Mauritius (Concert of Europe)

Mauritius (French: Maurice, Mauritian Creole: Moris) is an insular overseas country of. It is located in the, about 2,000 kilometers from the southeastern coast of. Apart from the main island, Mauritius, on which the capital stands, it also includes the islands of Rodrigues, Agaléga, St. Brandon, and the Chagos archipelago. Mauritius is the largest and most popolous French possession in the Indian Ocean, added to the French colonial empire with the after the end of the.

The people of Mauritius are highly multicultural and ethnically diverse: while people of French-origin remain a minority, the bulk of the islands' demographic makeup consists of descendants of Indian laborers brought to the islands when they were still a British colony. Thus, today native Mauritians are drawn from Indian, European and African origins; Mauritius is the only country in Africa in which the majority religion, while  and  are followed by a minority of the population. The colony's economy, which recently experienced a boom, relies on tourism, fishing, textiles and sugar cultivation.