East African Islands
Mauritius
Port Louis District

Port Louis

Port Louis is the capital of , and with around 150,000 inhabitants the island nation's most populous city. Sitting in a bay surrounded by mountains, Port Louis is a lively and modern city also with charming districts from colonial times.
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  • Type: City with 148,000 residents
  • Description: capital city of Mauritius
  • Also known as: “Polwi”, “Porlwi”, “Port Louis Town”, and “Port-Louis”
  • Neighbors:
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Aapravasi Ghat and National Library of Mauritius.

Protected area
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is a building complex located in Port Louis, , the first British colony to receive indentured, or contracted, labour workforce from many countries.

Library
The National Library of the Republic of Mauritius is the national library of . It has been entrusted by law as the national institution responsible for collecting, bibliographically recording, preserving and making available the nation's collective…

Museum
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The a museum dedicated to history and art of Mauritius, is situated at in Port Louis, the capital of . It opened in November 2001.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Caudan Waterfront and Sainte-Croix.

Quarter
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Le is a commercial development in Port Louis, the capital city of . It includes shops, banking facilities, casinos, cinemas, restaurants, a marina and a five star hotel.

Suburb
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is a suburb of the capital city, Port Louis, in , an independent island in the Indian Ocean. It is most famous for its association with the Roman Catholic beatus Jacques-Désiré Laval, who worked in as a missionary from 1841 until his death in 1864.

Port Louis

Latitude
-20.1625° or 20° 9′ 45″ south
Longitude
57.5028° or 57° 30′ 10″ east
Population
148,000
Elevation
3 metres (10 feet)
Named after
Louis XV of France
United Nations Location Code
MU PLU
Open location code
5HFVRGQ3+24
Open­Street­Map ID
node 243819778
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
934154
Wiki­data ID
Q3929
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Port Louis” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Port Louis”
  • Albanian: “Port Louis”
  • Albanian: “Port Luis”
  • Amharic: “ፖርት ሉዊስ”
  • Arabic: “بور لويس”
  • Arabic: “بورت لويس”
  • Aragonese: “Port-Louis (Mauricio)”
  • Aragonese: “Port-Louis”
  • Armenian: “Պորտ Լուի”
  • Asturian: “Port Louis”
  • Asturian: “Port-Louis”
  • Asturian: “Puertu Lluis”
  • Azerbaijani: “Port Luiz”
  • Azerbaijani: “Port-Lui”
  • Balinese: “Port Louis”
  • Bashkir: “Порт-Луи”
  • Basque: “Port Louis”
  • Belarusian: “Порт Луі”
  • Belarusian: “Порт-Луі”
  • Bengali: “পোর্ট লুইস”
  • Bosnian: “Port Louis”
  • Breton: “Port Louis”
  • Bulgarian: “Порт Луи”
  • Catalan: “Port Louis”
  • Cebuano: “Port Louis District”
  • Cebuano: “Port Louis”
  • Central Kurdish: “پۆرت لویس”
  • Chechen: “Порт-Луи”
  • Chinese: “Port Louis”
  • Chinese: “路易港”
  • Chuvash: “Порт Луи”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Port Lui”
  • Croatian: “Port Louis”
  • Czech: “Port Louis”
  • Danish: “Port Louis”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Port Louis”
  • Dutch: “Port Louis”
  • Eastern Mari: “Порт-Луи”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بورت لويس”
  • Esperanto: “Port-Luiso”
  • Esperanto: “Portluiso”
  • Estonian: “Port Louis”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Port Louis”
  • Finnish: “Port Louis”
  • French: “Port Louis”
  • French: “Port-Louis”
  • Ga: “Port Louis”
  • Galician: “Port Louis, Port Louis”
  • Galician: “Port Louis”
  • Georgian: “პორტ-ლუი”
  • German: “Port Louis”
  • Greek: “Πορ Λουί”
  • Greek: “Πορ-Λουί”
  • Guarani: “Port Louis”
  • Gujarati: “પોર્ટ લુઇસ”
  • Haitian: “Pò Lwi”
  • Haitian: “Pò-Loui”
  • Haitian: “Pòlwi”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Port Louis”
  • Hausa: “Port Louis”
  • Hebrew: “פור לואי”
  • Hindi: “पोर्ट लुइ”
  • Hindi: “पोर्ट लुई”
  • Hungarian: “Port Louis”
  • Icelandic: “Port Lois”
  • Icelandic: “Port Louis”
  • Ido: “Port Louis”
  • Ido: “Port-Louis”
  • Inari Sami: “Port Louis”
  • Indonesian: “Port Louis”
  • Interlingua: “Port Louis”
  • Interlingue: “Port Louis”
  • Irish: “Port Louis”
  • Italian: “Port Louis”
  • Japanese: “ポートルイス”
  • Japanese: “ポール＝ルイ”
  • Japanese: “ポールルイ”
  • Javanese: “Port Louis”
  • Kannada: “ಪೋರ್ಟ್ ಲೂಯಿಸ್”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Port-lui”
  • Kazakh: “Порт-Луи қаласы”
  • Kazakh: “Порт-Луи”
  • Kirghiz: “Порт-Луи”
  • Korean: “포트루이스”
  • Kotava: “Port-Louis”
  • Latin: “Portus Ludovici”
  • Latvian: “Luī osta”
  • Latvian: “Polvi”
  • Latvian: “Porlvi”
  • Latvian: “Portluī”
  • Latvian: “Portluija”
  • Ligurian: “Port Louis”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Port Louis”
  • Lithuanian: “Port Luisas”
  • Livvi: “Port Lui”
  • Lombard: “Port Louis”
  • Luxembourgish: “Port Louis”
  • Macedonian: “Порт Луис”
  • Macedonian: “Порт Луј”
  • Malagasy: “Port Louis”
  • Malay: “Port Louis”
  • Malayalam: “പോർട്ട് ലൂയിസ്”
  • Maltese: “Port Louis”
  • Marathi: “पोर्ट लुइस”
  • Marathi: “पोर्ट लुईस”
  • Mazanderani: “پورت لوییس”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Port Louis”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Port Louis”
  • Minangkabau: “Port Louis”
  • Mingrelian: “პორტ-ლუი”
  • Mongolian: “Порт Луйс”
  • Mongolian: “Порт-Луи”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “پور لوي”
  • Northern Frisian: “Port Louis”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Port Louis”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Port Louis”
  • Norwegian: “Port Louis”
  • Novial: “Port Louis”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Port Louis”
  • Oriya: “ପୋର୍ଟ ଲୁଇସ”
  • Ossetian: “Порт-Луи”
  • Panjabi: “ਪੋਰਟ ਲੂਈ”
  • Papiamento: “Port Louis”
  • Persian: “پورت‌لوئیس”
  • Piemontese: “Port Luis”
  • Polish: “Port Louis”
  • Portuguese: “Port Louis”
  • Portuguese: “Porto Luís, Maurícia”
  • Portuguese: “Porto Luís”
  • Pushto: “پورت لویس”
  • Romanian: “Port Louis”
  • Russian: “Порт-Луи”
  • Santali: “ᱯᱚᱨᱴ ᱞᱩᱭᱤᱥ”
  • Sardinian: “Port Louis”
  • Scots: “Port Louis”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Port Louis”
  • Serbian: “Порт Луис”
  • Serbian: “Порт Луј”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Port Louis”
  • Shona: “Port Louis”
  • Silesian: “Port Louis”
  • Sindhi: “پورٽ لوئس”
  • Sinhala: “පොර්ට් ලුවිස්”
  • Sinhala: “පෝට් ලුවීස්”
  • Sinhala: “පෝර්ට් ලුවිස්”
  • Slovak: “Port Louis”
  • Slovenian: “Port Louis”
  • Somali: “Bort Lois”
  • Southern Sotho: “Port Louis”
  • Spanish: “Port Louis”
  • Spanish: “Puerto Louis”
  • Swahili: “Port Louis”
  • Swedish: “Port Louis”
  • Tagalog: “Port Louis”
  • Tajik: “Порт-Луи”
  • Tajik: “Порт-Луӣ”
  • Tamil: “போர்ட் லூயிஸ்”
  • Tatar: “Порт-Луи”
  • Telugu: “పోర్ట్ లుయీస్”
  • Telugu: “పోర్ట్ లూయీ”
  • Thai: “พอร์ตลูอิส”
  • Thai: “พอร์ตหลุยส์”
  • Tibetan: “ལོ་ཡི་སི་གྲུ་ཁ།”
  • Tumbuka: “Port Louis”
  • Turkish: “Port Louis”
  • Turkmen: “Port-Lui”
  • Udmurt: “Порт-Луи”
  • Ukrainian: “Порт-Луї”
  • Urdu: “پورٹ لوئس”
  • Uzbek: “Port-lui”
  • Uzbek: “Port-Lui”
  • Venetian: “Port Louis”
  • Veps: “Port Lui”
  • Vietnamese: “Port Louis”
  • Volapük: “Port Louis”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Port Louis”
  • Welsh: “Port Louis”
  • Western Frisian: “Port Louis”
  • Western Panjabi: “پورٹ لوئی”
  • Wu Chinese: “路易港”
  • Yoruba: “Port Louis”
  • Yue Chinese: “路易港”
  • Zulu: “i-Port Louis”
  • “Port Louis”

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