Svensk definition
Ögrupp som utgör en afrikansk stat i Indiska oceanen, nordväst om Madagaskar. Landets yta är 2200 km2, och folkmängden uppgår till ca 600 000 invånare (2001). Huvudstaden Moroni ligger på ön Ngazidja.
Comoros
Komorerna
Engelsk definition
A group of Indian Ocean Islands, the islands of Great Comoro, Anjouan, Mayotte, and Moheli, lying between northeast Mozambique and northwest Madagascar. The capital is Moroni. In 1914 they became a colony attached to Madagascar administratively and were made a French overseas territory in 1947. Except for Mayotte which remained French, Comoros became an independent republic in 1975. Comoros represents the Arabic qamar, moon, said by some scholars to be linked with the mystical Mountains of the Moon said to be somewhere in equatorial Africa. (From Webster's New Geographical Dictionary, 1988, p283 & Room, Brewer's Dictionary of Names, 1992, p122)
Svenska synonymer
Komoroöerna — Mayotte
Engelska synonymer
Iles Comores — Comoro Islands — Mayotte