Mauritius

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This page was generated on 20 September 2026 at 12:27 UTC. The bundled facts on it were retrieved between 13 July 2026 and 8 August 2026. Aletheia's source record for emergency numbers records no retrieval date, so it is not covered by that range.

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Country outlines on Aletheia come from Natural Earth's 1:10-million public-domain boundary set, made by volunteer cartographers and supported by NACIS. Where a border is disputed, the line drawn is one cartographic convention among the competing claims — not a settled fact, and not Aletheia taking a side. Disputes we can source are listed rather than hidden inside the outline.

Locator map of Mauritius. Mauritius is filled; surrounding countries are drawn in a dimmer tone and nothing is hidden behind them. No contested area from this source overlaps it. 1 part of it is too small to draw at this scale and is not shown. View spans 54.7°E to 65.4°E and 21.4°S to 9.4°S. Boundaries: Natural Earth (public domain), 1:10m.

Mauritius is filled. The one other country reaching this view is drawn in a dimmer tone — dimmed, not hidden. Unpainted ground is where no boundary in this dataset falls: open water, or land none of them claims.

Nothing is hatched because no disputed area in this source overlaps Mauritius. That is not a finding that none exists — the source says plainly that its list is not exhaustive.

One part of Mauritius in this source is smaller than a pixel at this scale and is not drawn. Nothing larger than that is missing, and it has not been enlarged to make it visible.

Boundaries: Natural Earth (public domain), 1:10m. Disputed areas: Natural Earth (public domain). Equirectangular projection, standard parallel 15.4°S — distances and areas away from that parallel are stretched. View: 54.7°E–65.4°E, 21.4°S–9.4°S.

Disputed areas

none listedNo disputed area in this source overlaps Mauritius. That is not a finding that none exists — the source says plainly that its list is not exhaustive.

  1. News sources

    1 source from Mauritiusin Aletheia’s registry. Coverage here is thin.

    • ION News

    sources not yet assessed

  2. Official alerts

    no source connectedAletheia's alerts screen has no entry for this country, so no official warning source is connected here. That is a limit on our coverage, not a statement that this country issues no warnings.

  3. National legislature

    National Assembly of Mauritius ↗

    Wikidata P856 · authoritative source, but our checker could not reach it (many government sites block automated requests)

  4. Local time

    One time zone.

    The current time needs JavaScript, so it is not shown here rather than shown wrong.

  5. Conditions at the capital

    Right now in Port Louis

    26°C / 78°FMainly clearwind 19 km/h / 12 mph

    Checked 12 minutes ago

    Conditions at the capital, not across the country.

    Weather from Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0)

    Port Louis, 2026-09-20Sunrise 6:01 AM · sunset 6:05 PM12h 04m of daylightWaxing gibbous, 65% lit

  6. At a glance

    ISO code
    MUSuncited
    Driving side
    leftcited
    Mains voltage
    230 Vcited
    Capital
    Port Louisuncited
    Official languages
    English, Frenchuncited
    Plug types
    Type C (Europlug), Type G (BS 1363)cited · letters are the IEC classification
    Official website
    govmu.org ↗We could not reach this from our checker. Many government sites refuse automated requests, so this is not a report that the site is down.From the source's "official website" statement, kept here because the site is a government portal. We have not tested whether it loads.uncited

  7. Population and economy

    Population

    Population of Mauritius: the UN's 2025 estimate is 1,243,741 people. The page shows that figure carried forward at about 5.6 fewer a day. It is a projection, not a count, and the figure shown changes as time passes.

    Not a count. This is the UN's 2025 estimate carried forward at the rate implied by the two most recent published years — arithmetic, not a measurement. Nobody counts a country continuously, and the true figure right now is unknown.

    Where this number comes from
    Base figure
    1,243,741 people
    For the year
    2025 — a mid-year estimate, so it describes 1 July 2025
    Compared with
    1,245,779 people in 2024
    Rate applied
    about 5.6 fewer a day (-2,039 a year)
    How that rate was found
    The difference between the 2024 and 2025 estimates, divided by the time between them. It is our arithmetic on two published figures — the source does not publish this rate.
    Carried forward
    0 days beyond the base figure's date
    Source
    UN World Population Prospects and national statistical offices, compiled by the World Bank · source updated 2026-07-13
    The source's own definition
    The values shown are midyear estimates.

    THIS NUMBER IS NOT A MEASUREMENT, AND ITS MOVEMENT IS NOT NEWS. No country counts its population continuously. A census is periodic, and every figure between censuses — including the estimate this starts from — is a projection. What you are watching is that projection's trend applied to the clock on your phone. It moves because time passes, not because anyone was born or died. Treat the digits beyond the first few as arithmetic rather than knowledge: the trend is real, the precision is not.

    Population
    1,243,7412025
    GDP
    16,157,804,4922025
    GDP per capita
    12,9912025
    Life expectancy at birth
    73.8 years2024
    Exports
    65.0%2025
    Imports
    74.9%2025

    Compiled by the World Bank from: World Population Prospects, United Nations (UN), uri: https://population.un.org/wpp/, publisher: UN Population Division · source updated 2026-07-13 · each figure is dated because the most recent value was chosen by us, not by the source

  8. In this country's own words

    It's a pleasure
    the state's official mottovia Wikidata (CC0)
    L’étoile et la clé de l’océan Indien
    the state's official mottovia Wikidata (CC0)

    Also recorded in Latin and Welsh.

    Founded
    1968
    National anthem
    Motherland

    Everything in this section is quoted, with its source. Aletheia does not write about a country's history, culture or religion in its own words — where there is nothing to quote, there is no section.

  9. World Heritage Sites

    2 World Heritage Sites

    1. Aapravasi Ghat · inscribed 2006
    2. Le Morne Brabant · inscribed 2008

    Register from Wikidata (CC0) · in inscription order · links go to UNESCO

  10. Emergency numbers

    • 112listed as: police
    • 114listed as: emergency medical services
    • 115listed as: fire department
    • 995listed as: fire department
    • 999listed as: police

    Shown in numerical order, which is not an order of priority.

    Listed by the source, mostly from ITU-T E.129. We have not dialled these numbers, and where a service is named it is the source's description rather than ours.

  11. Explore this country

  12. Regions

    First-level regions as GeoNames lists them, shown alphabetically · each page computes daylight at the region’s own coordinates

  13. Currency

    MUR

News coverage here is counted from Aletheia’s bundled source registry plus the sources the Host had admitted as of 2026-09-14. A source admitted since that date has not reached this page yet, so this is a floor rather than a total.

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