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Mauritius

Global Sourcebook | Index | Properties

MAURITIUS
MAURITIUS

For supplementary information, see links to post office home pages here External, to postal code pages here External and to other personal name and addressing issues pages here External.

Table of Contents

Mauritius - Country information

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Local short name form

Official name

Area

Population

1 189 493 (2022) [1]

Capital

Currency

International telephone access code

230

ISO 3166 country codes

Car nationality plate code

MS

Internet country code

MU

GRC Country Code

MAT

Mauritius - Number format

   Note: This section last updated 17th May 2021

In French:

   1 234,45

(where , indicates the decimal separator and a space the thousands separator)

In English:

   1,234.45

(where . indicates the decimal separator and , the thousands separator)

In Morisyen:

   1 234.45

(where . indicates the decimal separator and a space the thousands separator)

Mauritius - Date and time formats

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   Note: This section last updated 17th May 2021
   dd/mm/yyyy
   14:32   

Mauritius - Languages

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English External is the official language, with some 3 000 speakers. Other languages are Bhojpuri External (330 000 speakers); Morisyen External (600 000 first-language and 200 000 second-language speakers); Tamil External (22 000 speakers) and Urdu External (64 000 speakers).

Mauritius - Company legal forms

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Mauritian company types include:

   Company limited by guarantee
   Foreign company
   General partnership
   Global business company 1 (GBC 1) (Offshore company)
   Global business company 2 (GBC 2) (International company)
   Limited partnership
   Private company limited by shares
   Sole proprietorship
   Trust
   Comprehensive tables of these strings can be acquired – see http://www.grcdi.nl/addresses.htm External

Mauritius - Example address format

   Note: This section last updated 20th August 2020

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Addresses are written in English and usually do not contain a house number – only the thoroughfare, settlement name and postal code. If the address does contain a building number, it is written in front of the street name, sometimes followed by a comma.

   A table containing information about the relevant position of elements within address blocks can be acquired External

Mauritius - Post office box

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This is written P.O. Box.

Mauritius - Postal codes

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   Note: This section last updated 19th November 2018

Mauritian postal codes (known locally as Post Code), introduced on 15th August 2014, contain five characters in the format 99999 or A9999. Each code covers a settlement or part of a larger settlement. The first digit indicates the district, the second and third the village council area and the final two digits the sub-locality.

Codes from a previous (trial) format with the format 999AA999 may be found.

   Metadata containing postal code formatting rules, exceptions and regular expressions can be acquired External

Mauritius - Postal code format graphic

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Mauritius - Postal code format

Mauritius - Postal code specifics

Mauritius - Postal code regular expression

\A([1-9]|A|R)\d{4,4})\Z

Mauritius - Postal code level of coverage

3

Mauritius - Postal code map

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Mauritius - Administrative districts

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   Note: This section last updated 19th November 2018

Mauritius has 9 districts External and 3 dependencies (shown in the list below using an asterisk):

District/Dependency Postal code first digit
Agalega Islands External * A
Black River/Rivière Noire External 9
Cargados Carajos External *  
Flacq External 4
Grand Port External 5
Moka External 8
Pamplemousses External 2
Plaines Wilhems External 7
Port Louis External 1
Rivière du Rempart External 3
Rodrigues External * R
Savanne External 6

Administrative districts graphic

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Telephone numbers in Mauritius

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   Note: This section last updated 21st April 2023

Telephone numbers in Mauritius have no area codes. Fixed geographic subscriber numbers have 7 digits when called from abroad. Mobile numbers have 8 digits and commence with 5 or 7 [2].

Properties with value Mauritius

References

  1. ^ citypopulation.de/en/mauritius/admin/ External 20240604
  2. ^ www.itu.int/dms_pub/itu-t/oth/02/02/T02020000880008PDFE.pdf External 20230421

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