Mauritius
Capital: Port Louis · East Africa & Horn
Indian Ocean crossroads whose Creole, Indian, African, Chinese and European heritages fused into sega music and a plural island culture.
Ethnic communities
- Mauritian CreolesAfro-Malagasy descendants; keepers of sega tipik
- Indo-MauritiansDescendants of indentured laborers via Aapravasi Ghat
More communities of Mauritius
- Hindu communities — Bhojpuri-rooted majority of temple festivals
- Muslim communities — Trading families of the port and plains
- Tamil communities — Cavadee fire-walking devotional culture
- Telugu & Marathi folk — Distinct South Asian heritage streams
- Sino-Mauritians — Hakka shopkeeper families of every town
- Franco-Mauritians — Plantation-descended estate families
- Rodriguan Creoles — Autonomous island's fisher-farmers
- Chagossians — Displaced archipelago community seeking return
- Agalega islanders — Coconut-isle outpost communities
- Sega artist lineages — Ravanne drum families of the UNESCO art
- Port Louis dockland folk — The harbor's mixed working heritage
Languages
Major languages: Mauritian Creole, French, English, Bhojpuri
Language families: French-based Creole; Indo-Aryan
Historical kingdoms & states
- • (No precolonial kingdoms — island settled in colonial era)
Heritage sites
- • Aapravasi Ghat
- • Le Morne Cultural Landscape (maroon refuge)
Cultural highlights
Sega tipik (UNESCO)Le Morne marronage memory