Map of Mauritius

Mauritius is located in Africa. Its territory lies in the southern and eastern hemispheres, centred near 20.3° S, 57.5° E. It is an island nation and shares no land borders with any other country, so every approach to it is made by sea or by air. Within Africa, a continent of 54 countries bordered by the Atlantic Ocean and the Indian Ocean, Mauritius is mapped here in full with its borders, capital and key facts.

Mauritius is an island state with no land borders. The nearest countries are reached across open water rather than over a shared frontier.

Mauritius covers about 2,040 km² (788 sq mi). That makes it the 171st-largest country in the world by area and the 51st-largest in Africa, larger by area than 3 of the continent’s 54 countries.

It is home to a population of roughly 1,243,741, the 157th-largest in the world and the 48th-largest in Africa, accounting for about 0.1% of the continent’s people. With that land area, Mauritius has an average population density of about 610 people per km². Among the 54 countries of Africa it stands 48th by population and 51st by area.

The seat of government is Port Louis, and the official currency is the Mauritian rupee (MUR, ₨), and the main official languages are English, French and Mauritian Creole. Traffic drives on the left, and the country observes the time zone UTC+04:00.

Mauritius carries the ISO country codes MU and MUS, dials on the international calling code +230 and uses the .mu internet domain.

Mauritius has no land neighbours. It is an island nation, so the countries nearest to it are reached across open water rather than over a shared border. Its position at 20.3° S, 57.5° E places it about 2,251 km from the equator, in the southern and eastern hemispheres, within the wider region of Africa.

The interactive map above is centred on 20.3° S, 57.5° E and opens at zoom level 8, framing Mauritius within Africa. A marker pin sits at the country’s approximate geographic centre; drag the map or use scroll and pinch to move from a regional overview down to the streets of Port Louis. The map is drawn from OpenStreetMap data, the same open dataset used across this site, so place names, roads and coastlines stay consistent from one country to the next.

Mauritius lies about 2,251 km from the equator, in the southern and eastern hemispheres of the globe. As an island, its full extent is best seen by zooming out to take in the surrounding sea.

Mauritius keeps a single standard time zone, UTC+04:00. That figure is the country’s offset from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), the modern reference that for everyday purposes matches Greenwich Mean Time, so local clocks sit +04:00 relative to UTC before any seasonal daylight saving change.

The official currency is the Mauritian rupee (MUR, ₨).

The official languages are English, French and Mauritian Creole, which is what appears on signs, documents and many of the place labels you will see on the map.

For practical reference, vehicles drive on the left-hand side of the road, the international dialling code is +230 and websites commonly use the .mu internet domain.

In short, Mauritius is an island nation in Africa, with no land borders. Its capital is Port Louis. Mauritius has a population of about 1,243,741 and covers around 2,040 km² (788 sq mi), ranking it 157th in the world by population and 171st by area. The interactive map, facts table and questions on this page bring those details together in one place for Mauritius.

The flag of Mauritius is composed of four equal horizontal bands of red, blue, yellow and green.

The flag of Mauritius is shown above as an emoji, rendered by your device’s own font; see it alongside every other nation on the flags of the world page.