Comoros

Comoros

Comoros ranks 211th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind San Marino, Gibraltar, and Kiribati. Memorable people born in present day Comoros include Ahmed Abdallah, Azali Assoumani, and Ahmed Abdallah Mohamed Sambi. Memorable people who died in Comoros include Ahmed Abdallah, Mohamed Taki Abdoulkarim, and Said Mohamed Djohar. Comoros has been the birth place of many politicians and the death place of many politicians.

The Comoros, officially the Union of the Comoros, is an archipelagic country made up of three islands in Southeastern Africa, located at the northern end of the Mozambique Channel in the Indian Ocean. Its capital and largest city is Moroni. The religion of the majority of the population, and the official state religion, is Sunni Islam. Comoros proclaimed its independence from France on 6 July 1975. The Comoros is the only country of the Arab League which is entirely in the Southern Hemisphere. It is a member state of the African Union, the Organisation internationale de la Francophonie, the Organisation of Islamic Co-operation, and the Indian Ocean Commission. The country has three official languages: Shikomori, French and Arabic. Read more on Wikipedia