ISO 3166-2:MU is the entry for Mauritius

Mauritius

Mauritius , officially the Republic of Mauritius is an island nation off the southeast coast of the African continent in the southwest Indian Ocean, about east of Madagascar...

 in ISO 3166-2

ISO 3166-2

ISO 3166-2 is part of the ISO 3166 standard published by the International Organization for Standardization , and defines codes for the names of the principal subdivisions of all countries coded in ISO 3166-1...

, part of the ISO 3166

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 standard

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 (ISO), which defines code

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s for the names of the principal subdivisions (e.g., province

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s or states) of all countries

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 coded in ISO 3166-1

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.

Currently for Mauritius, ISO 3166-2 codes are defined for 5 cities, 3 dependencies, and 9 districts. The five cities are former urban councils and are now part of a district.

Each code consists of two parts, separated by a hyphen. The first part is MU, the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2

ISO 3166-1 alpha-2

ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 codes are two-letter country codes defined in ISO 3166-1, part of the ISO 3166 standard published by the International Organization for Standardization , to represent countries, dependent territories, and special areas of geographical interest...

 code of Mauritius. The second part is two letters.

Current codes

Subdivision names are listed as in the ISO 3166-2 standard published by the ISO 3166 Maintenance Agency (ISO 3166/MA).

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Code	Subdivision name	Subdivision category
MU-BR	Beau Bassin-Rose Hill	city
MU-CU	Curepipe Curepipe Curepipe is a town centrally situated in Mauritius, an island country in the southwest Indian Ocean. It is second in size and importance to Port Louis, the capital....	city
MU-PU	Port Louis Port Louis -Economy:The economy is dominated by its port, which handles Mauritius' international trade. The port was founded by the French who preferred Port Louis as the City is shielded by the Port Louis/Moka mountain range. It is the largest container handling facility in the Indian Ocean and can...	city
MU-QB	Quatre Bornes Quatre Bornes Quatre Bornes is a town in Mauritius, located in the Upper Plaines Wilhems District, between the towns of Rose Hill and Vacoas-Phoenix. Covering an area of over twenty thousand square kilometres, Quatre Bornes is linked by roads to the north, east, south and west of Mauritius...	city
MU-VP	Vacoas-Phoenix	city
MU-AG	Agalega Islands Agalega Islands The Agalega Islands are two islands in the Indian Ocean, lying north of Mauritius at and are governed by that country. The islands have a total area of 24 km² , although the official figure of 70 km² appears too high when compared with data from satellite images.The North Island is home...	dependency
MU-CC	Cargados Carajos Shoals [Saint Brandon Islands]	dependency
MU-RO	Rodrigues Island	dependency
MU-BL	Black River	district
MU-FL	Flacq	district
MU-GP	Grand Port	district
MU-MO	Moka	district
MU-PA	Pamplemousses	district
MU-PW	Plaines Wilhems	district
MU-PL	Port Louis	district
MU-RR	Rivière du Rempart	district
MU-SA	Savanne	district

Changes

The following changes to the entry have been announced in newsletters by the ISO 3166/MA since the first publication of ISO 3166-2 in 1998:

Newsletter	Date issued	Description of change in newsletter	Code/Subdivision change
		Error correction: Duplicate use of one code element corrected. Subdivision categories in header re-sorted	Codes: (to correct duplicate use) Port Louis Port Louis -Economy:The economy is dominated by its port, which handles Mauritius' international trade. The port was founded by the French who preferred Port Louis as the City is shielded by the Port Louis/Moka mountain range. It is the largest container handling facility in the Indian Ocean and can...  (city): MU-PL → MU-PU

See also

• Subdivisions of Mauritius
• FIPS region codes of Mauritius

External links

• Districts of Mauritius, Statoids.com