Map of Comoros

Comoros is located in Africa. Its territory lies in the southern and eastern hemispheres, centred near 12.2° S, 44.2° E. It is an island nation and shares no land borders with any other country, so every approach to it is made by sea or by air. Within Africa, a continent of 54 countries bordered by the Atlantic Ocean and the Indian Ocean, Comoros is mapped here in full with its borders, capital and key facts.

Comoros is an island state with no land borders. The nearest countries are reached across open water rather than over a shared frontier.

Comoros covers about 1,862 km² (719 sq mi). That makes it the 172nd-largest country in the world by area and the 52nd-largest in Africa, larger by area than 2 of the continent’s 54 countries.

It is home to a population of roughly 919,901, the 160th-largest in the world and the 51st-largest in Africa, accounting for about 0.1% of the continent’s people. With that land area, Comoros has an average population density of about 494 people per km². Among the 54 countries of Africa it stands 51st by population and 52nd by area.

The seat of government is Moroni, and the official currency is the Comorian franc (KMF, Fr), and the main official languages are Arabic, French and Comorian. Traffic drives on the right, and the country observes the time zone UTC+03:00.

Comoros carries the ISO country codes KM and COM, dials on the international calling code +269 and uses the .km internet domain.

Comoros has no land neighbours. It is an island nation, so the countries nearest to it are reached across open water rather than over a shared border. Its position at 12.2° S, 44.2° E places it about 1,351 km from the equator, in the southern and eastern hemispheres, within the wider region of Africa.

The interactive map above is centred on 12.2° S, 44.2° E and opens at zoom level 9, framing Comoros within Africa. A marker pin sits at the country’s approximate geographic centre; drag the map or use scroll and pinch to move from a regional overview down to the streets of Moroni. The map is drawn from OpenStreetMap data, the same open dataset used across this site, so place names, roads and coastlines stay consistent from one country to the next.

Comoros lies about 1,351 km from the equator, in the southern and eastern hemispheres of the globe. As an island, its full extent is best seen by zooming out to take in the surrounding sea.

Comoros keeps a single standard time zone, UTC+03:00. That figure is the country’s offset from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), the modern reference that for everyday purposes matches Greenwich Mean Time, so local clocks sit +03:00 relative to UTC before any seasonal daylight saving change.

The official currency is the Comorian franc (KMF, Fr).

The official languages are Arabic, French and Comorian, which is what appears on signs, documents and many of the place labels you will see on the map.

For practical reference, vehicles drive on the right-hand side of the road, the international dialling code is +269 and websites commonly use the .km internet domain.

In short, Comoros is an island nation in Africa, with no land borders. Its capital is Moroni. Comoros has a population of about 919,901 and covers around 1,862 km² (719 sq mi), ranking it 160th in the world by population and 172nd by area. The interactive map, facts table and questions on this page bring those details together in one place for Comoros.

The flag of Comoros is composed of four equal horizontal bands of yellow, white, red and blue, with a green isosceles triangle superimposed on the hoist side of the field. This triangle has its base on the hoist end, spans about two-fifth the width of the field and bears a fly-side facing white crescent and four five-pointed white stars arranged in a vertical line along the opening of the crescent.

The flag of Comoros is shown above as an emoji, rendered by your device’s own font; see it alongside every other nation on the flags of the world page.