{"id":20965,"date":"2025-01-24T11:35:46","date_gmt":"2025-01-24T06:05:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=20965"},"modified":"2025-04-06T08:51:14","modified_gmt":"2025-04-06T03:21:14","slug":"mauritius","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/mauritius\/","title":{"rendered":"Key Facts about Mauritius"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>Mauritius Latest News<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>The Indian Navy\u2019s INS Sarvekshak completed the final phase of the hydrographic survey of Mauritius covering an extensive area of over 25,000 square nautical miles.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>About Mauritius<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is an <strong>island country<\/strong> in the <strong>Indian Ocean<\/strong>, located <strong>off the eastern coast of Africa.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It occupies a total area of 2,040 sq. km.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Mauritius\u00a0Capital: Port Louis<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>One of the smallest countries<\/strong> in the world, this island nation can be found just <strong>east of Madagascar<\/strong> in the middle of the Indian Ocean.<\/li>\n<li>It is made up of the <strong>main island of Mauritius and several outlying islands,<\/strong> like Ambre Island, Est Island, Cerfs Island, Benitiers Island, etc.\n<ul>\n<li>The <strong>island of Mauritius is a volcanic island<\/strong> formed by volcanic activity around 8 million years ago.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>highest peak<\/strong> in Mauritius, the 828 m tall <strong>Mount Piton,<\/strong> is located in the southwest of the plateau.<\/li>\n<li>The chief water source is <strong>Lake Vacoas.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Mauritius Climate<\/strong>: The climate is <strong>maritime subtropical<\/strong>, with fairly uniform temperatures throughout the year.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Mauritius Languages<\/strong>: Mauritius <strong>national language is English, but the majority<\/strong> of the population <strong>speak Creole or French<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Independence<\/strong>: Mauritius <strong>gained independence from the UK in 1968<\/strong> as a Parliamentary Republic and has remained a stable democracy.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Mauritius\u00a0Government<\/strong>: Mauritius is a <strong>republic with one legislative house<\/strong>; the head of state is the president, and the head of government is the prime minister.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>It is a <strong>member o<\/strong>f the <strong>Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA<\/strong>) and the <strong>Southern African Development Community (SADC<\/strong>).<\/li>\n<li><strong>Both the Indian Ocean Rim Association<\/strong> and the <strong>Indian Ocean Commission have their headquarters in Mauritius.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><strong>Mauritius Population<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Approximately <strong>two-thirds<\/strong> of the population is of <strong>Indo-Pakistani origin<\/strong>, most of whom are descendants of indentured labourers brought to work in the sugar industry during the 19th and early 20th centuries.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>About <strong>one-fourth of the population is Creole (of mixed French and African descent<\/strong>), and there are small numbers of people of Chinese and Franco-Mauritian descent.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><strong>Mauritius FAQs<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q1<\/strong>. Why is Mauritius called Mini India?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>.Owing to the large Indian-origin population of the country, Mauritius is sometimes referred to as &#8216;mini India&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q2<\/strong>. Is Mauritius part of Africa or India?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. Considered part of Africa geographically, Mauritius has friendly relations with other African states in the region, particularly South Africa, by far its largest continental trading partner<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q3<\/strong>. Is a Mauritius visa free for Indians?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. There is no visa requirement for Indian ordinary passport holders visiting Mauritius for any purpose.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q4<\/strong>. How far is Mauritius from India by flight?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. Mauritius is approximately 4,700 kilometers (2,920 miles) from India, depending on the specific locations being measured.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/indian-navy-completes-hydrographic-survey-of-25000-sq-nautical-miles-of-mauritius\/article69132555.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">TH<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mauritius is an island country in the Indian Ocean, located off the eastern coast of Africa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":20966,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-20965","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20965\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}