Mayotte

[ French ma-yawt ]

noun

1. one of the Comoro Islands, in the Indian Ocean, NW of Madagascar: an overseas department of France. 144 sq. mi. (373 sq. km).

Mayotte

/ majɔt /

noun

1. an island in the Indian Ocean, northwest of Madagascar; administered by France. Pop (including Pamanzi): 186 026 (2004 est). Area: 374 sq km (146 sq miles)

Example Sentences

Sugar refineries, distilleries of rum, and sawmills are worked in Mayotte by French settlers.

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The chief sources of revenue are poll and house taxes, and, in Mayotte, a land tax.

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The budgets of the four islands in 1904 came to some 30,000, that of Mayotte being about half the total.

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The captain of the ‘Dawn’ told that when off the island of Mayotte, away to the northward here, a brig was in his company.

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Mayotte was devastated in 1898 by a cyclone of great severity.

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