| NAME: |
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| LOCATION: |
Africa & The Middle East |
| GOVERNMENT: |
Parliamentary Democracy |
| OFFICIAL LANGUAGE: |
Creole 80.5%, Bhojpuri 12.1%, French 3.4%, English (official; spoken by less than 1% of the population), other 3.7%, unspecified 0.3% |
| MAJOR RELIGION(S): |
Hindu 48%, Roman Catholic 23.6%, Muslim 16.6%, other Christian 8.6%, other 2.5%, unspecified 0.3%, none 0.4% |
| MAJOR ETHNIC GROUPS: |
Indo-Mauritian 68%, Creole 27%, Sino-Mauritian 3%, Franco-Mauritian 2% |
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