
Mauritius will go on daylight saving time by advancing its clocks one hour from 2008-10-06 to 2009-03-27. (These dates represent a change from the original announcement.)
ISO 3166-2 Newsletter number I-4, was released on 2002-12-10. In "Administrative Subdivisions of
Countries", I reported that ISO 3166-2 (at that time in draft form) showed Mauritius divided into
five cities, nine districts, and three dependencies. In my opinion, the five cities were not
really first-level subdivisions, but were parts of two of the districts. The standard listed
Port Louis city and Port Louis district, both with the code MU-PL. I didn't point out
the ambiguity of the code, because I wasn't treating Port Louis city as a subdivision. In this
newsletter, ISO has apparently recognized the code conflict, and changed the code for Port Louis
city to MU-PU.
Paraskevas Renesis reports that the status of Rodrigues Island was changed from dependency to island region. The Constitution of Mauritius (Amendment) Bill and the Rodrigues Regional Assembly Bill were both passed on 2001-11-20. As a result, Rodrigues will have two representatives in the Parliament of Mauritius, and will also have its own regional assembly.
The Central Statistics Office
of Mauritius has released
the results of the population census taken in July, 2000. The table below shows the resident
population by district.

| Short name | MAURITIUS |
| ISO code | MU |
| FIPS code | MP |
| Language | English (en) |
| Time zone | +4 ~ |
| Capital | Port Louis |
Although Mauritius was a British colony from 1814 until it gained independence on 1968-03-12, its place names retain a strong flavor of older times when it was the French colony of Île de France.


named by early explorers after Maurice of Nassau (1567-1625)

Mauritius is divided into nine districts, two dependencies, and one region.
| District | Typ | HASC | FIPS | Population | Area(km.²) | Area(mi.²) | Capital |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Agalega Islands | p | MU.AG | MP21 | 70 | 27 | Port Louis | |
| Black River | d | MU.BL | MP12 | 60,587 | 259 | 100 | Tamarin |
| Cargados Carajos | p | MU.CC | MP22 | 1 | 0 | Port Louis | |
| Flacq | d | MU.FL | MP13 | 126,839 | 298 | 115 | Centre de Flacq |
| Grand Port | d | MU.GP | MP14 | 106,665 | 259 | 100 | Mahebourg |
| Moka | d | MU.MO | MP15 | 75,479 | 231 | 89 | Moka |
| Pamplemousses | d | MU.PA | MP16 | 122,252 | 179 | 69 | Pamplemousses |
| Plaines Wilhems | d | MU.PW | MP17 | 358,182 | 205 | 79 | Beau Bassin-Rose Hill |
| Port Louis | d | MU.PL | MP18 | 127,855 | 44 | 17 | Port Louis |
| Rivière du Rempart | d | MU.RR | MP19 | 98,854 | 148 | 57 | Poudre d'Or |
| Rodrigues | r | MU.RO | MP23 | 35,779 | 104 | 40 | Port Louis |
| Savanne | d | MU.SA | MP20 | 66,356 | 243 | 94 | Souillac |
| 12 divisions | 1,178,848 | 2,041 | 787 | ||||
| |||||||
Here are maps showing the wards
on Mauritius Island and the zones
on Rodrigues Island.
In addition to the divisions listed above, ISO 3166-2 lists the following five cities. The FIPS standard also listed them, calling them "urban councils", until 1991. They are all located within Plaines Wilhems district, except Port Louis, which is in Port Louis district.
| City | ISO | FIPS |
|---|---|---|
| Beau Bassin-Rose Hill | BR | MP02 |
| Curepipe | CU | MP04 |
| Port Louis | PU | MP07 |
| Quatre Bornes | QB | MP08 |
| Vacoas-Phoenix | VP | MP11 |


Pamplemousses: French for grapefruit (plural)


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