Everything you need to know about Mauritius
Explore Mauritius from Port Louis and the cool central plateau to the lagoons, mountains and crater lakes of the main island. Learn its nine districts, place sixteen cities and towns, find six rivers and two lakes and discover twelve heritage and natural sights.
Read it, then make it stick
Geography of Mauritius
A volcanic island ringed by reefs, with a cool central plateau.
Know the shape of the country
Three maps introduce the districts, cities and waters of the main island of Mauritius, with a separate sights lesson for twelve heritage places and landscapes. Rivers such as the Grand River South East and the Tamarin River run to the coast, while Grand Bassin and Mare aux Vacoas lie in the highlands.
Heritage and landscapes of Mauritius
Essential ยท Mountain and World Heritage Site
Le Morne Brabant
A basalt mountain above a lagoon, inscribed by UNESCO in 2008 and associated with people who escaped slavery.
Explore twelve historic places and natural landscapes, from Le Morne Brabant and Aapravasi Ghat to the Seven Coloured Earths and the sacred lake of Ganga Talao. Pins mark approximate learning locations. Essential marks starting points for learning; Detour adds geographic context. These labels are not travel or access recommendations. Select a pin to read about a place, then play the map and find them all.
Take French with you
Greetings and politeness
Hello, please, thank you, sorry: the ten openers everything else builds on.
Keep going one country deeper
When you have had your fill of Mauritius, the countries in white have a guide like this one, and every other has maps of its own.
Africa
- Algeria
- Angola
- Benin
- Botswana
- Burkina Faso
- Burundi
- Cameroon
- Central African Republic
- Chad
- Cรดte dโIvoire
- Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Djibouti
- Egypt
- Equatorial Guinea
- Eritrea
- Ethiopia
- Gabon
- Ghana
- Guinea
- Guinea-Bissau
- Kenya
- Liberia
- Libya
- Madagascar
- Mali
- Mauritania
- Morocco
- Mozambique
- Namibia
- Niger
- Nigeria
- Republic of the Congo
- Rwanda
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- Sierra Leone
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- South Africa
- South Sudan
- Sudan
- Tanzania
- Togo
- Tunisia
- Uganda
- Western Sahara
- Zambia
- Zimbabwe
Europe
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- Kosovo
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- Netherlands
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- Northern Cyprus
- Norway
- Poland
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- San Marino
- Serbia
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- Slovenia
- Spain
- Sweden
- Switzerland
- Tรผrkiye
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- United Kingdom
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Asia
- Afghanistan
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- Turkmenistan
- United Arab Emirates
- Uzbekistan
- Vietnam
- Yemen