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Mauritius

Capital: Port Louis

  • In the 2022 census about 90% of people said Mauritian Creole was their home language, with Bhojpuri and French also spoken.
  • The dodo was a flightless bird that lived only on Mauritius, and it was known to live nowhere else.
  • The Seven Coloured Earths at Chamarel are heaps of exposed rock that show seven colours in sunlight.
  • Le Morne Cultural Landscape is a 556 m basalt mountain on a peninsula largely enclosed by a lagoon, a UNESCO site since 2008.

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