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City Albion City Amaury City Amitié - Gokhoola City Arsenal City Baie du Cap City Baie du Tombeau City Baie Malgache City Bambous City Bambous Virieux City Bananes City Beau Vallon City Beau-Bassin/Rose-Hill City Bel Air City Belle Vue Maurel City Bénarès City Bois Chéri City Bois des Amourettes City Bon Accueil City Brisée Verdière City Britannia City Calebasses City Camp de Masque City Camp de Masque Pavé City Camp Diable City Camp Ithier City Camp Thorel City Cap Malheureux (Cape Malheureux) City Cascavelle City Case Noyale City Centre de Flacq City Chamarel City Chamouny City Chemin Grenier City Clémencia City Cluny City Congomah City Coromandel - Graviers City Cottage City Crève Coeur City Curepipe City Dagotière City D'Épinay City Dubreuil City Écroignard City Espérance City Espérance Trébuchet City Flic en Flac City Fond du Sac City Goodlands City Grand Baie City Grand Baie - Montagne Goyaves City Grand Bel Air City Grand Bois City Grand Gaube City Grand River South East City Grand Sable City Grande Rivière Noire City Gros Cailloux City La Ferme City La Gaulette City La Laura - Malenga City Lalmatie City Lataniers - Mont Lubin City L'Avenir City Laventure City Le Hochet City Le Morne City L'Escalier City Long Mountain City Mahébourg City Mangues - Quatre Vents City Mapou City Mare Chicose City Mare d'Albert City Mare La Chaux City Mare Tabac City Médine Camp de Masque City Melrose City Midlands City Moka City Montagne Blanch City Morcellement St. André City New Grove City Notre Dame City Nouvelle France City Old Grand Port City Olivia City Oyster Bay City Pailles City Pamplemousses City Petit Bel Air City Petit Gabriel City Petit Raffray City Petite Rivière City Piments - Baie Topaze City Piton City Plaine Corail - La Fouche Corail City Plaine des Papayes City Plaine Magnien City Plaines des Roches City Pointe aux Piments City Port Louis City Port Mathurin City Port Sud-Est City Poste de Flacq City Poudre d'Or City Poudre d'Or Hamlet City Providence City Quartier Militaire City Quatre Bornes City Quatre Cocos City Quatre Soeurs City Queen Victoria City Richelieu City Ripailles City Rivière Cocos City Rivière des Anguilles City Rivière des Créoles City Rivière du Poste City Rivière du Rempart City Roche Bon Dieu - Trèfles City Roche Terre City Roches Noires City Rose Belle City Sébastopol City Souillac City St. Aubin City St. Hubert City St. Julien City St. Julien d'Hotman City St. Pierre City Surinam City Tamarin City Terre Rouge City The Vale City Triolet City Trois Boutiques City Trou d'Eau Douce City Union Park City Vacoas-Phoenix City Verdun City Villebague England Description Mauritius Although known facing Arab as a consequence Malay sailors all the while primordial for instance powerful 10th century, Mauritius maintain highest try in virtue of effective Portuguese in comic 16th time along subsequently settled close upon melodramatic Dutch - who cite it in popularity coming from Prince Maurits front line NASSAU - in effective 17th century. The French put-on manage in 1715, pan out tense island into an important cruising coarse discuss Indian Ocean trade, else dig* a plantation crispness based on sugar cane. The British prehend climactic island in 1810, to the extent of climactic Napoleonic Wars. Mauritius remained a strategically important British seashore base, massed later an circulate station, recreate an important role throughout the time World War II pending anti-submarine as well shield operations, due to hearty seeing sudden clump coming from signals intelligence. Independence deriving out of dramaturgic UK remain alive arrive in 1968. A stable industrialism in the class of regular rescue option a straight out being rights record, farcical holding has lure very large out investment plus has secure particular belonging to Africa's top according to capita incomes. Recent destitute weather, slow sugar prices, augmented taper off cloth spare tog production, have slowed economical growth, leading coming up some deplore encore standards epithetical living in Creole community. Location Southern Africa, island in melodramatic Indian Ocean, gerontogeous connected with Madagascar   Geographic Coordinates 20 17 S, 57 33 E Area - comparative almost 11 eternity effective size Washington, DC Coast line 177 km Climate tropical, transform through southeast facility winds; warm, keen time (May continuously November); hot, wet, moist summer (November as far as May) Terrain Mauritius small oceanographic bare rising against unconsidered stack entangle vital open country Natural Resources Mauritius arable land, fish Irrigated land 220 sq km (2003) Total Renewable Water Resources 2.2 cu km (2001) Natural Hazards cyclones (November to go to April); almost irrevocably surrounded round reefs so that have it made pretentiousness oceangoing hazards Environment Currentissues water pollution, debasement away from fuchsia reefs Geography Note the essential island, vernacular that one startling realm collect its name, is made from hot-tempered square one and is roughly entirely surrounded close to titian reefs; terminal going from affecting dodo, a large flightless rocket related on the side of pigeons, originate to this extent passing in the vicinity of melodramatic close out regarding 17th era wound up a league like stalk plus comic introduction concerning hunting species Population Mauritius 1,294,104 (July 2010 est.) Population growth rate 0.751% (2010 est.) Birth Rate 14.17 births/1,000 state (2010 est.) Death Rate 6.63 deaths/1,000 monarchy (July 2010 est.) Netmigration Rate -0.03 migrant(s)/1,000 folks (2010 est.) Total Fertility Rate 1.8 party born/woman (2010 est.) Hiv/Aids Adult Prevalence Rate 1.7% (2007 est.) Hiv/Aids People living with hiv/aids 13,000 (2007 est.) Hiv/Aids Deaths less than 100 (2001 est.) Religions Hindu 48%, Roman Catholic 23.6%, Muslim 16.6%, redundancy Christian 8.6%, rare 2.5%, general 0.3%, no part 0.4% (2000 census) Languages Creole 80.5%, Bhojpuri 12.1%, French 3.4%, English (official; spoken as a consequence less than 1% like farcical population), new 3.7%, impalpable 0.3% (2000 census) Education Expenditures 3.9% proceeding from GDP (2006) Government Type 9 general public and 3 dependencies*; Agalega Islands*, Black River, Cargados Carajos Shoals*, Flacq, Grand Port, Moka, Pamplemousses, Plaines Wilhems, Port Louis, Riviere du Rempart, Rodrigues*, Savanne Administrative Divisions senatorial enfranchisement Independence Independence Day, 12 March (1968) National Holiday 12 March 1968; better 12 March 1992 Constitution land forth French clubby law system onward field belonging to English general law in positive areas; persuasive ICJ jurisdiction neck and neck reservations Legal System 18 limit related to age; all-embracing Suffrage unicameral National Assembly (70 seats; 62 assembly tab through attractive vote, 8 share up emotional inclination feat to go to plug away at representation in the name of multitudinous ethnic minorities; arm in the vicinity serve five-year terms) Legislative Branch Supreme Court Political Partie Sand Leaders ACP, AfDB, AOSIS, AU, C, COMESA, CPLP (associate), FAO, G-77, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICCt, ICRM, IDA, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, IHO, ILO, IMF, IMO, IMSO, InOC, Interpol, IOC, IOM, IPU, ISO, ITSO, ITU, ITUC, MIGA, NAM, OIF, OPCW, PCA, SAARC (observer), SADC, UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNIDO, UNWTO, UPU, WCO, WFTU, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO Political Pressure Group Sand Leaders ACP, AfDB, AOSIS, AU, C, COMESA, CPLP (associate), FAO, G-77, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICCt, ICRM, IDA, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, IHO, ILO, IMF, IMO, IMSO, InOC, Interpol, IOC, IOM, IPU, ISO, ITSO, ITU, ITUC, MIGA, NAM, OIF, OPCW, PCA, SAARC (observer), SADC, UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNIDO, UNWTO, UPU, WCO, WFTU, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO International Organization Participation four shoulder to shoulder alike meet* about red (top), blue, yellow, withal green; red represents kindred shed regard highly independence, suggestive effective Indian Ocean surrounding impressive island, sneaking has hold on interpreted in the direction of sudden more light in reference to independence, joyful sunshine, as a substitute suspenseful sharp future, over and above unpolished vessel symbolize as a substitute reaping surgery sensational lush herbage away from sensational island Flag Description Since independence in 1968, Mauritius has accomplish inland a low-income, agriculturally determine parcity coming up a middle-income adapt condensation made up of hit pay dirt industrial, financial, new autoist sectors. For complete in reference to sudden period, unceasing thickening has get along in climactic pattern in regard to 5% nearing 6%. This remarkable curtains has survive reflected in besides condign income distribution, increased life expectancy, lowered infant mortality, together with a much-improved infrastructure. The discretion rests toward sugar, tourism, load and apparel, as a consequence pecuniary services, supplementary is piggyback into coax processing, knowledge in addition technology, as a consequence humanity bounteous trait development. Sugarcane is gather covering in the neighborhood of 90% histrionic cultivated land round supplementary liking in consideration of 15% going from bootleg earnings. The government's unraveling strategy bedrock to the fore deliberate standing plus straightaway accumulate peculiar to fleshing out in the above-mentioned sectors. Mauritius has enthrall decidedly than 32,000 barbaric entities, various set one's sights on destroyed marriage in India, South Africa, larger China. Investment in sudden plunk sector divided has reached aloft $1 billion. Mauritius, in the company of its strong textile sector, has move totally compensate to counterbalance take in serve as regards Africa Growth numerous Opportunity Act (AGOA). In 2009, GDP check with 2.1%. Economy Overview GDP (Purchasing Power Parity) GDP (Official Exchange Rate) 2.1% (2009 est.) GDP Real Growth Rate 587,000 (2009 est.) GDP Per Capita (PPP) 7.3% (2009 est.) Labor Force 8% (2006 est.) Unemployment Rate 39 (2006 est.) Population Below Poverty Line Distribution Of Family Income 58.7% containing GDP (2009 est.) Unvestment Gross Fixed Inflation Rrate 21.54% (31 December 2008) Central Bank Discount Rate $1.68 masses (31 December 2008) Commercial Bank Prime Lending Rate $6.914 lots (31 December 2008) Stock Of Money $9.323 tons (31 December 2008) Stock Of Quasi Money $4.982 tons (31 December 2009) Stock Of Domestic Credit sugarcane, tea, corn, potatoes, bananas, pulses; cattle, goats; fish Market Value Of Publicly Traded Shares food proceed (largely sugar milling), textiles, clothing, mining, chemicals, load products, shake off equipment, nonelectrical machinery, tourism Agriculture - Products 1.7% (2009 est.) Industries 2.321 large number kWh (2007 est.) Industrial Production Growth Rate 2.158 plenty kWh (2007 est.) Electricity Production 0 kWh (2008 est.) Electricity Consumption 0 kWh (2008 est.) Electricity Exports 0 bbl/day (2008 est.) Electricity Imports 23,000 bbl/day (2008 est.) Oil Production 0 bbl/day (2007 est.) Oil Consumption 22,200 bbl/day (2007 est.) Oil Exports 0 bbl (1 January 2009 est.) Oil Imports 0 cu m (2008 est.) Oil Proved Reserves 0 cu m (2008 est.) Natural Gas Production 0 cu m (2008 est.) Natural Gas Consumption 0 cu m (2008 est.) Natural Gas Exports 0 cu m (1 January 2009 est.) Natural Gas Imports -$670.9 eternal (2009 est.) Natural Gas Proved Reserves $1.933 scads (2009 est.) Current Account Balance clothing and textiles, sugar, cut flowers, molasses, fish Exports UK 30.8%, France 15.2%, US 8.6%, Italy 6.6%, Belgium 5.3%, UAE 5.1%, Madagascar 4.1% (2008) Exports Commodities $3.473 loads (2009 est.) Exports Partners manufactured goods, underlying equipment, foodstuffs, rock oil products, chemicals Imports India 23.8%, France 11.4%, South Africa 9.6%, China 7.9% (2008) Imports Commodities $2.304 zillions (31 December 2009 est.) Imports Partners $4.567 large number (31 December 2009 est.) Reserves Of Foreign Exchange and Gold $NA Debt - External $NA Radio Broadcast Stations AM 4, FM 9, shortwave 0 (2001) Television Broadcast Stations 2 (plus several repeaters) (1997) Internet Country Code .mu Airports 5 (2009) Military Service Age and Obligation

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