Mauritius
Eastern Africa · Port Louis
Everything Mapfold knows about Mauritius, and the 4 answers that pick it out of all 192 countries the game can hide.
Mauritius in figures
- Capital
- Port Louis
- Region
- Eastern Africa
- Area
- 2,040 km²
- Population
- 1,243,741
- Density
- 609.7 /km²
- Land neighbours
- 0
- Coast
- No land border
- Highest point
- 828 m
- Mean temperature
- 23.3 °C
- Life expectancy
- 73.8 years
- GDP per head
- US$ 12,991
- Urban
- 39 %
- Forest
- 19.5 %
Mauritius in Mapfold
Every question in the game, and what Mauritius answers to it. This is not a fact about Mauritius so much as a fact about where it sits among the other 191 — which is the only kind of fact a deduction game runs on.
The shortest way to find Mauritius
4 answers are enough to leave Mauritius alone in the daylight, starting from all 192. Taking the largest available cut each time, which is what the game scores you against:
- 1
It shares no land border with anyone.
37 STILL IN DAYLIGHT - 2
It is in Africa.
6 STILL IN DAYLIGHT - 3
Its highest point is below 2,000 m.
2 STILL IN DAYLIGHT - 4
Less than 30% of it is forest.
1 STILL IN DAYLIGHT
What makes Mauritius unusual
It shares no land border with anyone.
37 of 192 countriesIt is in Africa.
54 of 192 countriesIt is denser than 150 people per square kilometre.
56 of 192 countries
Every Mapfold question, answered
All 35 questions Mapfold can put to the world, ordered by how much hearing this answer would narrow it.
- BORDERS
It shares no land border with anyone.
37 of 192 countries - LOCATION
It lies in the southern hemisphere.
38 of 192 countries - BORDERS
It borders at most one country.
54 of 192 countries - REGION
It is in Africa.
54 of 192 countries - PEOPLE
It is denser than 150 people per square kilometre.
56 of 192 countries - SIZE
It is smaller than Belgium.
57 of 192 countries - LOCATION
It runs taller than it is wide.
66 of 192 countries - NATURE
Its highest point is below 2,000 m.
74 of 192 countries - ECONOMY
GDP per head is above $12,000.
78 of 192 countries - SIZE
It covers less than 100,000 km².
85 of 192 countries - NATURE
Less than 30% of it is forest.
92 of 192 countries - LOCATION
It lies east of 20°E.
97 of 192 countries - PEOPLE
Fewer than ten million people live there.
97 of 192 countries - CLIMATE
It averages warmer than 22 °C all year.
104 of 192 countries - PEOPLE
Life expectancy there is below 75.
107 of 192 countries - PEOPLE
Fewer than 70% of people live in towns and cities.
119 of 192 countries - BORDERS
It borders fewer than five countries.
132 of 192 countries - PEOPLE
More than 50 people live there per square kilometre.
133 of 192 countries - SIZE
It covers less than 500,000 km².
141 of 192 countries - CLIMATE
It averages over 12 °C all year.
143 of 192 countries - REGION
It is not in Asia.
146 of 192 countries - REGION
It is not in Europe.
148 of 192 countries - BORDERS
It touches the sea.
149 of 192 countries - PEOPLE
More than a million people live there.
156 of 192 countries - REGION
It is not in the Americas.
157 of 192 countries - LOCATION
Its centre lies south of 45°N.
160 of 192 countries - PEOPLE
Fewer than fifty million people live there.
161 of 192 countries - ECONOMY
GDP per head is below $40,000.
163 of 192 countries - LOCATION
Neither tropic crosses it.
165 of 192 countries - NATURE
Less than 60% of it is forest.
166 of 192 countries - ECONOMY
It does not use the euro.
167 of 192 countries - NATURE
Its highest point is over 500 m.
171 of 192 countries - LOCATION
It spans less than 20° of longitude.
175 of 192 countries - REGION
It is not in Oceania.
179 of 192 countries - LOCATION
The equator does not cross it.
181 of 192 countries
How Mauritius compares
- Bigger than Comoros
- Smaller than Luxembourg
- More people than Djibouti
- Fewer people than Eswatini
- 168th largest of 192 by area
- 155th by population, of 192
Which countries border Mauritius
Mauritius shares no land border with anyone.
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