Grand Comore
Grand Comore is the largest island in the East African island nation of Comoros, and location of the capital.
Essential Destinations
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Grand Comore
- Type: autonomous island of the Comoros with 400,000 residents
- Description: largest island of the Comoros
- Also known as: “Didieji Komorai”, “Gran Comore”, “Grand Komoro sala”, “Grande Comore”, “Grande Comoro”, “Grande-Comore”, “Inghāzījā”, “Ngasidja”, “Ngazidja ou Grande Comore”, “Njazidja”, “Njazidža”, “Veliki Komor”, “Гранд-Комор”, “은자지자 섬”, “グランド・コモロ島”, “グランドコモロ”, “ヌジャジジャ島”, “ンジャジジャ島”, and “恩加济贾”
- Category: volcanic island
- Location: Comoros, East African Islands, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-11.5833° or 11° 35′ south
Longitude
43.3333° or 43° 20′ east
Population
400,000
Elevation
514 metres (1,686 feet)
Open location code
5HW5C88M+M8
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In Other Languages
From Amharic to Wu Chinese—“Grand Comore” goes by many names.
- Amharic: “ግራንድ ኮሞሬ”
- Arabic: “القمر الكبرى”
- Arabic: “انغازيجا”
- Arabic: “نجازيجيا”
- Asturian: “Gran Comora”
- Azerbaijani: “Böyük Komor”
- Azerbaijani: “Nqazica”
- Azerbaijani: “Qrand Komor”
- Basque: “Komora Handia”
- Basque: “Komore Handia”
- Belarusian: “Востраў Нгазіджа”
- Belarusian: “Гранд-Камор”
- Belarusian: “Нгазіджа”
- Bengali: “গ্রান্ড কোমোরে”
- Bengali: “গ্রান্ডে কোমোর”
- Bengali: “গ্র্যান্ড কোমোর”
- Breton: “Ngazidja”
- Catalan: “Grande Comore”
- Cebuano: “Grande Comore”
- Chinese: “大科摩罗岛”
- Chinese: “大科摩羅島”
- Chinese: “大葛摩島”
- Croatian: “Grande Comore”
- Czech: “Ngazidja”
- Danish: “Grande Comore”
- Dutch: “Grande Comore”
- Esperanto: “Granda Komoro”
- Finnish: “Iso-Komori”
- French: “Grande Comore”
- French: “Île Autonome de Grande Comore”
- Galician: “Gran Comora”
- Georgian: “ნგაზიჯა”
- German: “Grande Comore”
- Greek: “Μεγάλη Κομόρα”
- Guarani: “Komóra Guasu”
- Gujarati: “ગ્રાન્દે કોમોર”
- Hausa: “Babbar Komor”
- Hausa: “Grande Comore”
- Hebrew: “גרנד קומורו”
- Hindi: “ग्रैंडे कोमोर”
- Indonesian: “Komoro Besar”
- Italian: “Grande Comore”
- Japanese: “グランドコモロ島”
- Javanese: “Grande Comore”
- Kannada: “ಗ್ರಾಂಡೆ ಕೊಮೊರ್”
- Kazakh: “Ұлы Коморо”
- Kirghiz: “Чоң Комор”
- Korean: “그랑드코모르 섬”
- Korean: “그랑드코모르섬”
- Latvian: “Nazidža (Grankomora)”
- Latvian: “Ngazidža”
- Lithuanian: “Grand Komoras”
- Malagasy: “Ngazidja”
- Malagasy: “Ngazija”
- Malay: “Grande Comore”
- Maore Comorian: “N’gazidja”
- Marathi: “ग्रान्दे कोमोर”
- Mazanderani: “گت قمر”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Grande Comore”
- Norwegian: “Grande Comore”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Granda Comòra”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Ngazidja”
- Oromo: “Comore Guddaa”
- Panjabi: “ਗ੍ਰੈਂਡ ਕੋਮੋਰੇ”
- Persian: “گراند کومور”
- Persian: “گرند قمر”
- Polish: “Wielki Komor”
- Portuguese: “Grande Comore”
- Pushto: “لویه کومور”
- Russian: “Нгазиджа”
- Scots: “Grande Comore”
- Serbian: “Велики Комори”
- Sinhala: “ග්රන්ඩේ කොමෝර්”
- Slovenian: “Grande Comore”
- Somali: “Comore Weyn”
- Spanish: “Gran Comora”
- Swahili: “Ngazija”
- Swedish: “Grande Comore”
- Tajik: “Комори Бузург”
- Tamil: “கிராண்டே காமோரே”
- Tatar: “Зур Коморе”
- Telugu: “గ్రాండ్ కోమోర్”
- Thai: “เกาะกร็องด์กอมอร์”
- Turkish: “Büyük Komor”
- Turkish: “Grande Comore”
- Ukrainian: “Великий Комор”
- Urdu: “قمر الکبری”
- Uzbek: “Katta Komor”
- Vietnamese: “Grande Comore”
- Western Frisian: “Grut Komoare”
- Wu Chinese: “大科摩罗岛”
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