Moroni, capitale des Comores

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Moroni, capitale des Comores
Madagascar : revue de géographie, vol. 12, janvier-juin 1968 pp:59 - 80
Auteur(s) : Maximy R. de

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Mots-clés : VILLES/COMORES/CAPITALE/MORONI/GEOGRAPHIE

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[EN] Situated on the west coast of the Great Comore Island, the town of Moroni, the present capital of the Comorian archipelago, owes this distinction to historical rather than to geographical causes. The agglomeration is composed of an Arab town resembling a casbah in appearance and a newly-built town of diverse aspects that has completely encircled the medina Arab quarter. Among the well-planned, substantially-built areas, disorderly villages of straw huts spring up haphazard. This creates problems of sanitation and town-planning that have not yet been resolved. In 1958 there were 6 545 inhabitants in Moroni. In 1966, as a result of the transfer of the capital, begun in 1963, from Dzaoudzi (Island of Mayotte) to Moroni, the population had risen to 11.500. In addition to its function as a port, the town has economic function as a market for food-stuffs and a centre for the redistribution of goods. If it is assumed that in 1972 there will be 20.000 inhabitants in Moroni, it seems necessary to provide this little capital with urban structures adapted to its rapid increase in population.