Mauritius
Mauritius (officially Republic of Mauritius) is a country in Eastern Africa, with its capital at Port Louis, and is home to roughly 1.2M people.
Its official languages are English, French, Mauritian Creole; the currency in circulation is Mauritian rupee (₨); people from here are called Mauritian.
- »The dodo lived only on Mauritius and was extinct within decades of European arrival.
Mauritius shares no land border with anything, so every approach is by sea or air. The closest other territories on file are Madagascar (1,141 km), Seychelles (1,750 km) and Comoros (1,796 km), measured centre to centre.
Port Louis was founded by the French in the 18th century as a harbour on the sheltered north-west coast, and is named after Louis XV.
1,907 km² (736 sq mi), 172nd largest of 198 countries and territories on file.
Population 1,245,779, 157th of 198 on file. That averages 653 per km² (1,692 per sq mi).
Four horizontal bands of red, blue, yellow and green. The unusual four-stripe design stands for independence, the ocean, the light of freedom and the island's vegetation.