Comoros

Comoros

Comoros ranks 215th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Seychelles, Kiribati, and Guam. Memorable people born in present day Comoros include Azali Assoumani, Ahmed Abdallah, and Ahmed Abdallah Mohamed Sambi. Memorable people who died in Comoros include Ahmed Abdallah, Ali Soilih, 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. A member of the Arab League, it is the only country in the Arab world 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