REUNION

officially Department of Runion, French Dpartement de la Runion island of the Mascarene Islands and a French overseas dpartement in the western Indian Ocean. It is located about 420 miles (680 km) east of Madagascar and 110 miles (180 km) southwest of Mauritius. Runion is almost elliptical in shape, about 40 miles (65 km) long and 30 miles (50 km) wide, and has an area of 970 square miles (2,512 square km). The capital is Saint-Denis on the northern coast.