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The Comoros, [ note 1 ] officially the Union of the Comoros, [ note 2 ] is an archipelagic country made up of three islands in Southeastern Africa, located at the northern end of the Mozambique Channel in the Indian Ocean. Its capital and largest city is Moroni. The religion of the majority of the population, and the official state religion, is ...
269. Moroni ( French pronunciation: [mɔʁɔni]; Arabic: موروني, romanized : Mūrūnī) is the largest city, federal capital, and seat of the government of the Union of the Comoros, a sovereign archipelago nation in the Indian Ocean. Moroni means "at the river" ( mroni in Shingazidja ). Moroni is the capital of the semi-autonomous island ...
The Comoro Islands or the Comoros ( Comorian: Komori; Arabic: جزر القمر, romanized : Juzur al-Qomor; 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 ...
Geography of the Comoros. Coordinates: 12°10′S 44°15′E. Map of all islands. Location of Comoros (in circle) Map of Comoros and Southern Africa. Map of Anjouan. Map of Moheli. The Comoros archipelago consists of four main islands aligned along a northwest–southeast axis at the north end of the Mozambique Channel, between Mozambique and ...
Only a minority of the examined crops were African-derived, like finger millet, African sorghum, and cowpea. The Comoros are believed to be the first site of contact and subsequent admixture between African and Asian populations (earlier than Madagascar). Comorians today still display at most 20% Austronesian admixture. [4] [5] [6]
The nearest countries to the Comoros are Mozambique, Tanzania, Madagascar, and the Seychelles. At 2,235 km 2 (863 sq mi) [2] the Comoros is the third smallest African nation by area; and with a population estimated at 798,000 it is the sixth smallest African nation by population (though it has one of the highest population densities in Africa ...
Dzaoudzi was the capital of Mayotte (and earlier the capital of all the colonial Comoros) until 1977, when the capital was relocated to Mamoudzou on the main island of Grande-Terre. It is situated on Petite-Terre (or Pamanzi ), which at 10 square kilometres (4 sq mi) is the largest of several islets adjacent to Maore.
MORONI (Reuters) -Comoros' President Azali Assoumani won a fourth five-year term after being declared by the country's electoral body on Tuesday as the winner of Sunday's election in which he ...