What the records say
- When
- 1976
- Kind
- Territorial change
- Where
- Mayotte
- Coordinates
- 12.82° S, 45.15° E
- Process
- secession
- Type
- Secession (establish new indep. entities)
- Pop
- 38000
- Area km2
- 374
- Gaining
- France
- Losing
- Comoros
Placed at the area, not an exact site.
Mayotte
Overseas department of France
Mayotte, officially the Department of Mayotte, is an overseas department and region and single territorial collectivity of France. It is one of the overseas departments of France as well as one of the 18 regions of France, with the same status as the departments of Metropolitan France. It is an outermost region of the European Union and, as an overseas department of France, part of the eurozone.
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The source
- COW Territorial Change v6Correlates of War ProjectCorrelates of War: free use with citation