Comoros

De Comoros, officially de Union of the Comoros, be independent country wey dey make up of three islands for Southeastern Africa insyd, e dey locate for de northern end of de Mozambique Channel wey dey de Indian Ocean insyd. Ein capital den largest city be Moroni. De religion of de majority of de population, den de official state religion, be Sunni Islam. Comoros proclaim ein independence from France for 6 July 1975. Ebe member of de Arab League, ebe de only country insyd de Arab world wey be entirely insyd de Southern Hemisphere. Ebe member state of de African Union, de Organisation internationale de la Francophonie, de Organisation of Islamic Co-operation, den de Indian Ocean Commission. De country get three official languages: Shikomori, French den Arabic.

For 1,659 km² (641 sq mi), de Comoros be de third-smallest African country by area. Insyd 2019, na dem estimate ein population be 850,886. De sovereign state dey consist of three major islands den numerous smaller islands, all of de volcanic Comoro Islands plus de exception of Mayotte. Mayotte vote against independence from France insyd referendum for 1974 insyd, wey edey continue to be administer by France as overseas department. Na France veto United Nations Security Council resolution wey na e go affirm Comorian sovereignty ova de island. Mayotte cam turn overseas department den region of France insyd 2011 wey dey follow referendum wey na dem pass overwhelmingly.

Ebe likely say Austronesian/Malagasy peoples, Bantu speakers from East Africa den seafaring Arab traders settle de Comoros first. E cam turn part of de French colonial empire during de 19th century, before ein independence insyd 1975. E experience more dan 20 coups anaa attempted coups, plus dem assassinate various heads of state. Along plus dis constant political instability, e get one of de worst levels of income inequality of any nation, wey e dey rank insyd de medium quartile for de Human Development Index top. Between 2009 den 2014, about 19% of de population live below de international poverty line of US$1.90 a day by purchasing power parity.

Etymology

De name "Comoros" dey derive from de Arabic wordقمر qamar ("moon").

Geography

De areas den populations (for de 2017 Census) of de main islands be as follows:

Name	Area km2	Population Census 2017
Mwali	211	51,567
Ngazidja	1,024	379,367
Ndzwani	424	327,382
Totals	1,659	758,316

Demographics

Largest cities anaa towns insyd Comoros Source:
	Rank	Name	Island	Pop.
	1	Moroni	Grande Comore	111,329
	2	Mutsamudu	Anjouan	30,000
	3	Ouani	Anjouan	22,501
	4	Mandza	Grande Comore	21,000
	5	Fomboni	Mohéli	18,277
	6	Domoni	Anjouan	16,276
	7	Adda-Douéni	Anjouan	10,858
	8	Kourani	Grande Comore	10,000
	9	Bazimini	Anjouan	8,952
	10	Mkazi	Grande Comore	8,438

With about 850,000 residents, the Comoros is one of the least-populous countries in the world, but its population density is high,

References

1. ↑ Walker, Iain. "Islands in a Cosmopolitan Sea: A History of the Comoros." Hurst Publishers. 2019, p 8-9.
2. ↑ "World Population Prospects 2022". United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division. Retrieved 17 July 2022.
3. ↑ "World Population Prospects 2022: Demographic indicators by region, subregion and country, annually for 1950-2100" (XSLX) ("Total Population, as of 1 July (thousands)"). United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division. Retrieved 17 July 2022.
4. ↑ "Question of the Comorian island of Mayotte" (PDF). United Nations General Assembly Resolution. 21 October 1976. Archived (PDF) from the original on 8 April 2008. Retrieved 18 February 2024.
5. ↑ "Comoros - Permanent Mission to the United Nations". web.archive.org. 6 January 2008. Retrieved 18 February 2024.
6. ↑ "Subjects of UN Security Council Vetoes". Global Policy Forum. Archived from the original on 17 March 2008. Retrieved 27 March 2008.
7. ↑ "Article 33, Repertory, Supplement 5, vol. II (1970–1978)" (PDF). United Nations, Office of Legal Affairs (OLA). Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 October 2014.
8. ↑ Nicolas Brucato, Veronica Fernandes, Stéphane Mazières, Pradiptajati Kusuma, Murray P. Cox, Joseph Wainaina Ng’ang’a, Mohammed Omar, Marie-Claude Simeone-Senelle, Coralie Frassati, Farida Alshamali, Bertrand Fin, Anne Boland, Jean-Francois Deleuze, Mark Stoneking, Alexander Adelaar, Alison Crowther, Nicole Boivin, Luisa Pereira, Pascal Bailly, Jacques Chiaroni, François-Xavier Ricaut (4 January 2018). "The Comoros Show the Earliest Austronesian Gene Flow into the Swahili Corridor". American Journal of Human Genetics. American Society of Human Genetics. 102 (1): 58–68. doi:10.1016/j.ajhg.2017.11.011. PMC 5777450. PMID 29304377.
9. ↑ "Anti-French protests in Comoros". BBC News. 27 March 2008. Archived from the original on 28 March 2008. Retrieved 27 March 2008.
10. ↑ "Intrigue in the world's most coup-prone island paradise". The Economist. Archived from the original on 25 January 2019. Retrieved 25 January 2019.
11. ↑ "Human Development Report 2021/2022" (PDF). United Nations Development Programme. 2022. p. 283.
12. ↑ "Human Development Report 2021/2022" (PDF). United Nations Development Programme. 2022. p. 297.
13. ↑ "The Islands of the Moon". Aramco World. 47 (4): 40. July–August 1996. Archived from the original on 13 October 2007. Retrieved 20 September 2007.
14. ↑ ^{14.0 14.1} Institut Nationale de la Statistique et Études Économiques et Démographiques, Comoros (web).
15. ↑ "Comoros Cities by Population, 2022".

Sources

• Martin Ottenheimer; Harriet Ottenheimer (1994). Historical Dictionary of the Comoro Islands. African Historical Dictionaries; No. 59. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-585-07021-6.
• Iain Walker (2019). Islands in a Cosmopolitan Sea: A History of the Comoros. London, England: Hurst Publishers. ISBN 9781787381469.

External links

• Union des Comores – Official government website
• Tourism website
• Embassy des Comores – The Federal and Islamic Republic of the Comoros in New York, United States
• Comoros from the BBC News
• Key Development Forecasts for Comoros from International Futures