10 Things You Didn't Know About Mayotte
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- Опубликовано: 6 окт 2020
- 10 Things You Didn’t Know About Mayotte.
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Hello Displorers, welcome to another exciting video presented to you by Displore and thanks for watching. In this video, we will take an indebt look at one of the world’s most unnoticeable territories, Mayotte. Mayotte is an overseas department and region of France officially named the Department of Mayotte. It consists of a main island, Grande-Terre or Maore, a smaller island, Petite-Terre or Pamanzi, and several islets around these two. Mayotte is part of the Comoros archipelago, located in the northern Mozambique Channel in the Indian Ocean off the coast of Southeast Africa, between north western Madagascar and northeaster Mozambique. Mayotte is nevertheless much more prosperous than the other countries of the Mozambique Channel, making it a major destination for illegal immigration.Mayotte's land area is 374 square kilometres and, with its 279,471 people according to January 2020 official estimates, is very densely populated at 747 inhabitants per km2. The biggest city and prefecture is Mamoudzou on Grande-Terre but however, the Dzaoudzi-Pamandzi International Airport is located on the neighbouring island of Petite-Terre. The territory is also known as Maore, the native name of its main island, especially by advocates of its inclusion in the Union of the Comoros.
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The island was populated from neighbouring East Africa with later arrival of Arabs, who brought Islam and by 1500, sultanate was established. In the 19th century, Mayotte was conquered by Andriantsoly, former king of Iboina on Madagascar, and later by the neighbouring islands Mohéli and then Anjouan before being purchased by France in 1841. There are still many aspects of this territory which are thrilling and hence why we bring you 10 things you probably didn’t know about Mayotte.
1. Mayotte is Not an Independent Nation
In 1500, the Maore sultanate was established on the island, in 1503, Mayotte was observed and named by Portuguese explorers, but not colonized. The island has known several eras of wealth especially during the 11th century at Acoua or between 9th and 12th centuries at Dembéni, being an important part of the Swahili coast culture, which is why some of its native languages resemble Swahili. However, its sister island Anjouan was preferred by international traders due to its better suitability to large boats, and, for a long time, Mayotte remained poorly developed compared to the three other Comoros islands, often being targeted by pirates and Malagasy or Comorian raids.France gained colonial control over Mayotte in 1843 making it the most populous of the four Comoros Islands in the Indian Ocean off Mozambique in Africa. In July 2000, 70% of voters opted to accept greater autonomy but to remain a part of France. In a 2009 referendum, voters approved accession to the status of department by a large majority. In fact, 95% voted in favour of departmental status. On March 31, 2011, Mayotte became an overseas department. An overseas department is part of France that is located elsewhere, not a part of mainland France. The outcome of the referenda by the people of Mayotte in favour of changing the island's status from a French "overseas community" to become France's 101st département implied that its non-official traditional Islamic law, applied in some aspects of the day-to-day life, will be gradually abolished and replaced by the uniform French civil code. On January 1, 2014, Mayotte was set to become part of the European Union which will make Mayotte the European Union's outermost region.
2. It is a Largely a Volcanic Zone
Mayotte is a primarily volcanic island rising steeply from the bed of the ocean to a height of 660 metres on Mont Bénara.Two volcanic centres are reported, a southern one, with a breached crater to the NW, and a northern centre with a breached crater to the south-east. Mont Bénara is on the curving ridge between these two peaks, approximately at the contact point of the two structures. Volcanic activity started about 7.7 million years ago in the south, ceasing about 2.7 million years ago. In the north, activity started about 4.7 million years ago and lasted until about 1.4 million years ago. Both centres had several phases of activity and the most recent age reported for an ash band is 7000-year BP.
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I didnt even know mayotte
😂😂😂😂😂 Same.
Its actually a small beautiful island
Mayotte citizens are lucky cos they are part of the European union cos they are a French territory so they can travel to Europe without a visa, and visit other schengen countries in Europe and also emigrate and work there without a visa.. They have superior advantage 👍 They just need to take education seriously, which they don't seem to do, sadly..😮
somes correction, the archipelago of Mayotte is indeed compose by two main land Grande terre (literally the big land) in french or other language it hasn't another name, same for the second main land petite terre. All she said look like come from wikipedia. Andriantsoly didn't conquer anything, come on, after fleeing from madagascar he became some sort of pirate or mercenary. the history is a bit complex but with some political maneuver and probably assassination, he became the new/last sultan of Mayotte., the second smallest island of t5he archipelago of comoros. He didn't have the human resource after many years of war and razzia /raid from the neighborhood, he couldn't go to war again the comorian, Madagascar so he did what has the most logical choice.
Disclaimer 5: the majority of the population came from Madagascar, comoro and some from continental Africa, this poor people are poor, they come their hoping to have access to all french social and economic advantage and they don't. Most mahoran have access to water, and electricity, have their land, even if they aren't rich with european standard with that they can live a descent live, illegal migrant don't have that.
Disclaimer 6: there isn't such thing ass comorian culture, there is many divergence on the cultural aspect purely, wedding aren't the same, language neither, how they interpret their religion, organization of the society isn't the same etc.
Thank you very much for the information.
Merci beaucoup a l'information. (My French is bad, sorry)
A french colony...but the people are living below poverty line...I bet the french are not living below poverty line.
That's because people from the Comoros are coming illegally to Mayotte to have their children born french in hospitals with better conditions than in their own country
@@glumacuemil maybe you should study and research about french colonization around the world to get an inkling about what I commented. The Comoriens are not responsible for Mayotte folks living below poverty line. It's the system that the french installed on the island.
@@jeanrusso3822 Ofc it's the fault of France bc there surely aren't 100k people that are immigrant and Mayotte's total population is around 200k or something
@@glumacuemil Around half of the population in Mayotte is of foreign nationality according to French statistics. Most are from the Comoros but some are from other countries too. If half of the population of Mayotte are from the poorer Comoros islands, that will affect the overall economic statistics for Mayotte.
@@jeanrusso3822 Some French people do live below the poverty line, but not at the same rate as in Mayotte. And to be clear, we're talking about living below the French national poverty line, not the international poverty line. 959 Euros per month (7:18) is a high poverty threshhold for that part of the world and Mayotte is measured against that standard only because they are a part of France, not because it accurately reflects their own local economic situation. The relatively high GDP per capita of Mayotte is still less than the annual French national poverty line. It's interesting that Mayotte is considered to have a high GDP per capita for that part of the world, while at the same time being the poorest region of France and the European Union.
This is a very beautiful island I'm Watching From My Bangladesh 🇧🇩🇿🇦
Wow..Beautiful places in African shores .. thnx for sharing
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Not independent but live in freedom more than people of Guinea ecuatorial,in rwanda,in Eritrea, in Egypt, en swaziland....
It's still a colony of France and same with French Guiana. Still poorer and neglected
@@heaventm9661 It's not neglected, the citizens need to take care of the island by themselves too. Stop littering, get educated and so on. Since they live in freedom they unfortunately have the freedom to ruin the island too.
It’s still a colony, and the people there are still subjects of a foreign power. It needs to be liberated imho, and come home 🇰🇲 ✨.
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So can the people of Mayotte migrate to France 🇫🇷 since they are part of France ?
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Good question ⁉️
I can take it even further, can they travel to France without (traveling documents) visa or/and passport? Curious to know.
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Yes they can travel to France without any visa, it’s just like travelling from Paris to another city in France, they just have to show an ID. Plus they can also travel inside the Shengen area as they are considered as French and European citizen
@moshoeufrans2456 yes. Cos they are part of European 🇪🇺 union
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Other comoran islands and even Madagascar should have joined France. The were deceived by OAUNthen. Now they are migrating to Mayotte to disturb them.
What? Why join a colonial power half a world away? To be slaves?
How about NO. African people need independence and self-determination, imho.
This island is Comoros 🇰🇲 not French .
We never become Comoros, we fight for our island 🇾🇹to stay with French 🇨🇵
Why do you want to remain slaves ??? Why don’t you demand for your independence ... u seem to be poor with the French in control
@@brookzera218 we are not poor, but because of the daily illegal immigration which gives us an image of poverty and insecurity in our island. but otherwise we live well with France, that's why we decided to stay French. without following the others of the archipelago, who unfortunately they come massively to my island for a better life.
Exactly. Independence is priceless, imho. 🇰🇲✨
muslim population there
France is in Europe not Africa. Return what does not belong to you. It’s belong to Comoros 🇰🇲.
THIS
My subjective hunches exactly, suppose to be an African Island, why is that difficult?
You cannot decide for the people of Mayotte , they chose to be with the French . They had a vote ,whether they wanted to be with France or the Comoros and majority chose France .
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