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Mayotte is an archipelago among the , lying in the Indian Ocean channel between and . It's a French overseas department with a population of 299,348 in 2022.
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is the chief town in Mayotte, with a population of 71,437 in 2017. It's on the main island, Grande-Terre, looking across a 2 km channel to the other island, Petite-Terre, which has the airport.

Mayotte

Latitude of center
-12.8225° or 12° 49′ 21″ south
Longitude of center
45.1469° or 45° 8′ 49″ east
Population
217,000
Area
374 km² (144 miles²)
Elevation
140 metres (459 feet)
Capital
Currency
Euro (EUR)
Phone code
.yt
Internet domain
262
Open­Street­Map ID
node 249399460
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­state
Geo­Names ID
1024031
Wiki­data ID
Q17063
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Mayotte” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Mayotte”
  • Akan: “Mayɔte”
  • Albanian: “Majotë”
  • Albanian: “Majoti”
  • Albanian: “Mayotte”
  • Amharic: “Mayotte”
  • Amharic: “ማዮት”
  • Amharic: “ሜይኦቴ”
  • Angika: “मायोट्ट”
  • Arabic: “مايوت”
  • Aragonese: “Mayotte”
  • Armenian: “Մայոտ”
  • Assamese: “মায়োট্টে”
  • Asturian: “Mayotte”
  • Aymara: “Mayotte suyu”
  • Azerbaijani: “Mayot”
  • Azerbaijani: “Mayotta”
  • Balinese: “Mayotte”
  • Bambara: “Mayoti”
  • Basque: “Mayotte”
  • Bavarian: “Mayotte”
  • Belarusian: “Востраў Маёта”
  • Belarusian: “Маёта”
  • Bengali: “মায়োত”
  • Bengali: “মায়োত্তি”
  • Bengali: “মায়োত্তে”
  • Bishnupriya: “মায়োটি”
  • Bosnian: “Majote”
  • Bosnian: “Mayotte”
  • Breton: “Mayotte”
  • Bulgarian: “Майот”
  • Bulgarian: “Мейот”
  • Burmese: “မေယော့”
  • Catalan: “Mayotte”
  • Cebuano: “Mayotte”
  • Central Bikol: “Mayotte”
  • Chechen: “Майотта”
  • Chinese: “Mayotte”
  • Chinese: “馬約特”
  • Chinese: “马约特 / 馬約特”
  • Chinese: “马约特”
  • Cornish: “Mayotte”
  • Corsican: “Maiotta”
  • Corsican: “Maiutta”
  • Corsican: “Mayotte”
  • Croatian: “Mayotte”
  • Czech: “Mayotte”
  • Danish: “Mayotte”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Mayotte”
  • Dutch: “Mayotte”
  • Dutch: “MYT”
  • Dutch: “YT”
  • Dzongkha: “མེ་ཡོཊ”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “مايوت”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “مايوطه”
  • Esperanto: “Departemento Majoto”
  • Esperanto: “Majoto”
  • Esperanto: “Mayotte”
  • Estonian: “Mayotte”
  • Ewe: “Mayotte nutome”
  • Faroese: “Mayotte”
  • Finnish: “Mayotte”
  • French: “Département de Mayotte”
  • French: “Département-Région de Mayotte”
  • French: “Mayotte”
  • Friulian: “Mayotte”
  • Fulah: “Mayoot”
  • Gagauz: “Mayotte”
  • Galician: “Mayotte”
  • Ganda: “Mayotte”
  • Georgian: “მაიოტა”
  • German: “Mayotte”
  • Gilaki: “مایؤت”
  • Greek: “Μαγιότ”
  • Greek: “Υπερπόντιο διαμέρισμα της Μαγιότ”
  • Guianese Creole French: “Mayòt”
  • Gujarati: “મેયોટ”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Mayotte”
  • Hausa: “Mayoti”
  • Hawaiian: “Maiota”
  • Hebrew: “מאיוט”
  • Hebrew: “מיוט”
  • Hindi: “मायोत”
  • Hindi: “मायोते”
  • Hindi: “मेयोट”
  • Hindi: “मैयट”
  • Hungarian: “Mayotte”
  • Icelandic: “Mayotte”
  • Ido: “Mayotte”
  • Igbo: “Mayotte”
  • Indonesian: “Mayotte”
  • Interlingue: “Mayotte”
  • Irish: “Mayotte”
  • Italian: “Maiotta”
  • Italian: “Mayotte”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Mayot”
  • Japanese: “マヨット”
  • Japanese: “マヨット島”
  • Javanese: “Mayotte”
  • Kalaallisut: “Mayotte”
  • Kannada: “ಮಯೊಟ್ಟೆ”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Mayotta”
  • Kashmiri: “مَییٹ”
  • Kazakh: “Майотт”
  • Kazakh: “Майотта”
  • Khmer: “ម៉ាយុត”
  • Kikuyu: “Mayotte”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Mayoti”
  • Kirghiz: “Майотта”
  • Kongo: “Mayota”
  • Korean: “마요트”
  • Korean: “마요티”
  • Ladino: “Mayotte”
  • Lao: “ມາຢັອດ”
  • Latin: “Maiota”
  • Latin: “Maiotta”
  • Latin: “Mayotta”
  • Latin: “Mayotte”
  • Latvian: “Majota”
  • Ligurian: “Majotte”
  • Ligurian: “Mayotte”
  • Limburgan: “Mayotte”
  • Lingala: “Mayotɛ”
  • Lithuanian: “Majotas”
  • Lithuanian: “Mayotte’as”
  • Lithuanian: “Mayotte”
  • Lombard: “Mayotte”
  • Low German: “Mayotte”
  • Luba-Katanga: “Mayote”
  • Luxembourgish: “Departement Mayotte”
  • Luxembourgish: “Mayotte”
  • Macedonian: “Мајот”
  • Macedonian: “Мајоте”
  • Malagasy: “Mayotte”
  • Malagasy: “Mayôty”
  • Malay: “Mayotte”
  • Malayalam: “മയോട്ടി”
  • Malayalam: “മായോട്ടെ”
  • Maltese: “Mayotte”
  • Marathi: “मायोट्टे”
  • Marathi: “मायोत”
  • Mazanderani: “مایوت”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Mayotte”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Mayotte”
  • Mingrelian: “მაიოტა”
  • Mongolian: “Майотта”
  • Mongolian: “Майотте”
  • Neapolitan: “Mayotte”
  • Nepali: “मायोट्ट”
  • North Ndebele: “Mayotte”
  • Northern Frisian: “Mayotte”
  • Northern Luri: “مایوت”
  • Northern Sami: “Mayotte”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Mayotte”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Mayotte”
  • Norwegian: “Mayotte”
  • Novial: “Mayot”
  • Obolo: “Mayọte”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Maiòta”
  • Oriya: “ମାୟୋଟେ”
  • Ossetian: “Майоттæ”
  • Panjabi: “ਮਾਯੋਟੀ”
  • Panjabi: “ਮੈਯੋਤ”
  • Papiamento: “Mayotte”
  • Pedi: “Mayotte”
  • Persian: “مایوت”
  • Picard: “Mayotte”
  • Piemontese: “Mayotte”
  • Polish: “Majotta”
  • Polish: “Mayotte”
  • Portuguese: “Maiote”
  • Portuguese: “Mayotte”
  • Pushto: “مايوت”
  • Pushto: “مايوټ”
  • Quechua: “Mayotte”
  • Romanian: “departamentul Mayotte”
  • Romanian: “Mayotte”
  • Romansh: “Mayotte”
  • Rundi: “Mayote”
  • Russian: “Майотта”
  • Sango: “Mäyôte”
  • Sardinian: “Mayotte”
  • Scots: “Mayotte”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Mayotte”
  • Serbian: “Мајот”
  • Serbian: “Мајоте”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Mayotte”
  • Shan: “မႃႇယူတ်ႈ”
  • Shona: “Mayotte”
  • Sicilian: “Mayotte”
  • Sindhi: “مياتي”
  • Sinhala: “මයෝට්”
  • Slovak: “Mayotte”
  • Slovenian: “Departma Mayotte”
  • Slovenian: “Mayotte”
  • Somali: “Mayotte”
  • South Azerbaijani: “مایوت”
  • Southern Sotho: “Mayotte”
  • Spanish: “Mayotte”
  • Sundanese: “Mayotte”
  • Swahili: “Mayotte”
  • Swedish: “Mayotte”
  • Swiss German: “Mayotte”
  • Tagalog: “Mayotte”
  • Tajik: “Майотта”
  • Tamil: “மயோட்”
  • Tamil: “மயோட்டே”
  • Tamil: “மெயோட்”
  • Tatar: “Майотта”
  • Telugu: “మయాటి”
  • Telugu: “మయొట్టె”
  • Telugu: “మాయొట్”
  • Thai: “มายอต”
  • Tigrinya: “ሜይኦቴ”
  • Tonga (Tonga Islands): “Maiote”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Mayotte”
  • Turkish: “Mayotte”
  • Turkmen: “Maýotta”
  • Uighur: “مايوتى”
  • Ukrainian: “Майот”
  • Ukrainian: “Майотта”
  • Urdu: “مایوٹ”
  • Uzbek: “Mayotta”
  • Venetian: “Mayotte”
  • Vietnamese: “Mayotte”
  • Vlaams: “Mayotte”
  • Walloon: “Mayotte”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Mayotte”
  • Welsh: “Mayotte”
  • Western Armenian: “Մայոթ”
  • Western Frisian: “Majot”
  • Western Frisian: “Mayotte”
  • Western Mari: “Майотта”
  • Western Panjabi: “مایوٹ”
  • Wolof: “Mayoot”
  • Wolof: “Mayot”
  • Wu Chinese: “馬約特”
  • Yiddish: “מאַיאט”
  • Yoruba: “Mayote”
  • Yoruba: “Mayotte”
  • Yue Chinese: “馬約特”
  • Zeeuws: “Mayotte”
  • Zulu: “i-Mayotte”
  • Zulu: “IMayotte”
  • “Mayotte”
  • “MYT”
  • “YT”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Mayotte”. Photo: MekTypro, CC BY-SA 3.0.