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Comoros

The Comoros is an island nation off the coast of , in the between northern and northern .
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include Moroni and Grand Comore.

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is the capital and largest city of the Comoros. It is a lively city and an ideal base to organise trips around the island, as there are several travel agencies and you can find any kind of service you may need by asking people around.

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is the largest island in the island nation of Comoros, and location of the capital.

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is an autonomous volcanic island in the in the southwestern Indian Ocean, part of the Union of the Comoros. It is known in Shikomori as Ndzuani, Ndzuwani or Nzwani, and, until the early twentieth century when the name fell out of general use, in English as Johanna.

Destinations to Discover

Explore places such as Moheli.

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Mohéli, also known as Mwali, is an autonomously-governed island that forms part of the Union of the Comoros. It is the smallest of the three major islands in the country.

Comoros

  • Type: Country with 614,000 residents
  • Description: sovereign state situated on an archipelago in the Indian Ocean off the eastern coast of Africa
  • Also known as: “Al Qumur”, “al-Ittiḥād al-Qumurī”, “COM”, “Comoro Islands”, “Ittiḩad al Qamar”, “Jumhūrīyat al Qamar al Muttaḩidah”, “Jumhūrīyat al Qumur al Ittiḩādīyah al Islāmīyah”, “Jumhūrīyat Juzur al Qamar al Ittiḩādīyah al Islāmīyah”, “Jumhūrīyat Juzur al Qamar al Muttaḩidah”, “Juzur al Qamar”, “Juzur al-Qamar”, “Juzur al-Qumur”, “km”, “Las Comoras”, “Massiwa ya komori”, “ouvoimoja wakomori”, “Republic of the Comoros”, “Territory of the Comoro Islands”, “the Comoros”, “Udzima wa Komori”, “Union des Comores”, “Union of the Comoros”, and “الاتحاد ﺍﻟﻘﻤﺮي”
  • Historically known as: “Federal Islamic Republic of the Comoros”
  • Languages: Arabic and French
  • Neighbors: , , , , and
  • Categories: sovereign state, island country, archipelagic state, and locality
  • Location: ,
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Latitude of center
-12.1857° or 12° 11′ 9″ south
Longitude of center
44.2378° or 44° 14′ 16″ east
Population
614,000
Area
2,170 km² (838 miles²)
Elevation
1,136 metres (3,727 feet)
Capital
Moroni
Currency
Franc (KMF)
Phone code
.km
Internet domain
269
Open­Street­Map ID
node 249399360
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­country
Geo­Names ID
921929
Wiki­data ID
Q970
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In Other Languages

From Abkhazian to Zulu—“Comoros” goes by many names.
  • Abkhazian: “Комор”
  • Abkhazian: “Комортәи Адгьылбжьахақәа Реидгыла”
  • Abkhazian: “Комортәи Адгьылбжьахақәа”
  • Afrikaans: “Comore-eilande”
  • Afrikaans: “Comore”
  • Akan: “Kɔmɔrɔs”
  • Albanian: “Komore”
  • Albanian: “Komoret”
  • Amharic: “ኮሞሮስ”
  • Angika: “कोमोरोज”
  • Arabic: “إتَّحَاد اَلْقَمَر”
  • Arabic: “اتحاد جزر القمر”
  • Arabic: “الاتحاد القمري”
  • Arabic: “الاتّحاد القُمُري”
  • Arabic: “جزر القمر”
  • Arabic: “جزر القُمُر”
  • Arabic: “جمهورية القمر المتحدة”
  • Arabic: “جمهورية جزر القمر الاتحادية الإسلامية”
  • Arabic: “جمهورية جزرالقمر المتحدة”
  • Aragonese: “Comoras”
  • Armenian: “Կոմորյան կղզիներ”
  • Armenian: “Կոմորյան Կղզիներ”
  • Armenian: “Կոմորոս”
  • Arpitan: “Comores”
  • Assamese: “কোমোৰোজ”
  • Asturian: “Comores”
  • Azerbaijani: “Komor Adaları İttifaqı”
  • Azerbaijani: “Komor adaları”
  • Azerbaijani: “Qəmər adaları”
  • Balinese: “Komoro”
  • Balinese: “Komoros”
  • Bambara: “Komore gun”
  • Bambara: “Komɔri”
  • Banjar: “Komoro”
  • Bashkir: “Комор”
  • Basque: “Komoreak”
  • Bavarian: “Komorn”
  • Belarusian: “Каморскія астравы”
  • Belarusian: “Каморскія Астравы”
  • Belarusian: “Каморы”
  • Bengali: “কমোরোস”
  • Bengali: “কোমোরোস”
  • Betawi: “Komoro”
  • Bhojpuri: “कोमोरोस”
  • Bishnupriya: “কোমোরোস”
  • Bislama: “Comoros”
  • Bosnian: “Komori”
  • Bosnian: “Komorska Ostrva”
  • Breton: “Komorez”
  • Bulgarian: “Комори”
  • Bulgarian: “Коморски о-ви”
  • Bulgarian: “Коморски острови”
  • Burmese: “ကိုမိုရိုစ်”
  • Burmese: “ကိုမိုရိုနိုင်ငံ”
  • Catalan: “Comores”
  • Cebuano: “Comoros”
  • Central Bikol: “Komoros”
  • Central Kurdish: “دوورگەکانی قەمەر”
  • Central Kurdish: “یەکێتیی قەمەری”
  • Chavacano: “Komoras”
  • Chechen: “Комора Гlайреш”
  • Chechen: “Комораш”
  • Chechen: “Коморийн гӀайренаш”
  • Cherokee: “ᎪᎼᎳᏍ”
  • Chinese: “Comoros”
  • Chinese: “Kēmóluò”
  • Chinese: “科摩罗 / 葛摩 / 科摩洛”
  • Chinese: “科摩罗”
  • Chinese: “科摩羅”
  • Chinese: “葛摩”
  • Chuvash: “Комор утравĕсем”
  • Cornish: “Komoros”
  • Cornish: “Komorys”
  • Corsican: “Comori”
  • Corsican: “Unione di i Comori”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Komorlar”
  • Croatian: “Komori”
  • Croatian: “Unija Komora”
  • Czech: “Komory”
  • Dagbani: “Comoros”
  • Danish: “Comorerne”
  • Dhivehi: “ޖުޒުރުޤަމަރު”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Komoroy”
  • Dotyali: “कोमोरोस”
  • Dutch: “COM”
  • Dutch: “Comoren”
  • Dutch: “KM”
  • Dutch: “Unie der Comoren”
  • Dzongkha: “ཀོ་མོ་རོས”
  • Eastern Mari: “Камор Отро-влак”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “جزر القمر”
  • Esperanto: “Komoroj”
  • Esperanto: “Unio de Komoroj”
  • Estonian: “Comoros”
  • Estonian: “Komoori Liit”
  • Estonian: “Komoorid”
  • Ewe: “Comoros”
  • Ewe: “Komoros nutome”
  • Extremaduran: “Comoras”
  • Faroese: “Komoroyggjar”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Comoros”
  • Finnish: “Komorien liitto”
  • Finnish: “Komorit”
  • French: “Comores (Archipel)”
  • French: “Comores”
  • French: “État Comorien”
  • French: “KM”
  • French: “l’Union des Comores”
  • French: “République des Comores”
  • French: “République Fédérale et Islamique des Comores”
  • French: “Territoire des Comores”
  • French: “Union des Comores”
  • French: “République Fédérale Islamique des Comores” (historical)
  • Fulah: “Komoor”
  • Gagauz: “Komorlar”
  • Galician: “Comores”
  • Ganda: “Bizinga by’eKomoro”
  • Ganda: “Comoros”
  • Georgian: “კომორის კუნძულები”
  • Georgian: “კომორის კუნძულების კავშირი”
  • German: “Komoren”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “al-Ittiḥād al-Qumurī”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “COM”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Comoros”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Juzur al-Qamar”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Juzur al-Qumur”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “the Comoros”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Union of the Comoros”
  • Gilaki: “کؤمؤر”
  • Goan Konkani: “कोमोरोस”
  • Greek: “Κομόρες”
  • Greek: “Κομόρος”
  • Greek: “νησιωτικό κράτος στον Ινδικό Ωκεανό”
  • Guarani: “Komóra”
  • Guianese Creole French: “Komor”
  • Gujarati: “કોમોરસ”
  • Gujarati: “કોમોરોસ”
  • Haitian: “Komò”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Comoros”
  • Hausa: “Komoros”
  • Hausa: “Kwamoras”
  • Hebrew: “קומורו”
  • Hebrew: “קומורוס”
  • Hindi: “कोमोरस”
  • Hindi: “कोमोरोस”
  • Hungarian: “Comor-szigetek”
  • Hungarian: “Comore-szigetek”
  • Hungarian: “Comore-szigeteki Unió”
  • Icelandic: “Comoros”
  • Icelandic: “Kómoreyjar”
  • Icelandic: “Kómorur”
  • Ido: “Komori”
  • Igbo: “Comoros”
  • Igbo: “Comorosu”
  • Iloko: “Komoros”
  • Inari Sami: “Komoreh”
  • Indonesian: “Komoro”
  • Indonesian: “Komoros”
  • Indonesian: “Uni Komoro”
  • Interlingua: “Comores”
  • Interlingua: “Comoros”
  • Interlingue: “Comoros”
  • Irish: “Aontas Oileáin Chomóra”
  • Irish: “Oileáin Chomóra”
  • Italian: “Comore”
  • Italian: “Unione delle Comore”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Komoros”
  • Japanese: “コモロ・イスラム連邦共和国”
  • Japanese: “コモロ”
  • Japanese: “コモロ連合”
  • Japanese: “科摩羅”
  • Javanese: “Komoro”
  • Kabyle: “Qamar”
  • Kalaallisut: “Comoros”
  • Kalmyk: “Комормудин Арлин Ниицән”
  • Kannada: “ಕೊಮೊರೊಸ್”
  • Kashmiri: “کَمورَس”
  • Kazakh: “Камарлар”
  • Kazakh: “Комор аралдары”
  • Kazakh: “Коморлар”
  • Khmer: “កូម័រ”
  • Kikuyu: “Comoros”
  • Kikuyu: “Komoro”
  • Kinaray-A: “Kakomorahan”
  • Kinaray-A: “Kakomorhan”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Komore”
  • Kirghiz: “Комор”
  • Kirghiz: “Коморлор”
  • Kirghiz: “Коморос”
  • Komering: “Komoro”
  • Kongo: “Komoro”
  • Korean: “코모로”
  • Korean: “코모로스”
  • Kotava: “Komoria”
  • Kurdish: “Komor”
  • Ladin: “Comores”
  • Ladino: “Isolas Komoras”
  • Ladino: “Komoras”
  • Lao: “ໂຄໂມໂຣສ”
  • Lao: “ປະເທດໂກມໍຣົດ”
  • Latin: “Insulae Comorianae”
  • Latvian: “Komoras”
  • Latvian: “Komoru salas”
  • Ligurian: “Isoe Comore”
  • Limburgan: “Comore”
  • Lingala: “Komorɛ”
  • Lingala: “Komori”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Comori”
  • Literary Chinese: “葛摩”
  • Lithuanian: “Komorai”
  • Livvi: “Komorat”
  • Lombard: “Cumor”
  • Low German: “Komoren”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Komory”
  • Luba-Katanga: “Komoru”
  • Lule Sami: “Komåvrrå”
  • Luxembourgish: “Komoren”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Comore”
  • Macedonian: “Комори”
  • Macedonian: “Коморски Острови”
  • Madurese: “Komoro”
  • Malagasy: “Komaoro”
  • Malagasy: “Kômaoro”
  • Malagasy: “Kômôro”
  • Malay: “Comoros”
  • Malayalam: “കൊമോറസ്”
  • Malayalam: “കോമൊറോസ്”
  • Maltese: “Comoros”
  • Maltese: “Komoros”
  • Maltese: “Unjoni ta’ Comoros”
  • Manipuri: “ꯀꯣꯃꯣꯔꯣꯁ”
  • Manx: “Ellanyn Chomoro”
  • Maori: “Komoro”
  • Marathi: “कोमोरोज”
  • Marathi: “कोमोरोस”
  • Mazanderani: “کومور”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Comoros”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Comoros”
  • Minangkabau: “Komoro”
  • Mingrelian: “კომორიშ კოკეფიშ რსხუ”
  • Mirandese: “Quemores”
  • Moksha: “Комортне”
  • Mongolian: “Комор”
  • Mongolian: “Коморос”
  • Mongolian: “Коморын арлууд”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “جزر لقومور”
  • Nauru: “Komorot”
  • Navajo: “Ooljééʼ Bikéyah Yázhí”
  • Navajo: “Ooljééʼ Biyaadi Kéyah Dah Ndaaʼeełí”
  • Nepali: “कोमोरोस”
  • Newari: “कोमोरोस”
  • North Ndebele: “Khomoro”
  • Northern Frisian: “Komooren”
  • Northern Luri: “کومور”
  • Northern Sami: “Komoraid uniovdna”
  • Northern Sami: “Komorat”
  • Northern Sami: “Komoros”
  • Northern Sami: “Komorosullot”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Komorene”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Komorane”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Komorene”
  • Norwegian: “Komorene”
  • Novial: “Komoros”
  • Obolo: “Komoros”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Comòras”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Comòros”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Comoros”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Comorosrice”
  • Oriya: “କମୋରୋସ”
  • Oriya: “କୋମୋରସ୍”
  • Oriya: “କୋମୋରୋସ”
  • Oromo: “Komoroos”
  • Ossetian: “Комортæ”
  • Ossetian: “Коморы сакъадæхтæ”
  • Pali: “कोमोरोस”
  • Pampanga: “Comoras”
  • Pampanga: “Komoras”
  • Panjabi: “ਕਾਮਾਰੋਸ”
  • Panjabi: “ਕੋਮੋਰੋਸ”
  • Papiamento: “Comores”
  • Pedi: “Comoros”
  • Persian: “کمورس”
  • Persian: “کومور”
  • Persian: “کومورو”
  • Persian: “مجمع‌الجزایر قمر”
  • Piemontese: “Comòre”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “KM”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Komoros”
  • Polish: “Komory”
  • Portuguese: “Comores”
  • Portuguese: “Ilhas Comores”
  • Pushto: “اتحادالقمري”
  • Pushto: “قمرټاپوګان”
  • Pushto: “قمرټاپوګانو ټولنه”
  • Pushto: “کوموروس”
  • Quechua: “Comoras”
  • Quechua: “Kumurakuna”
  • Quechua: “Kumurikuna”
  • Rakhine: “ကိုမိုရို ပြည်ထောင်စု”
  • Romanian: “Comore”
  • Romanian: “Comoros”
  • Romansh: “Comoras”
  • Rundi: “Izinga rya Komore”
  • Russia Buriat: “Коморой аралнууд”
  • Russia Buriat: “Коморын арлууд”
  • Russian: “Коморские о-ва”
  • Russian: “Коморские острова”
  • Russian: “Коморское государство”
  • Russian: “Коморы”
  • Russian: “Союз Коморских Островов”
  • Russian: “Федеративная Исламская Республика Коморские Острова”
  • Samoan: “Comoros”
  • Samogitian: “Kuomorā”
  • Sango: “Kömôro”
  • Sanskrit: “कोमोरोस”
  • Santali: “ᱠᱳᱢᱳᱨᱳᱥ”
  • Saraiki: “اتحاد کوموروس”
  • Sardinian: “Comoras”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Komore”
  • Scots: “Comoros”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Comoros”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Na h-Eileanan Chomoro”
  • Serbian: “Komori”
  • Serbian: “Комори”
  • Serbian: “Коморос”
  • Serbian: “Коморска Острва”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Komori”
  • Shan: “မိူင်းၶူဝ်ႇမူဝ်ႇရူတ်ႈ”
  • Shona: “Comoros”
  • Shona: “Komori”
  • Shona: “Komoro”
  • Sicilian: “Comori”
  • Silesian: “Kůmory”
  • Sindhi: “ڪوموروس”
  • Sinhala: “කොමරොස්”
  • Sinhala: “කොමොරෝස්”
  • Skolt Sami: “Komoor”
  • Skolt Sami: “Komoori lett”
  • Slovak: “Komorský zväz”
  • Slovak: “Komory”
  • Slovenian: “Komori”
  • Somali: “Komooros”
  • Somali: “Komoros”
  • South Azerbaijani: “کومور آدالاری”
  • Southern Sotho: “Comoros”
  • Spanish: “Comoras”
  • Spanish: “Comores”
  • Spanish: “Union de las Comoras”
  • Spanish: “Unión de las Comoras”
  • Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⵜⵉⴳⵣⵉⵔⵉⵏ ⵏ ⵡⴰⵢⵢⵓⵔ”
  • Sundanese: “Komoro”
  • Swahili: “Komori”
  • Swahili: “Komoro”
  • Swahili: “Visiwa vya Komoro”
  • Swati: “IKhomoro”
  • Swedish: “Comorerna”
  • Swedish: “Komorerna”
  • Swedish: “Unionen Comorerna”
  • Swedish: “Unionen Komorerna”
  • Swiss German: “Komoren”
  • Sylheti: “ꠇꠝꠞꠍ”
  • Tachelhit: “Tigzirin n Lqumuṛ”
  • Tagalog: “Comoros”
  • Tagalog: “Komoros”
  • Tajik: “Иттиҳоди Қамар”
  • Tajik: “Комор”
  • Tajik: “Ҷазираҳои Комор”
  • Talysh: “Komor ləpəkon”
  • Talysh: “Komoroy”
  • Tamil: “கொமொரோசு”
  • Tamil: “கோமரோஸ்”
  • Tatar: “Комор утраулары”
  • Tatar: “Коморлар”
  • Telugu: “కొమొరోస్”
  • Thai: “คอโมโรส”
  • Thai: “ประเทศคอโมโรส”
  • Tibetan: “ཁོ་མོ་རོ་སུ།”
  • Tigrinya: “ኮሞሮስ”
  • Tonga (Tonga Islands): “Komolosi”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Komoren”
  • Tsonga: “Comoros”
  • Tumbuka: “Comoros”
  • Tunisian Arabic: “جزر القمر”
  • Turkish: “Comoros”
  • Turkish: “Komor”
  • Turkish: “Komorlar”
  • Turkish: “Komoros”
  • Turkmen: “Komor adalary”
  • Turkmen: “Komor Adalary”
  • Udmurt: “Коморъёс”
  • Uighur: “كومور ئاراللىرى”
  • Uighur: “كومورو”
  • Ukrainian: “Комори”
  • Ukrainian: “Коморскі острови”
  • Ukrainian: “Коморські Острови”
  • Ukrainian: “Союз Коморських Островів”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Komory”
  • Urdu: “اتحاد القمری”
  • Urdu: “کوموروس”
  • Uzbek: “Komor orollari”
  • Uzbek: “Komorlar”
  • Uzbek: “Komoros”
  • Venetian: “Comore”
  • Veps: “Komoran Sared”
  • Vietnamese: “Cô-mô (Comoros)”
  • Vietnamese: “Cô-mô”
  • Vietnamese: “Comores”
  • Vietnamese: “Comoros”
  • Vlaams: “Comoorn”
  • Volapük: “Komoruäns”
  • Võro: “Komooriq”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Comoros”
  • Welsh: “Comoros”
  • Welsh: “Y Comoros”
  • Western Balochi: “کوموروس”
  • Western Frisian: “Comoren”
  • Western Frisian: “Komoaren”
  • Western Panjabi: “اتحاد القمری”
  • Wolof: “Komoor”
  • Wu Chinese: “科摩羅”
  • Yakut: “Комордар”
  • Yiddish: “קאמאראס”
  • Yoruba: “Kòmórò”
  • Yoruba: “Kòmòrósì”
  • Yue Chinese: “科摩羅”
  • Zeeuws: “Comoôr’n”
  • Zhuang: “Comoros”
  • Zulu: “i-Comoros”
  • Zulu: “IsiKhomorosi”
  • “COM”
  • “Comoras”
  • “Comore”
  • “KM”
  • “Komooriq”
  • “Komoro”
  • “Kuomorā”
  • “ma Komo”
  • “कोमोरोस”

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