Population is about 1,265,711 people, the 159th largest of the 242 countries mapped here - roughly one in 6,065 of everyone alive.
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Mauritius
Republic of Mauritius
Seven seas (open ocean)
ยท Eastern Africa
0Population
2.04Kkmยฒ of land
$11.1KGDP / person
Port LouisCapital
- ISO codes
- MU ยท MUS
- Density
- 620 /kmยฒ
- Languages
- English, French, Mauritian Creole
- Currency
- Mauritian rupee (MUR)
- Dial code
- +230
- Internet domain
- .mu
- Time zones
- 1
- Coastline
- Has a coast
- Map centre
- 20.3000ยฐ S, 57.5660ยฐ E
- Demonym
- Mauritian
- UN region
- Africa ยท Eastern Africa
- Economy
- Developing region
- Income group
- Upper middle income
- Total GDP
- $14.05B
- Sovereignty
- Independent ยท UN member
- Borders
- None
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By the numbers
How Mauritius stacks up against all 242 mapped countries.
Population
159th
of 242 ยท 0.02% of world population
Land area
179th
of 242 ยท 0.00% of world land
GDP per person
99th
richest of 242 by output per person
Population density
18th
most crowded of 242
Ten facts about Mauritius
The first is hand-written; the rest are worked out from this country's own figures.
Covers 2,040 kmยฒ, making it the 179th largest country here - about 6.5 times the size of Malta.
Population density is about 620 people per kmยฒ.
The capital is Port Louis, at 20.17ยฐ S, 57.50ยฐ E, with a metropolitan population of about 595,491.
Has no land neighbours - it is an island nation, surrounded entirely by water.
Has its own coastline and direct access to the open sea.
Keeps a single time zone, Indian/Mauritius.
The currency is the Mauritian rupee (MUR, symbol โจ).
Has 3 official languages: English, French and Mauritian Creole.
Dials on +230 and uses the .mu internet domain.
Local time
Live, from PHP's IANA database.
Indian/Mauritius
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UTC+04:00
Cities
The largest places we hold coordinates for. Click a row to fly the map there.
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Port Louis
20.1666ยฐ S, 57.5000ยฐ E
595.49K