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Comoros

The Comoros is one of the 193 UN member states, in Eastern Africa. UN Tourism counted 45,000 international arrivals there in 2019, rarer than 97% of the 199 places with figures, so its stamp in Globestamp is printed in Mythic.

Comoros’s stamp in Globestamp
Mythic · fewer than 50,000 visitors a year
International arrivals
45,000in 2019, UN Tourism
Rank by visitors
192nd of 199most visited first
Stamp finish
Mythicrarer than 97%
Area
1,679 km² (648 sq mi)
Population
851,000Natural Earth estimate
Regions
3in Globestamp’s regions layer
Airports
2with scheduled flights
World Heritage Sites
1on Globestamp’s list

Does the Comoros count as a country?

Yes. The Comoros is one of the 193 UN member states, so every common list counts it: the UN’s 193, Globestamp’s 250 and the Travelers’ Century Club’s 330.

ListCounts the Comoros?
UN member states (193)Yes, a member
Globestamp’s countries and territories (250)Yes
Travelers’ Century Club (330)Yes, as Comoros (Anjouan, Grand Comoro, Moheli)
European UnionNo
Schengen areaNo

The Comoros stamp

Every country in Globestamp has its own stamp, drawn after a real entry stamp. Its finish shows how few travelers get there. The Comoros’s is Mythic: a living finish taken from the place itself, the finish for places with fewer than 50,000 visitors a year. With 45,000 international arrivals in 2019, the Comoros is rarer than 97% of the 199 places with figures. See every stamp on the stamp wall, or the rarest on the least-visited countries.

What counts as a visit to the Comoros

The common rule among travelers is that you set foot there: an airport layover usually doesn’t count, and a port where you went ashore does. Globestamp counts the Comoros when one of your photos was taken on its ground, or just off its coast; a photo taken from a plane never counts. Photos only at an airport make a transit stamp in lighter ink, counted only if you count layovers. Read more in how to count the countries you’ve visited.

Places in the Comoros you can collect

Under the country itself, Globestamp keeps layers of places on your globe, and a photo taken at one ticks it. These are the ones it knows in the Comoros, from 1 World Heritage Site to 1 volcano.

World Heritage Sites 1

The Medinas of the Historic Sultanates of the Comoros (2026). On the bucket list →

Volcanoes 1

Mount Karthala. On the bucket list →

Largest cities

CityPeople (urban area)
Moroni128,698

Airports

The Comoros has 2 airports with scheduled flights. Each is a dot on Globestamp’s airports layer, and every flight you log adds to how far you’ve flown (try the flight distance calculator).

3 regions to fill in

Globestamp goes deeper than countries: its regions layer splits the Comoros into 3 regions (Natural Earth’s first-level divisions), and each one fills in when a photo was taken there.

All 3

Andjazîdja · Anjouan · Mohéli

Questions people ask

Is the Comoros a country?

Yes. The Comoros is one of the 193 UN member states, so every common list counts it: the UN’s 193, Globestamp’s 250 and the Travelers’ Century Club’s 330.

How many tourists visit the Comoros a year?

UN Tourism (via the World Bank) counted 45,100 international arrivals in the Comoros in 2019, the 192nd most of the 199 places with figures. Countries count arrivals in different ways (some include day-trippers and cruise passengers), so treat it as a rough rank rather than an exact number of tourists.

How rare is a Comoros stamp in Globestamp?

It is printed in Mythic, the finish for places with fewer than 50,000 visitors a year, rarer than 97% of the places with figures. The fewer travelers a place receives, the rarer its finish, from plain Ink to Mythic.

Does the Comoros count for the Travelers’ Century Club?

Yes. The Travelers’ Century Club counts it as “Comoros (Anjouan, Grand Comoro, Moheli)”, one of its 330 destinations.

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