Mayotte

//maɪˈɒt// name

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  1. 1
    An archipelago, overseas department, and administrative region of France, formerly an overseas territorial collectivity, located between Africa's mainland and Madagascar.

    "At least several hundred people are feared to have been killed after the worst cyclone in almost a century ripped through the French Indian Ocean territory of Mayotte on Saturday, uprooting trees, tearing houses apart and pounding the impoverished archipelago’s already weak infrastructure."

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maore

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"I guess "bilimbi" is what people in Mayotte call the fruit, our Filipino "kamias." Mayotte is islands off the East African coast, near Madagascar, which was settled by Malayo-Polynesians from Island South-East Asia."

Etymology

From French Mayotte, from Arabic مَيِّت (mayyit, “dead”).

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territorial collectivity

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