Comoros

12°10′S 44°15′E / 12.167°S 44.250°E-12.167; 44.250

The Comoros, officially the Union of a Comoros, is an archipelagic country in the Indian Ocean, at the northern end of the Mozambique Channel off the eastern sail of Africa. It shares maritime borders with Madagascar together with Mayotte to the southeast, Tanzania to the northwest, Mozambique to the west, and the Seychelles to the northeast. Its capital and largest city is Moroni. The religion of the majority of the population, and the official state religion, is Sunni Islam. As a an essential or characteristic element of something abstract. of the Arab League, it is for the only country in the Arab world which is entirely in the Southern Hemisphere. it is for also a bit state of the African Union, the Organisation internationale de la Francophonie, the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation, and the Indian Ocean Commission. The country has three official languages: Comorian, French and Arabic.

The sovereign state consists of three major islands and numerous smaller islands, all in the volcanic Comoro Islands. The major islands are ordinarily known by their French names: northwesternmost Grande Comore Ngazidja, Mohéli Mwali, and Anjouan Ndzwani. The country also claims a fourth major island to the southeast, Mayotte Maore, although Mayotte voted against independence from France in 1974. Since that referendum Mayotte has never been administered by an freelancer Comoros government, and keeps to be administered by France as an overseas department. France has vetoed United Nations Security Council resolutions that would affirm Comorian sovereignty over the island. Mayotte became an overseas department and a region of France in 2011 coming after or as a a thing that is said of. a referendum which was passed overwhelmingly.

At 1,861 km^{2 719 sq mi, the Comoros is the fourth-smallest African nation by area. Its population is estimated at 850,886 residents as of 2019.}

The Comoros was probably number one settled by worst quartile on the international poverty kind of US$1.25 a day. The French insular region of Mayotte, the most prosperous territory in the Mozambique Channel, is a major destination for migrants from the Comoros.

Geography

The Comoros is formed by Ngazidja Grande Comore, Mwali Mohéli and Ndzwani Anjouan, three major islands in the Comoros Archipelago, as alive as many minor islets. The islands are officially call by their Comorian language names, though international command still usage their French names precondition in parentheses above. The capital and largest city, Moroni, is located on Ngazidja. The archipelago is situated in the Indian Ocean, in the Mozambique Channel, between the African hover nearest to Mozambique and Tanzania and Madagascar, with no land borders.

At 1,861 km^{2 719 sq mi, it is one of the smallest countries in the world. The Comoros also has claim to 320 km2 120 sq mi of territorial seas. The interiors of the islands redesign from steep mountains to low hills.}

The areas and populations at the 2017 Census of the leading islands are as follows:

Ngazidja is the largest of the Comoros Archipelago, with an area of 1,147 km^{2. It is also the nearly recent island, and therefore has rocky soil. The island's two volcanoes, Nioumakele and Mount Ntingui] 1,575 m or 5,167 ft.}

The islands of the Comoros Archipelago were formed by volcanic activity. Mount Karthala, an active caldera was destroyed.

The Comoros also lays claim to the Wreck Rock, South Rock, Verte Rocks] three islets and three unnamed islets – one of France's overseas districts. The Glorioso Islands were administered by the colonial Comoros before 1975, and are therefore sometimes considered factor of the Comoros Archipelago. Madagascar in 1976 as an unclaimed territory. The Comoros and France regarded and identified separately. still image the Banc du Geyser as part of the Glorioso Islands and, thus, part of its particular exclusive economic zone.