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…
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is an island which is part of the Republic of Mauritius.
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is a peninsula at the extreme…

Destinations to Discover

Explore places such as Pamplemousses and Curepipe.
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is a district of Mauritius, located…
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is a sprawling town in the centre of Mauritius.
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also known as French: Villes Jumelles…
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, also known as La Ville des Fleurs…
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Mahébourg is a small village on the south-eastern…
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is a medium-sized village in the north of the Mauritius district of .
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is a small seaside resort and village…
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Grand Baie is a coastal village in Mauritius located mainly in the .
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is a village in Mauritius mainly located in .
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is a village on the western coast of Mauritius.
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is a seaside village on the west coast of Mauritius in the district of .

Mauritius

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Latitude of center
-20.2802° or 20° 16′ 49″ south
Longitude of center
57.5739° or 57° 34′ 26″ east
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: “模里西斯”
  • 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།”
  • 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”
  • Indonesian: “Republik 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”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Маврикий”
  • 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: “ماريشيوس”
  • Pushto: “ماوريتوس”
  • Pushto: “ماوریتوس”
  • Pushto: “موريتوس”
  • Pushto: “موريشوس”
  • 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: “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”
  • Tsonga: “Mauritius”
  • Tswana: “Mauritius”
  • Tumbuka: “Mauritius”
  • Tunisian Arabic: “الموريس”
  • Turkish: “Mauritius”
  • Turkmen: “Mawrikiý”
  • Tyap: “Ma̱urishyot”
  • 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”

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