Mauritius in other languages: exonyms, Port Louis and the districts
Mauritius is the Republic of Mauritius in English and République de Maurice in French, with the ISO codes MU, MUS and 480. The page gives the name in 163 languages and variants, Port Louis in 52, and the nine districts and three dependencies.
Official languagesEnglish and French in practice; the constitution names no official language
Checked
- alpha-2
- MU
- alpha-3
- MUS
- numeric
- 480
Republic of Mauritius
République de Maurice
- English
- MauritiusRepublic of Mauritius
- Capital
- Port LouisPort Louis
ISO 3166-1, checked 28 October 2026. Language status, naming and census figure: Wikipedia's Mauritius, citing the constitution and Statistics Mauritius, checked 28 October 2026. Flag after the Wikimedia Commons drawing.
Mauritius in other languages: list of exonyms
| Languages | ISO 639-3 | Name | Romanised |
|---|---|---|---|
| English, Afrikaans, Welsh, Danish, Lower Sorbian, Estonian, Finnish, Kven, Upper Sorbian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Javanese, Dutch, Norwegian, Novial, Polish, Romanian, Northern Sami, Albanian, Sardinian, Saterland Frisian, Swahili, Swedish, Võro, German, Luxembourgish, Low German | eng / afr / cym / dan / dsb / est / fin / fkv / hsb / hun / ind / jav / nld / nor / nov / pol / ron / sme / sqi / srd / stq / swa / swe / vor / deu / ltz / nds | Mauritius | same as written |
| Asturian, Galician, Nahuatl, Spanish | ast / glg / nah / spa | Mauricio | same as written |
| Aragonese, Basque, Italian | arg / eus / ita | Maurizio | same as written |
| Haitian Creole, Mauritius Creole, Turkish | hat / mfe / tur | Moris | same as written |
| Azerbaijani, Gagauz | aze / gag | Mavriki / Маврики | Mavriki |
| Catalan, Occitan | cat / oci | Maurici | same as written |
| Czech, Croatian | ces / hrv | Mauricius | same as written |
| French, Jersey Norman French | fra / jnf | Maurice | same as written |
| Friulian, Romansh | fur / roh | Maurizius | same as written |
| Kinyarwanda, Kirundi | kin / run | Morise | same as written |
| Bambara | bam | Morisi, Mɔrisi | same as written |
| Bosnian | bos | Mauricijus / Маурицијус / ماۆرٖىڄٖىيۆس | Mauricijus |
| Breton | bre | Enez Moris | same as written |
| Cornish | cor | Ynys Morrys | same as written |
| Corsican | cos | Maurizia | same as written |
| Crimean Tatar, Moldovan | crh / mol | Mauritius / Мауритиус | Mauritius |
| Esperanto | epo | Maŭricio | same as written |
| Faroese | fao | Móritius | same as written |
| Franco-Provençal | frp | Môris | same as written |
| West Frisian | fry | Mauritsius | same as written |
| Scottish Gaelic | gla | Na h-Eileanan Mhoiriseas | same as written |
| Irish | gle | Oileán Mhuirís | same as written |
| Manx | glv | Ellan Wirrish | same as written |
| Igbo | ibo | Mọrishọs | same as written |
| Interlingua | ina | Mauritio | same as written |
| Icelandic | isl | Máritíus | same as written |
| Karakalpak | kaa | Mavrikiy / Маврикий | Mavrikiy |
| Kurmanji Kurdish | kur | Morîs, Morîtûs | same as written |
| Latin | lat | Insula Mauritius, Insula Mauritiana | same as written |
| Latvian | lav | Maurīcija | same as written |
| Lingala | lin | Morisi | same as written |
| Lithuanian | lit | Mauricijus | same as written |
| Latgalian | ltg | Maurīceja | same as written |
| Malagasy | mlg | Maorisy | same as written |
| Maltese | mlt | Mawrizju | same as written |
| Malay | msa | Mauritius / موريتيوس | Mauritius |
| Norman French | nrm | Mâorice | same as written |
| Portuguese | por | Maurícia, Maurícias, Maurício | same as written |
| Quechua | que | Mawrisyu | same as written |
| Kalderash Romani | rmy | Mauritius / माउरितिउस | Mauritius |
| Aromanian | rup | Mavritsius | same as written |
| Sicilian | scn | Mauriti | same as written |
| Slovak | slk | Maurícius | same as written |
| Slovio | slo | Mauritia / Мауритиа | Mauritia |
| Slovenian | slv | Mavricius | same as written |
| Samogitian | smg | Maurikėjos | same as written |
| Samoan | smo | Morisiasi | same as written |
| Tetum | tet | Maurísia | same as written |
| Turkmen | tuk | Mawriki / Маврикий | Mawriki |
| Uzbek | uzb | Mavrikiy / Маврикий / مەۋرىكىي | Mavrikiy |
| Vietnamese | vie | Mô-ri-xơ | same as written |
| Volapük | vol | Maurizeän | same as written |
| Walloon | wln | Iye Môrice | same as written |
| Wolof | wol | Móoris | same as written |
| Zazaki | zza | Maurityus | same as written |
| Altai, Kabardian, Khakas, Komi, Karachay-Balkar, Kumyk, Lezgi, Meadow Mari, Mongolian, Ossetian, Russian, Tuvan, Udmurt, Kalmyk | alt / kbd / kjh / kom / krc / kum / lez / mhr / mon / oss / rus / tyv / udm / xal | Маврикий | Mavrikij |
| Abkhaz | abk | Маврики | Mavriki |
| Avar | ava | Маврикий | Mawrikij |
| Bashkir | bak | Маврикий / Mavrikiy | Mavrikiy |
| Belarusian | bel | Маўрыкій / Maŭrykij, Маўрыцы / Maŭrycy | Maŭrykij, Maŭrycy |
| Bulgarian | bul | Мавриций | Mavricij |
| Chechen | che | Маврики / Mavriki | Mavriki |
| Kazakh | kaz | Маврикий / ماۆريكيي / Mavrïkïy | Mavrïkïy |
| Kyrgyz | kir | Маврикий / ماۋرىكىي / Mavrikiy | Mavrikiy |
| Kurdish (Caucasus) | kmr | Маврики / Mavrîkî | Mavrîkî |
| Macedonian | mkd | Маврициус | Mavricius |
| Rusyn | rue | Мауріціус | Mauricius |
| Yakut | sah | Маурикий | Maurikij |
| Serbian | srp | Маурицијус / Mauricijus | Mauricijus |
| Tatar | tat | Маврикий / Mavrikí / ماۋرىكىي | Mavrikí |
| Tajik | tgk | Маврикия / موریکیه / Mavrikija | Mavrikija |
| Ukrainian | ukr | Маврикій | Mavrykij |
| Arabic | ara | موريشيوس, موريشوس, الموريس, جزر الموريس, جزائر الموريس, جزر موريس, جزائر موريس, موريس | Mūrīšiyūs, Mūrīšūs, al-Mūrīs, Ǧuzuru l-Mūrīs, Ǧazāʾiru l-Mūrīs, Ǧuzuru Mūrīs, Ǧazāʾiru Mūrīs, Mūrīs |
| South Azerbaijani | azb | ماوریکی / Mavriki | Mavriki |
| Sorani Kurdish | ckb | مۆریس / Morîs | Morîs |
| Persian | fas | موریس / Moris | Moris |
| Western Punjabi | pnb | ماریشس | Mārīšas |
| Dari | prs | موریشس | Mōrīšas |
| Pashto | pus | موريشس | Mōrīšəs |
| Uyghur | uig | ماۋرىكىي / Mawrikiy / Маврикий | Mawrikiy |
| Urdu | urd | موریشس, مورشس | Mōrīšas, Mōrišas |
| Dhivehi | div | މޮރިށަސް | Moriŝas |
| Hebrew | heb | מאוריציוס, מוריציוס | Maʾūrīʦyūs, Mōrīʦyūs |
| Ladino | lad | מאוריסיו / Maurisio | Maurisio |
| Yiddish | yid | מאָריציוס | Moriʦyus |
| Amharic | amh | ሞሪሸስ | Morišäs |
| Greek | ell | Μαυρίκιος | Mayríkios |
| Armenian | hye | Մավրիկիոս, Մավրիտոս, Մավրիտիուս | Mavrikios, Mavritos, Mavritious |
| Georgian | kat | მავრიკი, მავრიკია | Mavriki, Mavrikia |
| Laz | lzz | მორისი / Morisi | Morisi |
| Mingrelian | xmf | მავრიკი | Mavriki |
| Hindi | hin | मॉरिशस, मारीशस, मौरिस | Mŏrišas, Mārīšas, Môris |
| Nepali | nep | मॉरिशिअस | Mŏrišias |
| Bengali | ben | মরিশাস | Môrišās |
| Gujarati | guj | મોરિશસ | Morišas |
| Odia | ori | ମରୀଶସ | Môrīšôs |
| Punjabi | pan | ਮੋਰਿਸ਼ਸ | Morišas |
| Sinhala | sin | මොරිෂස් | Moriṣas |
| Kannada | kan | ಮಾರಿಶಸ್ | Mārišas |
| Malayalam | mal | മൗറീഷ്യസ്, മൌറീഷ്യസ് | Māuṟīṣyas, Mauṟīṣyas |
| Tamil | tam | மொரிஷியஸ் | Morišiyas |
| Telugu | tel | మారిషస్, మారిషియస్ | Māriṣas, Māriṣiyas |
| Chinese | zho | 毛裡求斯/毛里求斯 | Máolǐqiúsī |
| Japanese | jpn | モーリシャス | Mōrishasu |
| Korean | kor | 모리셔스 | Morisyeoseu |
| Tibetan | bod | མའུ་རི་ཊིའུ་སུ། | Ma'u.ri.ti'u.su |
| Dzongkha | dzo | མོ་རི་ཤིཡསི། | Mo.ri.ṣiyasi |
| Burmese | mya | မောရိရှပ် | Mɔ̀ẏíšaʿ |
| Thai | tha | มอริเชียส | Mɔ̄ričʰiyat |
| Khmer | khm | ម៉ូរីទុស, មូរីទូស, ម៉ៅរីទីស | Mūrītus, Mūrītūs, Maurītīs |
Arabic lists eight forms, from موريشيوس (Mūrīšiyūs) to جزائر موريس (Ǧazāʾiru Mūrīs), the islands of Mauritius. Several Celtic and Latin forms name it an island: Enez Moris, Ynys Morrys, Insula Mauritius.
Mauritius, Maurice, Moris and Маврикий
English and French are the two languages of the state: the Republic of Mauritius and the République de Maurice, Mauritian and mauricien. Strictly, the constitution names no official language; it only makes English the language of the National Assembly, where members may also speak French. Mauritian Creole, the home language of 90 per cent of the population in the 2022 census, calls the island Moris, a form that Haitian Creole and Turkish share.
Dutch sailors named the island in 1598 after Prince Maurice of Nassau, and the European forms keep that personal name: Mauricio in Spanish, Maurizio in Italian, Mauricijus in Lithuanian, Mawrizju in Maltese. Russian and most other languages of the former Soviet Union say Маврикий (Mavrikij), and Greek writes Μαυρίκιος.
Asian scripts follow the English sound instead: Hindi मॉरिशस (Mŏrišas), Bengali মরিশাস, Japanese モーリシャス (Mōrishasu) and Korean 모리셔스 (Morisyeoseu).
Port Louis in other languages
| Languages | ISO 639-3 | Name | Romanised |
|---|---|---|---|
| English, French, German, Luxembourgish, Low German, Irish | eng / fra / deu / ltz / nds / gle | Port Louis | same as written |
| Azerbaijani, Turkmen | aze / tuk | Port-Lui / Порт-Луи | Port-Lui |
| Bosnian | bos | Port Louis / Порт Луис / پۉرت لۆاٖىس | Port Louis |
| Esperanto | epo | Port-Luiso | same as written |
| Haitian Creole | hat | Pò Louwi | same as written |
| Kurmanji Kurdish | kur | Port Lûwîs | same as written |
| Latvian | lav | Portluī | same as written |
| Lithuanian | lit | Port Luisas | same as written |
| Moldovan | mol | Port Louis / Порт-Луи | Port Louis |
| Malay | msa | Port Louis / ڤورت لويس | Port Louis |
| Portuguese | por | Porto Luís | same as written |
| Samogitian | smg | Port Luisos | same as written |
| Uzbek | uzb | Port-Lui / Порт-Луи / پارت-لۇئى | Port-Lui |
| Mongolian, Russian | mon / rus | Порт-Луи | Port-Lui |
| Bashkir | bak | Порт-Луи / Port-Lui | Port-Lui |
| Belarusian | bel | Порт-Луі / Port-Łui | Port-Łui |
| Bulgarian | bul | Порт Луи | Port Lui |
| Kazakh | kaz | Порт-Луи / پورت-لۋي / Port-Lwï | Port-Lwï |
| Kyrgyz | kir | Порт-Луи / پورت-لۇئ / Port-Lui | Port-Lui |
| Serbian | srp | Порт Луис / Port Luis | Port Luis |
| Tatar | tat | Порт-Луи / Port-Lui / پورت-لۇئى | Port-Lui |
| Tajik | tgk | Порт-Луи / پارت لوئی / Port-Lui | Port-Lui |
| Ukrainian | ukr | Порт-Луї | Port-Luï |
| Arabic | ara | بورت لويس, بور لوي | Būrt Luwīs, Būr Luwī |
| South Azerbaijani | azb | پورت لوی / Port-Lui | Port-Lui |
| Persian | fas | پورت لوئی / پرت لوئی / Port Lui, پرت لوئیس / پورت لوئیس / Port Luis | Port Lui, Port Luis |
| Pashto | pus | پورټ لوي | Pōrṫ Luwī |
| Uyghur | uig | پورت لۇئى / Port Lui / Порт-Луи | Port Lui |
| Urdu | urd | پورٹ لوئس | Pōrṫ Lūʾis |
| Hebrew | heb | פורט־לואיס | Pōrṭ-Lūʾīs |
| Yiddish | yid | פּאָר לואי | Por Luʾi |
| Amharic | amh | ፖርት ሉዊስ | Port Luwis |
| Greek (Demotic) | ell | Πορτ Λουίς, Πορτ Λούις | Port Loyís, Port Loýis |
| Greek (Katharevousa) | ell | Πὸρ-Λουΐ, Πὸρτ Λούϊς | Pòr-Loyḯ, Pòrt Loýïs |
| Armenian | hye | Պորտ Լուի | Port Loui |
| Georgian | kat | პორტ-ლუი | Port-Lui |
| Hindi | hin | पोर्ट लुइस, पोर्ट लुई, पोर्ट लुइ | Porṭ Luis, Porṭ Luī, Porṭ Lui |
| Bengali | ben | পোর্ট লুইস | Porṭ Luis |
| Kannada | kan | ಪೋರ್ಟ್ ಲೂಯಿ | Pōrṭ Lūyi |
| Malayalam | mal | പോര്ട്ട് ലൂയിസ് | Pōrṭṭ Lūyis |
| Tamil | tam | போர்ட் லூயிஸ் | Pōrṭ Lūyis |
| Chinese | zho | 路易港 | Lùyì Gǎng |
| Japanese | jpn | ポートルイス | Pōto Ruisu |
| Korean | kor | 포트루이스 | Poteu Luiseu |
| Thai | tha | พอร์ตหลุยส์ | Pɔ̄[r]d [h]Luy[s] |
Chinese 路易港 (Lùyì Gǎng) translates the word port; Portuguese Porto Luís translates both parts.
Districts and dependencies of Mauritius in English and French
ISO 3166-2:MU lists nine districts on the main island and three dependencies: Rodrigues, the Agalega Islands and the Cargados Carajos Shoals. Names are given in English and French with the district seat; the English column follows the ISO spelling.
| ISO 3166-2 | English | French | English | Administrative centre | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Districts districts9 | |||||
| MU-BL | Black River District | District de Black River | Black River | BambousBambous | |
| MU-FL | Flacq District | District de Flacq | Flacq | Centre de FlacqCentre de Flacq | |
| MU-GP | Grand Port District | District de Grand Port | Grand Port | MahébourgMahébourg | |
| MU-MO | Moka District | District de Moka | Moka | MokaMoka | |
| MU-PA | Pamplemousses District | District de Pamplemousses | Pamplemousses | TrioletTriolet | |
| MU-PW | Plaines Wilhelms District | District de Plaines Wilhelms | Plaines Wilhems | Beau Bassin-Rose HillBeau Bassin-Rose Hill | |
| MU-PL | Port Louis District | District de Port Louis | Port Louis | Port LouisPort Louis | |
| MU-RR | Rivière du Rempart District | District de Rivière du Rempart | Rivière du Rempart | Poudre d’OrPoudre d’Or | |
| MU-SA | Savanne District | District de Savanne | Savanne | SouillacSouillac | |
| Dependencies dépendances3 | |||||
| MU-AG | Agalega Islands | Îles Agalega | Agalega Islands | ||
| MU-CC | Cargados Carajos | Cargados Carajos | Cargados Carajos Shoals | ||
| MU-RO | Rodrigues | Rodrigues | Rodrigues Island | Port MathurinPort Mathurin | |
Codes: ISO 3166-2:MU on the ISO Online Browsing Platform, change history (Newsletter I-4 of 10 December 2002, OBP update of 24 November 2020) as tabulated in Wikipedia's ISO 3166-2:MU, checked 28 October 2026. ISO writes Plaines Wilhems; the district name has also been spelt Plaines Wilhelms. ISO gives Saint Brandon Islands as the local variant of Cargados Carajos.
Districts, dependencies and the deleted cities
The ISO entry has changed twice. In 2002 a duplicate was corrected: the city of Port Louis moved from MU-PL, which stayed with the district, to MU-PU. On 24 November 2020 ISO deleted the five cities, Beau Bassin-Rose Hill, Curepipe, Port Louis, Quatre Bornes and Vacoas-Phoenix, which leaves the nine districts and three dependencies listed here.
Each district has a seat. Several are named after the seat, as Moka and Port Louis are, while Black River is run from Bambous and Grand Port from Mahébourg. Rodrigues has its seat at Port Mathurin; the Agalega Islands and the Cargados Carajos Shoals have none in the list.
Questions about the names and districts of Mauritius
What is Mauritius called in French?
Maurice, officially République de Maurice. Mauritian Creole says Moris.
What are the ISO codes of Mauritius?
MU (alpha-2), MUS (alpha-3) and 480 (numeric) in ISO 3166-1.
Why are the cities of Mauritius no longer in ISO 3166-2?
ISO deleted the five city codes on 24 November 2020. The entry now has nine districts and three dependencies.