Comoros 🇰🇲

Comoros is a country in Africa with a population of 836,774. Its capital is Moroni. The official currency is KMF, and the main languages are Comorian, Arabic, French.

Quick facts

Capital: Moroni
Continent: Africa
Population: 836,774
Area: 1,862 km²
Density: 449 people per km²
Currency: KMF
Languages: Comorian, Arabic, French
ISO code: KM

Where Comoros sits

Comoros 🇰🇲 is one of 54 countries in Africa, with its capital at Moroni. It covers 1,862 square kilometres — 172nd in the world — and is home to about 836,774 people, 161st globally.

The countries it shares a continent with include Nigeria, Ethiopia, Egypt, Democratic Republic of the Congo and Tanzania. If you are learning geography region by region — which works far better than alphabetically, because memory for places is spatial — those are the ones to learn alongside it.

How Comoros compares

Raw figures are hard to hold on their own, so it helps to anchor them. In population, Comoros sits closest to Guyana and Bhutan. In land area, its nearest counterparts are Mauritius and Luxembourg.

At 449 people per square kilometre it is about 7.6 times the world average of 59.4. It ranks higher by population than by area, so it is more crowded than its size alone suggests.

Comorian is listed as official in Comoros alone. The KMF is used by Comoros and no one else.

To see Comoros next to every other country, sort the country rankings by population, area or density; its currency and languages are listed alongside every other country's in world currencies and world languages.

How to remember Comoros

Four islands, four stripes, four stars. Moroni, the capital, is on the biggest island, Grande Comore (Ngazidja), below the volcano Mount Karthala.

The flag of Comoros: yellow, white, red, blue and green

🇰🇲 The flag is four horizontal stripes of yellow, white, red and blue, with a green triangle at the hoist holding a white crescent and four white stars. The four stripes and four stars stand for the four main islands of the archipelago: Mohéli, Mayotte, Anjouan and Grande Comore. Mayotte is still governed by France. The crescent and green are symbols of Islam.

Region and neighbours

Comoros is an island country in the Indian Ocean, at the northern end of the Mozambique Channel between Mozambique and Madagascar. As an island country it has no land neighbours.

Three facts about Comoros

Mount Karthala, an active volcano on Grande Comore, is the highest point in the country.
Comoros is the world's largest producer of ylang-ylang, a flower oil used in perfume, supplying about 80% of the world's supply.
The coelacanth, a fish once thought to have died out with the dinosaurs, lives in the waters around the islands.

Sources: Wikipedia: Comoros, Wikipedia: Flag of the Comoros, Wikipedia: Moroni, Comoros, CIA World Factbook.

Quiz yourself on Comoros

African capitals quiz — match Comoros to Moroni
African flags quiz — spot the Comoros flag among its neighbours
Island nations quiz — Comoros is an island country

Quizzes that include Comoros

Three angles are worth covering for any country — where it is, what its flag looks like, and what its capital is. For Comoros those are:

Africa map quiz — place it on a blank map
Africa flags quiz — identify its flag among its neighbours
Africa capitals quiz — match it to Moroni
Comoros capital quiz — five quick questions starting with Comoros
Daily Map Challenge — five countries to find on a blank world map, the same five for everyone each day

Doing all three for one continent before moving on is far more efficient than learning flags globally, then capitals globally, then the map.

Nearby countries

Algeria 🇩🇿 — capital Algiers
Angola 🇦🇴 — capital Luanda
Benin 🇧🇯 — capital Porto-Novo
Botswana 🇧🇼 — capital Gaborone
Burkina Faso 🇧🇫 — capital Ouagadougou
Burundi 🇧🇮 — capital Gitega
Cabo Verde 🇨🇻 — capital Praia
Cameroon 🇨🇲 — capital Yaoundé
Central African Republic 🇨🇫 — capital Bangui
Chad 🇹🇩 — capital N'Djamena
Congo 🇨🇬 — capital Brazzaville
Democratic Republic of the Congo 🇨🇩 — capital Kinshasa

Frequently asked questions

What are the colours of the Comoros flag?

The flag of Comoros is four horizontal stripes of yellow, white, red and blue, with a green triangle at the hoist holding a white crescent and four white stars. The four stripes and four stars stand for the four main islands of the archipelago: Mohéli, Mayotte, Anjouan and Grande Comore. Mayotte is still governed by France. The crescent and green are symbols of Islam.

Which countries border Comoros?

None. Comoros is an island country in the Indian Ocean, at the northern end of the Mozambique Channel between Mozambique and Madagascar, so it has no land borders with other countries.

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