Réunion is an overseas department of France, east of Madagascar, located 21 06 S, 55 36 E. Saint-Denis is the capital. French is the official language.
 Demographics
The territory has a population of 802,855. Its ethnic breakdown is 42.6% mixed race (black-white-south Asian) ,3.4% East African, 25.6% white, 23% South Asian (20% Tamil), 3.4% Chinese, 1.4% Malagasy, and 0.6% other. Réunion is 87.8% Christian (81.8% Roman Catholic, 4.2% Pentecostal), 4.5% Hindu, 4.2% Muslim, 1.7% nonreligious, and 1.8% other. Réunion has a literacy rate of 88.9%.
Works Cited
Worldstatesman.org, Réunion
CIA Factbook, Reunion
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