Comoros
Comoros (officially Union of the Comoros) is a country in Eastern Africa, with its capital at Moroni, and is home to roughly 866.6K people.
Its official languages are Arabic, French, Comorian; the currency in circulation is Comorian franc (Fr); people from here are called Comoran.
- »It has seen a very large number of coups and attempted coups since independence in 1975.
Its territory comes in pieces: one mainland carrying 61% of the area, plus two further landmasses large enough to show up at map scale.
Comoros shares no land border with anything, so every approach is by sea or air. The closest other territories on file are Madagascar (931 km), Malawi (998 km) and Mozambique (1,047 km), measured centre to centre.
Moroni means 'at the fire', a reference to the volcano Mount Karthala that rises directly behind the city.
1,679 km² (648 sq mi), 173rd largest of 198 countries and territories on file.
Population 866,628, 161st of 198 on file. That averages 516 per km² (1,337 per sq mi).
The four stars and four stripes stand for the four islands of the archipelago, including Mayotte, which voted to remain French and which the Comoros still claims.