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Capital | Port Louis |
Government | Parliamentary Democracy |
Currency | Mauritian rupee (MUR) |
Area | 2,040 km2 |
Population | 1,230,602 (July 2006 est.) |
Language | English (official), Mauritian Creole, French, Hindi, Urdu, Hakka, Bhojpuri |
Religion | Hindu 52%, Christian 28.3% (Roman Catholic 26%, Protestant 2.3%), Muslim 16.6%, other 3.1% |
Electricity | 230V/50Hz (European or UK plug) |
Calling Code | +230 |
Internet TLD | .mu |
Time Zone | UTC+4 |
Mauritius (French: L’île Maurice, Mauritian Creole: Maurice) is a small, multicultural island in the Indian Ocean, east of Madagascar and southeast of the Seychelles. Mauritius also controls Rodrigues Island and the remote, sparsely populated Agalega and Cargados Garayos (Saint Brandon) islands.