- Cebuano: “Port Mathurin”
- Chinese: “馬蒂蘭港”
- Chinese: “马蒂兰港”
- Dutch: “Port Mathurin”
- Esperanto: “Port Mathurin”
- French: “Port Mathurin”
- German: “Port Mathurin”
- Greek: “Πορτ Ματουρέν”
- Hausa: “Port Mathurin”
- Hebrew: “פורט מתהורין”
- Hindi: “पोर्ट मथुरिन”
- Hungarian: “Port Mathurin”
- Indonesian: “Port Mathurin”
- Italian: “Port Mathurin”
- Japanese: “ポート・マチュリン”
- Japanese: “ポルト・マテュラン”
- Javanese: “Port Mathurin”
- Kazakh: “Пор Матюрен”
- Kirghiz: “Пор Матюрен”
- Lithuanian: “Port Maturinas”
- Malagasy: “Port Mathurin”
- Malay: “Port Mathurin”
- Oromo: “Port Mathurin”
- Panjabi: “ਪੋਰਟ ਮਾਥੁਰਿਨ”
- Persian: “پورت ماتورین”
- Polish: “Port Mathurin”
- Portuguese: “Port Mathurin”
- Pushto: “بورت ماثورين”
- Romanian: “Port Mathurin”
- Russian: “Пор Матюрен”
- Russian: “Порт-Матюрен”
- Serbian: “Port Maturin”
- Serbian: “Порт Матурин”
- Slovenian: “Port Mathurin”
- Somali: “Port Mathurin”
- Spanish: “Port Mathurin”
- Swahili: “Port Mathurin”
- Swedish: “Port Mathurin”
- Tatar: “Port Mathurin”
- Turkish: “Port Mathurin”
- Ukrainian: “Порт-Матурин”
- Ukrainian: “Порт-Матюрен”
- Urdu: “پورٹ ماتھرین”
- Urdu: “پورٹ میتھورن”
- Uzbek: “Port Mathurin”
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