Mauritius guide: sources and attribution Prepared 1 November 2026 Country, history, geography, districts, politics, people and economy overview: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mauritius https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geography_of_Mauritius https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Districts_of_Mauritius https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Mauritius https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics_of_Mauritius https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Mauritius https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Mauritius https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_of_Mauritius https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mauritian_Creole https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mauritian_cuisine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wildlife_of_Mauritius https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sega_(genre) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geet-Gawai District articles used for the map notes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_Louis_District https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamplemousses_District https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rivi%C3%A8re_du_Rempart_District https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flacq_District https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Port_District https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savanne_District https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plaines_Wilhems_District https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moka_District https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rivi%C3%A8re_Noire_District Districts and national outline: OCHA Common Operational Dataset, Mauritius subnational administrative boundaries (COD-AB, 2020 version 2, from the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Centre district boundaries of 2018), published on HDX, CC BY-IGO: https://data.humdata.org/dataset/cod-ab-mus Only the nine districts of the main island are used. The polygons are simplified and unioned to form the outline, which includes the small islets that the districts contain. The dataset also holds Rodrigues, Agaléga and Saint Brandon (Cargados Carajos). They are not drawn, so that the main island stays readable; the dataset's own note says the sovereignty of Saint Brandon is disputed, and the guide does not use that geometry. Boundaries are generalized educational references. Rivers and lakes: OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL 1.0, extracted from the Overpass API on 1 November 2026 for named waterways and water bodies on the main island: https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright Selected: Grand River North West, Grand River South East, Black River (shown as Rivière Noire), Tamarin River, Rivière du Poste de Flacq and Rivière la Chaux, with the Mare aux Vacoas reservoir and the Grand Bassin crater lake. Courses can contain gaps and the extract may omit short sections. Not navigation data. Names are checked against Wikipedia's list of rivers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_rivers_of_Mauritius City coordinates: OpenStreetMap place nodes, cross-checked against Wikipedia coordinate references and the district polygons. Pins mark approximate settlement centers, not municipal boundaries. City facts come from the Wikipedia articles for each place. Sights: Wikipedia articles and coordinate references for each sight, checked against the national outline. Cap Malheureux marks the church (Notre-Dame Auxiliatrice) and Vieux Grand Port marks the Frederik Hendrik Museum, both from OpenStreetMap. Park and landscape pins are representative points, not entrances or property boundaries. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Morne_Brabant https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aapravasi_Ghat https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_River_Gorges_National_Park https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Coloured_Earths https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganga_Talao https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_Seewoosagur_Ramgoolam_Botanical_Garden https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Champ_de_Mars_Racecourse https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trou_aux_Cerfs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamarind_Falls https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Pouce https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cap_Malheureux https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vieux_Grand_Port Reading: written from the Wikipedia articles above and checked against Wikivoyage's Mauritius guide, then edited for the Worldly reading format. Wikivoyage text is available under CC BY-SA 4.0: https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Mauritius Topic further-reading links accompany each topic in the guide data. Access context, checked 1 November 2026: https://www.gov.uk/foreign-travel-advice/mauritius Essential/Detour indicates learning order, not a travel recommendation. Hero: dronepicr, via Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Le_Morne_Peninsula_in_Mauritius_(53697779236).jpg Ten topic photographs already hosted at /images/facts-africa/mu/ are reused with their existing individual creator and Creative Commons credits: Geography, southwest coastline from above, dronepicr, CC BY 2.0: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Aerial_view_of_the_southwest_coastline_of_Mauritius_with_an_underwater_waterfall_(53696882152).jpg History, Aapravasi Ghat, Suyash Dwivedi, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Apravasi_Ghat_Mauritius_02.jpg Language, sign at the Mauritius Postal Museum, Benoît Prieur, CC0: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mauritius_Postal_Museum_-_sign.jpg Culture, a sega dancer, Lonelyplanet on the German Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0 de: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sega_Musik.jpg Economy, harvesting sugar cane, Hannes Grobe, AWI, CC BY-SA 2.5: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sugar_cane_mauritius_hg.jpg Politics, Parliament Building in Port Louis, Karsten Ratzke, CC0: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Port_Louis,_Parliament_Building.jpg Nature, a pink pigeon, gailhampshire from Cradley, Malvern, U.K, CC BY 2.0: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pink_Pigeon_(Nesoenas_mayeri),_Mauritius_(16810225975).jpg Food, dholl puri, S.M.Chalon, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mauritian_Dholl_puri_taken_by_Steph_Chalon.jpg Landmarks, Chamarel Falls, Martin Falbisoner, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chamarel_Falls_Mauritius_2.JPG People, Central Market in Port Louis, Didier Baertschiger from Genève, Suisse, CC BY-SA 2.0: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mauritius_-_Port_Louis_(Central_Market)_(17118303459).jpg