Mauritius Facts

Name: Mauritius
Capital City: Port Louis (148,416 pop.)
Mauritius Population: 1,322,238 (2013 est.)
World Populations (all countries)
Currency: Mauritian rupee
(conversion rates)

50 mauritian rupees
Ethnicity: Indo-Mauritian 68%, Creole 27%, Sino-Mauritian 3%, Franco-Mauritian 2%
GDP total: $20.53 billion (2012 est.)
GDP per capita: $15,800 (2012 est.)
Land Sizes
Language: Creole 80.5%, Bhojpuri 12.1%, French 3.4%, English (official; spoken by less than 1% of the population), other 3.7%, unspecified 0.3%
Largest Cities: (by population) Port Louis, Vacoas, Curepipe, Quatre Bornes
Name: Named for Maurice of Nassau, the sovereign Prince of Orange from 1618
National Day: March 12
Religion: Hindu 48%, Roman Catholic 23.6%, Muslim 16.6%, other Christian 8.6%, other 2.5%, unspecified 0.3%, none 0.4%
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