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Mauritius, [a] officially the Republic of Mauritius, [b] is an island country in the Indian Ocean, about 2,000 kilometres (1,100 nautical miles) off the southeastern coast of East Africa, east of Madagascar. It includes the main island (also called Mauritius), as well as Rodrigues, Agaléga, and St. Brandon (Cargados Carajos shoals).
The sortable table below contains the three sets of ISO 3166-1 country codes for each of its 249 countries, links to the ISO 3166-2 country subdivision codes, and the Internet country code top-level domains (ccTLD) which are based on the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 standard with the few exceptions noted. See the ISO 3166-3 standard for former country codes.
Worldwide distribution of country calling codes. Regions are coloured by first digit. Telephone country codes, originally termed International Codes by the International Telegraph and Telephone Consultative Committee (C.C.I.T.T.) in 1960, [1] but also sometimes referred to as "country dial-in codes", or historically "international subscriber dialing" (ISD) codes in the U.K., are telephone ...
The ISO 3166 codes are used by the United Nations and for Internet top-level country code domains. Non-sovereign entities are in italics. On September 2, 2008, FIPS 10-4 was one of ten standards withdrawn by NIST as a Federal Information Processing Standard.
In 1736, under French government, it became the administrative centre of Mauritius and a major reprovisioning halt for French ships during their passage between Asia and Europe, around the Cape of Good Hope. [4] The Port is named in honour of King Louis XV. During this period of French colonization, Mauritius was known as Ile de France.
150th anniversary of the setting up of the Mauritius Chamber of Commerce & Industry Rs. 10/- Silver proof: 28.28 g: 38.60 mm January 2000 150th anniversary of the setting up of the Mauritius Chamber of Commerce & Industry Rs. 100/- Silver proof: 36.76 g: 44 mm November 2001 Centenary of the arrival of Mahatma Gandhi in Mauritius
Location of Mauritius . This is a partial list of topics related to Mauritius. Geography ... (Internet country code top-level domain) Media Mauritius Broadcasting ...
This is a listing of lists of country codes: List of ISO country codes (ISO 3166) ITU country code (International Telecommunication Union) List of country calling codes E.164; Mobile country code E.212; Maritime identification digits; List of ITU letter codes (radiocommunication division) UIC country code (International Union of Railways) List ...