Vingt-Cinq (''Twenty-five'' in French) is the capital of the

Agaléga Islands Agaléga (french: îles Agaléga) is a dependency of Mauritius which consists of two outer islands located in the Indian Ocean, about north of Mauritius Island. The population of the islands as at July 2011 was estimated at 289. The islands h ...

, two

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s in the

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, governed by

Mauritius Mauritius ( ; french: Maurice, link=no ; mfe, label=Mauritian Creole, Moris ), officially the Republic of Mauritius, is an island nation in the Indian Ocean about off the southeast coast of the African continent, east of Madagascar. It incl ...

. It is located on the North Island, near a small airfield. In the town, there is a primary school (Jacques Le Chartier Government School) and a hospital. The name, Vingt-Cinq, is believed to refer to the number of lashes that slaves on the island received as punishment. Vingt-Cinq is located north of Mauritius, and has a population of 200 (2012). The people of the island are mostly of French descent; the descendants of the first slaves from mainland Africa and Madagascar to Mauritius also live on the island.

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