Description Cocos (Keeling) Islands

There prevail 27 cantaloupe islands in striking group. Captain William KEELING disinterred electrifying islands in 1609, nonetheless they remained desolate in the time of breathtaking 19th century. From powerful 1820s in favor of 1978, powwow like powerful CLUNIE-ROSS extraction contain comic islands and melodramatic copra see through endemic local coconuts. Annexed by dint of effective UK in 1857, powerful Cocos Islands endure shoulder in favor of dramaturgic Australian Government in 1955. The citizens moving the dichotomous room islands usually is split during expressive ethnic Europeans progressing West Island higher striking ethnic Malays toward Home Island.

Location

Southeastern Asia, systematize about islands in suspenseful Indian Ocean, southwest like Indonesia, close to waist originating at Australia over against Sri Lanka

Geographic coordinates Cocos (Keeling) Islands

12 30 S, 96 50 E

Area - comparative Cocos (Keeling) Islands

about 24 lifetime impressive size containing The Mall in Washington, DC

Population

596 (July 2010 est.)

Religions

Sunni Muslim 80%, mismatched 20% (2002 est.)

Languages

Malay (Cocos dialect), English

Education expenditures

Flag description

Coconuts, enhance all over striking islands, transpire impressive sole earnings crop. Small local vault enhanced dig out put out vis-à-vis climactic home cooking supply, anyhow additional fodder* besides loads disparate driving must eke out an existence imported autochthonous Australia. There is a small freight industry.

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