Mauritius
Names and codes: GeoNames, CC BY 4.0 · Boundary: Natural Earth, public domain · Refresh date not recorded · Sources and licenses
Codes and identifiers
- ISO alpha-2
- MU
- ISO alpha-3
- MUS
- ISO numeric
- 480
- FIPS 10-4
- MP
- GeoNames ID
- 934292
Key facts
- Capital
- Port Louis
- Area
- 2,040 km²
- Population
- 1,265,303
- Currency
- Rupee (MUR)
- Calling code
- +230
- Top-level domain
- .mu
- Official languages
- en-MU,bho,fr
Continent
- Name
- Africa
- Code
- AF
- In this dataset
- 58 countries
Location
- Latitude
- -20.3
- Longitude
- 57.58333
- Min latitude
- -20.51734791499996
- Min longitude
- 56.524180535000085
- Max latitude
- -10.32390715899993
- Max longitude
- 63.49390709700003
Boundary
The API call behind this page
Request
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" \
"https://geosearch.dev/v1/countries/MU?fields=iso_code,iso3_code,name,capital,population,area_sq_km,currency_code,continent_code"Response
{
"data": {
"area_sq_km": 2040,
"capital": "Port Louis",
"continent_code": "AF",
"currency_code": "MUR",
"iso3_code": "MUS",
"iso_code": "MU",
"name": "Mauritius",
"population": 1265303
}
}Formatted for reading. The API returns the same JSON on one line.
Other endpoints for this country
/v1/countries/MU/regions/v1/cities?country=MU/v1/postal-codes?country=MU/v1/timezones?country=MU
Name in other languages
- Arabic
- موريشيوس
- Chinese
- 毛里求斯
- English
- Mauritius
- French
- Maurice
- German
- Mauritius
- Hindi
- मॉरीशस
- Italian
- Mauritius
- Japanese
- モーリシャス
- Korean
- 모리셔스
- Portuguese
- Maurício
- Russian
- Маврикий
- Spanish
- Mauricio
- Total language variants
- 139
The API returns any of them with ?lang=.
Time zones
| IANA ID | UTC offset | DST offset |
|---|---|---|
| Indian/Mauritius | UTC+04:00 | UTC+04:00 |
First-level administrative regions
- Plaines Wilhems District
- Flacq District
- Pamplemousses District
- Port Louis District
- Grand Port District
- Rivière du Rempart District
- Moka District
- Savanne District
- Black River District
- Rodrigues
- Agalega Islands
- Cargados Carajos
12 of 12 shown, largest first
Largest cities
| City | Population |
|---|---|
| Port Louis | 155,226 |
| Vacoas | 115,289 |
| Beau Bassin-Rose Hill | 111,355 |
| Curepipe | 78,618 |
| Quatre Bornes | 77,308 |
| Triolet | 24,361 |
| Goodlands | 21,063 |
| Bel Air Rivière Sèche | 18,036 |
| Bambous | 17,818 |
| Centre de Flacq | 17,710 |
Coverage in this dataset
- Cities
- 561
- First-level regions
- 12
- Postal codes
- 0
- Name languages
- 139
- Boundary polygon
- Yes
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