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Comoros

Capital: Moroni

  • At 1,659 square kilometres, the Comoros is the third-smallest African country, after São Tomé and Príncipe and Seychelles.
  • A coelacanth was rediscovered off the coast in 1952, a species thought to have been extinct for about 66 million years.
  • Mount Karthala, an active shield volcano on Ngazidja, is the country's highest point at 2,361 metres.

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