Local time
Thu, 9:11 PM GMT+4Indian/MauritiusCityCapital
Port Louis
20.17° S, 57.50° E
- Population
- 595,491
- Population from Natural Earth (POP_MAX). The source does not state which year the figure belongs to, so no year is shown.
- Population rank
- 1 of 2
- Rank by Natural Earth population among the 2 cities of Mauritius in Terratlasia that have a population figure. Terratlasia does not list every city of Mauritius, so this is not a national ranking.
- Founded
- 1735
- Year of founding from Wikidata (P571). Only the year is known, not the day; a city whose sources give more than one year shows no row.
- Elevation
- 134 m
- Elevation above sea level from Wikidata (P2044), rounded to the metre. A city whose sources give two different elevations shows no row.
- Area
- 47 km²
- Total area from Wikidata (P2046). Where two statements differ by less than half a percent the smaller is shown; a larger disagreement (land area against total area, say) shows no row.
- Administrative unit
- Port Louis District
- The administrative unit Wikidata files this city under (P131), one level below the state. The state itself is shown on its own row and is not repeated here; a city filed under more than three units shows no row at all.
- Named after
- Louis XV of France
- Wikidata · P138 · checked 2026-09-20
- Time zone
- Indian/Mauritius
Traveler brief
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Practical bearings for Port Louis, from the same records as the rest of this page.
No places in Port Louis have been recorded yet. The map and the country page still carry its context.
Overview
Name
Its name comes from Louis XV, who was king of France in 1736 when the port became the administrative center of Mauritius.
Source: CIA World Factbook · 2026-02-01 · text generated from this source, approved by a person
Connections
Nearest
Sister cities
- Antsiranana
- Foshan
- Jaipur
- Karachi
- Pretoria
- and 3 more
