Also called Mayotte; one of the Comoro Islands situated at the northern end of the Mozambique Channel, roughly halfway between the Malagay republic (Madagascar) and the southern African mainland.
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374 sq.km
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77,300
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Mamoundzou-Dzaoudzi
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Muslim
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French
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Mayotte remained a French territory in 1976, when the other islands of the Comoro group became independant.