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Madagascar, [a] officially the Republic of Madagascar, [b] is an island country that includes the island of Madagascar and numerous smaller peripheral islands. Lying off the southeastern coast of Africa, it is the world's fourth largest island (after Greenland, New Guinea, and Borneo), the second-largest island country (after Indonesia), and the 46th largest country overall. [14]
Madagascar is a large island in the Indian Ocean located 400 kilometres (250 mi) off the eastern coast of Southern Africa, [1] east of Mozambique. It has a total area of 587,040 square kilometres (226,660 sq mi) with 581,540 square kilometres (224,530 sq mi) of land and 6,900 square kilometres (2,700 sq mi) of water.
The Island of Madagascar is the fourth-largest island in the world, and is home to 5% of the world's plant and animal species, of which more than 80% are endemic to Madagascar. [2] They include the lemur superfamily of primates , the carnivorous fossa , three bird families and six baobab species.
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An outline map of w:Madagascar created with w:Generic Mapping Tools. The command used was: pscoast -Jm.3i -R42/52/-28/-11 -Ggray -Dh: Date: 23 February 2008: Source:
Date/Time Thumbnail Dimensions User Comment; current: 23:09, 12 May 2023: 426 × 774 (2.2 MB): GrandEscogriffe: adding two region borders: Atsinanana/Analanjirofo and Vatovavy-Fitovinany
Time in Madagascar; Tsingy de Bemaraha National Park; Tsingy de Bemaraha Strict Nature Reserve This page was last edited on 24 July 2024, at 16:17 (UTC). Text ...