MAYOTTESouthern Africa, island in the Mozambique
Channel, about one-half of the way from northern Madagascar to northern
Mozambique.
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Compagnie de Mayotte
Mayotte was ceded to France
along with the other islands of the Comoros group in 1843. It was the
only island in the archipelago that voted in 1974 to retain its link
with France and forego independence