Mayotte
Proper noun
Meaning
Mayotte
An overseas department of France, formerly an overseas territorial collectivity, located between Africa's mainland and Madagascar.
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Examples
2007 census French is the only official language of Mayotte.
After its annexation, France converted Mayotte into a sugar plantation colony.
As a practical matter, however, these resolutions have little effect and there is no foreseeable likelihood that Mayotte will become de facto part of the Comoros without its people's consent.
From the very beginning Mayotte refused to join the new republic and aligned itself even more firmly to the French Republic, but the other islands remained committed to independence.
Chinese people are also present on Mayotte and parts of Grande Comore (especially Moroni).
Bacar fled in a speedboat to the French Indian Ocean territory of Mayotte to seek asylum.