Mauritius Capital

The flag of Mauritius is made up of four equal horizontal bands of red, blue, yellow, and green colors from top to the bottom. The flag is named the four bands or the “Les Quatre Bandes” in French. The flag was adopted as the national flag on March 12, 1968, when Mauritius got its independence. Mauritius also has a coat of arms, which is added to the middle of the national flag to make the presidential flag. The measurement of the flag has a proportion of 2:3.

The flag’s colors have distinct meanings of their own. The red on the flag depicts the struggle for independence and freedom from colonial rule. Blue symbolizes the Indian Ocean waters in which Mauritius is located. Yellow stands for the light after independence and green represents the green environment or agriculture.

The flag of Mauritius has several variants at present. Nothing much is said about who designed the flag. The present-day variants of the flag include the merchant flag, which is red with a canton of the national flag, and the coat of arms in a white circle on the fly. The state ensign is blue, with a canton of the national flag, and the coat of arms, without the white circle, on the fly.

Between the years 1638 and 1710, when Dutch East India occupied Mauritius, the flag used consisted of three equal horizontal bands of red, white and blue. The white band was in the middle of the two, and it contained a large black letter V and small letters O and C in the middle. The second flag was the flag used by Mauritius under French rule. The flag was used from 1715 to 1792 and was the same flag used by France when it was a monarch. Between 1782 to 1810, when Mauritius was still under French rule, the flag of France was used. From 1869 to 1906, Mauritius was under British colonial rule, and the flag consisted of a blue field with a Union Jack canton and a coat of arms on the fly of the flag.

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Capital	Port Louis
Languages	Creole 86.5%, Bhojpuri 5.3%, French 4.1%, two languages 1.4%, other 2.6% (includes English, the official language of the National Assembly, which is spoken by less than 1% of the population), unspecified 0.1% (2011 est.)
Ethnic Groups	Indo-Mauritian (compose approximately two thirds of the total population), Creole, Sino-Mauritian, Franco-Mauritian
Religion	Hindu 48.5%, Roman Catholic 26.3%, Muslim 17.3%, other Christian 6.4%, other 0.6%, none 0.7%, unspecified 0.1% (2011 est.)
Government	Parliamentary republic
Independance	12 March 1968 (from the UK)
Area	2,040.00 km²
Water Area	10.00 km²
Land Area	2,030.00 km²
Population	1,348,242.00
Location	Southern Africa, island in the Indian Ocean, about 800 km (500 mi) east of Madagascar
GDP(PPP)	$25,850,000,000.00 (USD)
GDP (Per Capita)	$20,500.00 (USD)
Export Partners	Its major export partners are the United Kingdom, the United Arab Emirates, and France.
Export Commodities	Its main exports are clothing and textiles, sugar, cut flowers, and molasses.
Import Partners	Its major import partners are India, China, and France.
Import Commodities	Its major imports include manufactured goods, capital equipment, and foodstuffs.
Climate	Tropical, modified by southeast trade winds; warm, dry winter (May to November); hot, wet, humid summer (November to May)
Terrain	Small coastal plain rising to discontinuous mountains encircling central plateau
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