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Mauritius

Mauritius is an island nation in the Indian Ocean about 2,300 km from the 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.
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include Port Louis and Rodrigues.

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is the capital of Mauritius, and with around 150,000 inhabitants the island nation's most populous city. Sitting in a bay surrounded by mountains, is a lively and modern city also with charming districts from colonial times.

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is an island which is part of the Republic of Mauritius. It is about 560 km east of the main Mauritius island, and is rather isolated in the Indian Ocean.

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is a district of Mauritius, located in the northwest of the island, and is one of the most densely populated parts of the island. The name of the district comes from the French word for grapefruits.

Destinations to Discover

Explore places such as Le Morne Brabant and Curepipe.

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is a peninsula at the extreme southwestern tip of the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius. On it is a basaltic monolith of the same name 556 metres high.

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is a sprawling town in the centre of Mauritius. At an altitude of 561 m, it marks the top of the ridge on the road between Port Louis and Vieux Grand Port, and the name may indicate that travellers rested here for long enough to smoke then clean out their clay pipes.

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also known as French: Villes Jumelles, is a town in Mauritius, located in the , the eastern part also lies in the .

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, also known as La Ville des Fleurs, is a town in Mauritius, located mainly in the . Its western part lies in the .

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Mahébourg is a small village on the south-eastern coast of the island of Mauritius, having a population of 15,457 as of 2015. It is considered the main town of the .

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is a medium-sized village in the north of the Mauritius district of . It lies exactly 11 kilometres from , the capital of the island.

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is a small seaside resort and village in Mauritius along the rugged coast of the Savanne district.

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Grand Baie is a coastal village in Mauritius located mainly in the . The western part of the village lies inside the .

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is a village in Mauritius mainly located in . The eastern part of the village lies in the . The village is administered by the Village Council under the aegis of the Rivière Noire District Council.

is a village on the western coast of Mauritius. It has long been the seat of the council of the . The district council recently moved to its new headquarters in Bambous, this village being more accessible to the villagers.

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is a seaside village on the west coast of Mauritius in the district of . The name most likely comes from an Old Dutch phrase, "Fried Landt Flaak", meaning free, flat land.

Mauritius

Latitude of center
-20.2802° or 20° 16′ 49″ south
Longitude of center
57.5739° or 57° 34′ 26″ east
Population
1,270,000
Area
2,040 km² (788 miles²)
Elevation
432 metres (1,417 feet)
Capital
Currency
Rupee (MUR)
Phone code
.mu
Internet domain
230
IATA airport code
MRU
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1708980402
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­country
Geo­Names ID
934292
Wiki­data ID
Q1027
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In Other Languages

From Abkhazian to Zulu—“Mauritius” goes by many names.
  • Abkhazian: “Ареспублика Маврики”
  • Abkhazian: “Маврики”
  • Afrikaans: “Mauritius”
  • Akan: “Mɔrehyeɔs”
  • Albanian: “Mauritius”
  • Albanian: “Mauritiusi”
  • Amharic: “ማሩሸስ”
  • Amharic: “ሞሪሸስ”
  • Amis: “Mauritus”
  • Angika: “मॉरिशस”
  • 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”
  • 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 প্রজাতন্ত্র”
  • Bengali: “মরিশাস”
  • Betawi: “Moritius”
  • 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”
  • Cherokee: “ᏍᎦᏚᎩ ᎾᎿ ᎼᎵᏏᎥᏍ”
  • Chinese: “Máolǐqiúsī”
  • 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”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Mawriki”
  • Dotyali: “मोरिसस”
  • Dotyali: “मौरिशस”
  • Dutch: “Mauritius”
  • Dutch: “MU”
  • Dutch: “MUS”
  • Dzongkha: “མོ་རི་ཤཱས”
  • Eastern Mari: “Маврикий”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “موريشيوس”
  • Esperanto: “Maŭricio”
  • Estonian: “Mauritius”
  • Estonian: “Mauritiuse Vabariik”
  • Ewe: “Maurice”
  • Ewe: “Mauritius”
  • Ewe: “mauritiusdukɔ”
  • Ewe: “Moris”
  • Ewe: “MRI”
  • Ewe: “mu”
  • Ewe: “Republic of Mauritius”
  • Extremaduran: “Mauriciu”
  • Faroese: “Móritius”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Mauritius”
  • Finnish: “Mauritiuksen tasavalta”
  • Finnish: “Mauritius”
  • French: “Ile Maurice”
  • French: “île Maurice”
  • French: “Île Maurice”
  • French: “la République de Maurice”
  • French: “Maurice”
  • French: “MU”
  • French: “république de Maurice”
  • French: “République de Maurice”
  • French: “Île de France” (historical)
  • Fulah: “Moriis”
  • Gagauz: “Mavriki”
  • Galician: “Mauricio”
  • Ganda: “Mauritius”
  • Ganda: “Mawulisyasi”
  • Georgian: “მავრიკი”
  • Georgian: “მავრიკია”
  • German: “Mauritius”
  • German: “Republik Mauritius”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Mauritius”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Republic of Mauritius”
  • Gilaki: “مۊريس”
  • Goan Konkani: “Maurixos”
  • 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: “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 täsiväldi”
  • Inari Sami: “Mauritius”
  • 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: “Морисин Орн”
  • Kannada: “ಮಾರಿಶಿಯಸ್”
  • Kannada: “ಮಾರಿಷಸ್”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Mavrikiy”
  • Kashmiri: “مورِشَس”
  • Kashmiri: “موریشس”
  • 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: “ມົວຣິຊຽສ”
  • Latin: “Mauricius”
  • Latin: “Mauritia”
  • Latin: “Mauritius”
  • Latin: “Res publica Mauricii”
  • Latin: “Res publica Mauritii”
  • Latvian: “Maurīcija”
  • Latvian: “Maurīcijas Republika”
  • Ligurian: “Mauritius”
  • Limburgan: “Mauritius”
  • Lingala: “Morisɛ”
  • Lingala: “Morisi”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Mauris”
  • Literary Chinese: “模里西斯”
  • Lithuanian: “Mauricijus”
  • Livvi: “Mavriki”
  • Lombard: “Mauritius”
  • Low German: “Maurisius”
  • Low German: “Mauritius”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Mauritius”
  • Luba-Katanga: “Morise”
  • Luxembourgish: “Mauritius”
  • Macedonian: “Маврициус”
  • Macedonian: “Маурициус”
  • Magahi: “मारिशस”
  • 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”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Mauritius”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Mauritius”
  • Minangkabau: “Mauritius”
  • Mingrelian: “მავრიკი”
  • Mingrelian: “მავრიკიშ რესპუბლიკა”
  • Moksha: “Маврициус”
  • Mongolian: “Маврики”
  • Mongolian: “Маврикий”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “موريس”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “موريشيوس”
  • Nauru: “Mauritius”
  • Nepali: “मौरिसस”
  • Nepali: “मौरिसियस”
  • Nigerian Pidgin: “Mauritius”
  • North Ndebele: “Mauritius”
  • Northern Frisian: “Mauritsius”
  • Northern Luri: “موٙریس”
  • Northern Sami: “Mauritius dásseváldi”
  • Northern Sami: “Mauritius”
  • Northern Sami: “Mauritiusa dásseváldi”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Mauritius”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Republikken Mauritius”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Mauritius”
  • Norwegian: “Mauritius”
  • Novial: “Mauritius”
  • Obolo: “Mọrisiọs”
  • 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”
  • Papiamento: “Mauritius”
  • Pedi: “Mauritius”
  • Persian: “موریتیوس”
  • Persian: “موریس”
  • Piemontese: “Maurissi”
  • Piemontese: “Mauritius”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Mauritius”
  • Polish: “Mauritius”
  • Portuguese: “Maurícia”
  • Portuguese: “Mauricias”
  • Portuguese: “Maurícias”
  • Portuguese: “Maurício”
  • Portuguese: “Republica da Mauricia”
  • Portuguese: “República da Maurícia”
  • Portuguese: “Republica de Mauricio”
  • Portuguese: “República de Maurício”
  • Pushto: “ماوريتوس”
  • Pushto: “ماوریتوس”
  • Pushto: “موریشیس”
  • Quechua: “Mauricio”
  • Quechua: “Mawrisyu”
  • Romanian: “Mauritius”
  • Romanian: “Maurițius”
  • Romanian: “Republica Mauritius”
  • Romansh: “Mauritius”
  • Rundi: “Izinga rya Morise”
  • Russia Buriat: “Маврики”
  • Russia Buriat: “Маврикий”
  • Russian: “Маврикий”
  • Russian: “Республика Маврикий”
  • Rusyn: “Маврікій”
  • Sakizaya: “Mauritus”
  • Samoan: “Mauritius”
  • Samogitian: “Maurikėjos”
  • Sango: “Mörîsi”
  • Sanskrit: “मारिषस्”
  • Santali: “ᱢᱚᱨᱤᱥᱟᱥ”
  • Sardinian: “Maurìtzius”
  • Sardinian: “Repùblica de Maurìtzius”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Mauritius”
  • Scots: “Mauritius”
  • Scots: “Republic o Mauritius”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Na h-Eileanan Mhoiriseas”
  • Serbian: “MU”
  • Serbian: “MUS”
  • Serbian: “Маурицијус”
  • Serbian: “Република Маурицијус”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Mauricijus”
  • Shan: “မိူင်းမေႃးရီႇသႃႇ”
  • Shona: “Mauritius”
  • Shona: “Morishasi”
  • Sicilian: “Mauritius”
  • Silesian: “Mauritius”
  • Sindhi: “موريشس”
  • Sinhala: “මුරුසි සමුහාණ්ඩුව”
  • Sinhala: “මුරුසිය”
  • 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”
  • Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⵎⵓⵔⵉⵙ (ⵜⴰⵎⵓⵔⵜ)”
  • Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⵎⵓⵔⵉⵛⵢⵓⵙ”
  • Sundanese: “Mauritius”
  • Swahili: “Morisi”
  • Swati: “IMorishiyasi”
  • Swedish: “Mauritius”
  • Swedish: “Republiken Mauritius”
  • Swiss German: “Mauritius”
  • Tagalog: “Maurisyo”
  • Tagalog: “Mauritius”
  • Tahitian: “Ile maurice”
  • Tajik: “Маврикий”
  • Tajik: “Маврикия”
  • Talysh: “Mauritius”
  • Talysh: “Maurityus”
  • 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”
  • Turkish: “Morityus”
  • 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: “Cộng hoà Mauritius”
  • Vietnamese: “Cộng hòa Mauritius”
  • Vietnamese: “Mauritius”
  • Vietnamese: “Mô-ri-xơ”
  • Vlax Romani: “Mauritius”
  • Volapük: “Moriseän”
  • Võro: “Mauritius”
  • Walloon: “Iye Meurice (payis)”
  • Walloon: “Iye Meurice”
  • 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: “Móoris”
  • Wolof: “Moriis”
  • Wu Chinese: “毛里求斯”
  • Yakut: “Мауритиус”
  • Yiddish: “מאריציוס”
  • Yoruba: “Maritiusi”
  • Yoruba: “Mọ́rísì”
  • Yue Chinese: “毛厘士”
  • Zeeuws: “Mauritius”
  • Zhuang: “Mauritius”
  • Zulu: “i-Mauritius”
  • Zulu: “IMorishisi”
  • “ma Mowisi”
  • “Mauricio”
  • “Maurikėjos”
  • “Mauritius”
  • “मारिशस”

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