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Comoro Islands
Native name:
Komori (in Comorian) جزر القمر(in Arabic) Archipel des Comores(in French)
Grande Comore (Ngazidja), Mohéli (Mwali), Anjouan (Nzwani), Mayotte (Maore)
Area
2,034 km2 (785 sq mi)
Highest elevation
2,361 m (7746 ft)
Highest point
Karthala
Administration
Comoros
Islands
Grande Comore (Ngazidja) Mohéli (Mwali) Anjouan (Nzwani)
Largest settlement
Moroni (capital) (pop. 60,200)
President
Azali Assoumani
Demographics
Population
1,008,246 (2016 est.)
The Comoro Islands or the Comoros (Comorian: Komori; Arabic: جزر القمر, romanized: Juzur al-qamar; French: Les Comores) are an archipelago of volcanic islands situated off the southeastern coast of Africa, to the east of Mozambique and northwest of Madagascar. The islands are politically divided between the Union of the Comoros, a sovereign country, and Mayotte, an Overseas Department of France.
The ComoroIslands or the Comoros (Comorian: Komori; Arabic: جزر القمر, romanized: Juzur al-qamar; French: Les Comores) are an archipelago of volcanic...
sovereign state consists of three major islands and numerous smaller islands, all of the volcanic ComoroIslands with the exception of Mayotte. Mayotte...
Comoro may refer to: Comoro (East Timor), a village in Dom Aleixo Administrative Post, Dili District, East Timor ComoroIslands, an archipelago lying...
The Comoros is a group of islands in the Indian Ocean, mostly an independent nation but also including the French territory of Mayotte. It is historically...
turned their attention to the Comorosislands in the middle of the 19th century. The French finally acquired the islands through a cunning mixture of strategies...
part of the ComoroIslands between the French overseas region of Mayotte and the nation of Madagascar. The archipelago consists of two islands, Grande Glorieuse...
The Union of the Comoros consists of the three islands Njazidja (Grande Comoros), Mwali (Moheli) and Nzwani (Anjouan) while the island of Mayotte remains...
ComoroIslands are volcanic in origin. Mayotte is the easternmost and oldest of the islands, more than 8 million years old. It has one central island...
of islands of the Comoros. Anjouan Grande Comore Mohéli The three islands under the control of the Comoros have the status of autonomous islands (formerly...
Indian Ocean coelacanth was historically known by fishermen around the ComoroIslands (where it is known as gombessa), Madagascar, and Mozambique in the western...
is an autonomous volcanic island in the ComoroIslands in the southwestern Indian Ocean, part of the Union of the Comoros. It is known in Shikomori as...
kɔmɔʁ]; Swahili: Ngazidja) is an island in Comoros off the coast of Africa. It is the largest island in the Comoros nation. Most of its population is...
The Comoros national football team represents the Comoros in international football and is controlled by the Comoros Football Federation. It was formed...
ComoroIslands Airline was a start-up airline based in the Comoros. The airline launched with flights between the islands of the archipelago made its...
facilities, make transportation and communication difficult. Comoros are sunny islands. The islands have a total land area of 2,236 square kilometers (including...
the ComoroIslands. Scarecrow. pp. 47–48. ISBN 978-0-8108-2819-3. Martin Ottenheimer; Harriet Ottenheimer (1994). Historical Dictionary of the Comoro Islands...
Grand Comore scops owl or Comoro scops owl, is a small scops owl endemic to the island of Grande Comore in the ComoroIslands. The Karthala scops owl was...
ComoroIslands". Written Language & Literacy. 4 (1): 15–29. doi:10.1075/wll.4.1.03jos. ISSN 1387-6732. Bakar, Abdourahim Said (1988). "Small Island Systems:...
Mozambique Channel (between Mozambique and Madagascar, including the ComoroIslands) towards South Africa, to encircle the Chinese naval base at Doraleh...
to the ComoroIslands, a region of Africa including Comoros Something or someone of, from, or related to Comoros, a country in the ComoroIslands Comorian...
Shimasiwa, the "language of islands") is the name given to a group of four Bantu languages spoken in the ComoroIslands, an archipelago in the southwestern...
Mayotte became the first of the ComoroIslands to become a French colony. In the 1880s and 1890s, the three other islands - Grande Comore, Anjouan and Mohéli...
all three islands, population pressures on the Comoros are becoming increasingly critical. The age structure of the population of the Comoros is similar...
Arabic etymology is doubtful. The main island, Grande-Terre (or Maore), geologically the oldest of the ComoroIslands, is 39 kilometres (24 mi) long and 22...
plant genus in the family Anacardiaceae, native to Madagascar, the ComoroIslands, and Aldabra. They are small dioecious pachycaul trees which mainly...
governors of the Comoros, from the establishment of the French suzerainty over the ComoroIslands in 1841 until the independence of the Comoros in 1975. (Dates...
français (1886) jusqu'à nos jours. Harmattan, 1999. Newitt, Malyn. The ComoroIslands: Struggle against Dependency in the Indian Ocean.Westview 1984. Ottenheimer...
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