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Mauritius is a country many people can only dream of going to, much unlike some of the other African countries. Why? It is one of the worlds top tourist destinations and for good reason (click here for video). with landscape much like Hawaii's, and great ocean water for fishing, boating, swimming, and other water sports, plus beautiful plant and animal life, you can see why people would want to visit this amazing island. (for pictures of Mauritius, Click HERE!)

__**Location **__ Relative Location: 500 miles east of Madagascar, 1450 miles south of India. The 20 Islands are in the Indian ocean

Absolute location: 20.2° S, 57.5° E __**Place **__

Mauritius is a country with many physical features witch include hills, mountains and oceans. It is a country of great beauty That is why many tourists chose this wonderful place as their destination. For human features it has many hotels, but not many cities. some of it's hotels and resorts are even located on an ocean or a river! There are also a couple of big cities. Some of them are Port Louis(also the capitol), Vacoas, and Curepipe. All of these cities that are listed also have many resorts, many of which are located on man made rivers and waterfalls There are also many natural features. Some mountains that are on Mauritius are Piton De la Petite Rivière Noire, Corps De Garde, Piton Savanne. Mauritius also has waterfalls, rivers and even underwater waterfalls. For more information on place, click here!

__**Human Environment Interactions **__ Mauritius's history has pretty much been a roller coaster for the past 40 or 50 years. It had been ruled by Great Britain for the past 150 years when it gained it's independence in 1968. up until then it had remained a military base for Britain. when it gained it's independence, almost everybody farmed sugarcane, witch thrived on this particular island. it was the fastest way of making the most money and is still farmed on over 85% of the island. Then they began cutting down trees and their 2 main exports were sugarcane and lumbar. It was a very polluted area with very few trees. Since the country had to buy almost everything(clothes, metals, car parts, etc.) from other countries, they were very poor. that is when their government tried to follow what other islands had done. they turned it into a tourist attraction. they have made it into a major tourist attraction. there are lots or parks that preserve the environment too. it is farmed kind of like corn with combines in modern day societies. on poorer farms it can be farmed with pretty much any thing that is sharp because it just has to be cut into small pieces. For more information on HEI, please click here! **__Movement __** Mauritius is a huge tourist attraction (as I have told you in the last 4 paragraphs) and it is so well known that it scored the tenth tourist attraction in Africa in 2012. So there is a lot of flights coming from other countries. These flights are also importing and exporting goods from all over the world. Sugarcane and lumber are good examples of exports. since Mauritius is pretty much a island in the middle of nowhere a lot of things are shipped in by plane, and the occasional boat. **<span style="background-color: #000000; color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 29px; line-height: 42.900001525878906px;">R <span style="background-color: #000000; color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 29px; line-height: 42.900001525878906px;">eg <span style="background-color: #000000; color: #ffff00; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 29px; line-height: 42.900001525878906px;">io <span style="background-color: #000000; color: #008000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 29px; line-height: 42.900001525878906px;">ns ** <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">below is a Venn-diagram comparing china to Mauritius(you can scroll) media type="custom" key="25182196" media type="custom" key="25155890" <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Mauritius's national anthem (motherland) **__<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 200%;">more facts __** media type="custom" key="25162358"
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">1 US dollar equals 30.45 Mauritian rupees
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">government type in parlemantary
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">there are 7 main languages spoken. English, French, Creole, Hindi, Urdu, Hakka, Bhojpuri
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">was discovered by the Arabic before being ruled by the Dutch, French, and British. became its own country in 1969
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;"> Hindu, Christian, Muslim, and Protestant are Mauritius's religions