Madagascar
Madagascar is a country in the Indian Ocean off the eastern coast of Africa. It is the fourth largest island in the world, and its wildlife is so unique and diverse that it's nicknamed "the Eighth Continent".Tap on the map to travel |
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Popular Destinations
Antananarivo
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Antananarivo, also known as Tana, is the capital and largest city of Madagascar.
Toamasina
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Toamasina is a port city on the east coast of Madagascar.
Antsiranana
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Antsiranana, named Diego-Suarez prior to 1975, is a city in the far north of Madagascar.
Destinations
Antananarivo Province
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Antananarivo Province is a former province of Madagascar with an area of 58,283 square kilometres.
Antsiranana Province
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Antsiranana Province is a former province in the north of the island state of Madagascar.
Toliara Province
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Toliara Province is a region in the southwest of Madagascar.
Fianarantsoa Province
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Fianarantsoa Province is a former province of Madagascar.
Toamasina Province
The Toamasina Province is a former province of Madagascar with an area of 71,911 km².Madagascar
- Type: Country with 22,000,000 residents
- Description: island sovereign state off the coast of Southeast Africa, in the Indian Ocean
- Languages: French and Malagasy
- Neighbors: Comoros, France, Mozambique and Seychelles
- Categories: sovereign state, island country and locality
- Location: East African Islands, Africa
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Latitude of centre
-19.311° or 19° 18' 40" southLongitude of centre
46.67° or 46° 40' 12" eastPopulation
22,000,000Area
587,040 km² (226,657 miles²)Elevation
1,678 metres (5,505 feet)Capital
AntananarivoCurrency
Ariary (MGA)Phone code
.mgInternet domain
261OpenStreetMap ID
node 432425028OpenStreetMap Feature
place=countryGeoNames ID
1062947Wikidata ID
Q1019Madagascar Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Abkhazian: Madagaskar
- Abkhazian: Ареспублика Мадагаскар
- Abkhazian: Мадагаскар
- Achinese: Madagaskar
- Adyghe: Madagascar
- Afar: Madagascar
- Afar: Madagaskar
- Afrikaans: Madagaskar
- Akan: Madagascar
- Akan: Madagaska
- Albanian: Madagaskar
- Albanian: Madagaskari
- Albanian: Madegaskari
- Algerian Arabic: Madagascar
- Amharic: Madagascar
- Amharic: ማዳጋስካር
- Amis: Madagascar
- Ancient Greek (to 1453): Madagascar
- Angika: माडागास्कार
- Arabic: Madagascar
- Arabic: مدغشقر
- Arabic: ملجاش
- Aragonese: Madagascar
- Armenian: Մադագասկար
- Armenian: Մատակասքար
- Arpitan: Madagascâr
- Assamese: মাদাগাস্কাৰ
- Asturian: Madagascar
- Atayal: Madagascar
- Atikamekw: Madagascar
- Avaric: Madagascar
- Avaric: Madagasikara
- Awadhi: Madagascar
- Aymara: Madagascar
- Azerbaijani: Madaqaskar
- Bakhtiari: Madagascar
- Balinese: Madagaskar
- Bambara: Madagasikari
- Bambara: Madagaskar
- Banjar: Madagaskar
- Bashkir: Мадагаскар
- Basque: Madagaskar
- Batak Toba: Madagascar
- Bavarian: Madagaskar
- Belarusian: Мадагаскар
- Belarusian: Мадаґаскар
- Bengali: মাদাগাস্কার
- Bhojpuri: मेडागास्कर
- Bishnupriya: মাদাগাস্কার
- Bislama: Madagaskar
- Bosnian: Madagaskar
- Brahui: Madagascar
- Breton: Madagaskar
- Buginese: Madagascar
- Bulgarian: Мадагаскар
- Burmese: မဒဂတ်စကာ
- Burmese: မဒါဂတ်စကား
- Burmese: မဒါဂတ်စကားနိုင်ငံ
- Cajun French: Madagascar
- Capiznon: Madagascar
- Catalan: Madagascar
- Catalan: República de Madagascar
- Cebuano: Madagascar
- Central Bikol: Madagaskar
- Central Kurdish: ماداگاسکار
- Chamorro: Madagascar
- Chavacano: Madagascar
- Chechen: Мадагаскар
- Cherokee: Madagascar
- Cheyenne: Madagascar
- Chimborazo Highland Quichua: Madagascar
- Chinese: Madagascar
- Chinese: Mǎdájiāsījiā
- Chinese: 馬達加斯加
- Chinese: 马达加斯加 / 馬達加斯加
- Chinese: 马达加斯加
- Choctaw: Madagascar
- Church Slavic: Madagascar
- Chuvash: Мадагаскар Республики
- Cornish: Madagaskar
- Corsican: Madagascara
- Cree: Madagascar
- Creek: Madagascar
- Crimean Tatar: Madagascar
- Crimean Tatar: Madagaskar
- Croatian: Madagaskar
- Czech: Madagaskar
- Dagbani: Madagascar
- Danish: Madagascar
- Danish: Madagaskar
- Dhivehi: މަޑަގަސްކަރަ
- Dimli (individual language): Madagaskar
- Dinka: Madagathkar
- Dotyali: मडागास्कर
- Dutch: MDG
- Dutch: MG
- Dutch: Madagaskar
- Dzongkha: Madagascar
- Dzongkha: མ་དཱ་གེས་ཀར
- Eastern Canadian Inuktitut: Madagascar
- Eastern Mari: Мадагаскар
- Egyptian Arabic: مادجاسكار
- Emilian: Madagascar
- English: MAD
- English: Republic of Madagascar
- English: mg
- Erzya: Madagascar
- Esperanto: Madagaskaro
- Esperanto: Respubliko Madagaskaro
- Estonian: Madagaskar
- Estonian: Madagaskari Vabariik
- Ewe: Madagascar
- Ewe: Madagaska nutome
- Ewe: Malagasi
- Extremaduran: Madagascal
- Faroese: Madagaskar
- Fiji Hindi: Madagascar
- Fijian: Madagasikar
- Fijian: Madaqasika
- Finnish: Madagaskar
- Finnish: Madagaskarin tasavalta
- French: MG
- French: Madagascar
- French: République de Madagascar
- French: la République de Madagascar
- Friulian: Madagascar
- Fulah: Madagaskaar
- Fulah: Madagaskar
- Gagauz: Madagaskar
- Galician: Madagascar
- Gan Chinese: Madagascar
- Ganda: Madagascar
- Ganda: Madagasika
- Georgian: მადაგასკარი
- German: Madagaskar
- German: Republik Madagaskar
- Ghanaian Pidgin English: Madagascar
- Gheg Albanian: Madagascar
- Gilaki: Madagascar
- Goan Konkani: Madagascar
- Gorontalo: Madagascar
- Gothic: Madagascar
- Greek: Δημοκρατία της Μαδαγασκάρης
- Greek: Μαδαγασκάρη
- Guarani: Madagaka
- Guarani: Mandagaka
- Guianese Creole French: Madagaskar
- Gujarati: મડાગાસ્કર
- Gujarati: મેડાગાસ્કર
- Haitian: Madagaskar
- Hakka Chinese: Madagascar
- Hausa: Madagascar
- Hausa: Madagaskar
- Hawaiian: Madagascar
- Hebrew: מדגסקר
- Herero: Madagascar
- Hiligaynon: Madagascar
- Hindi: मदागास्कर
- Hindi: मेडागास्कर
- Hindi: मैडागास्कर
- Hiri Motu: Madagascar
- Hungarian: Madagaszkár
- Hungarian: Madagaszkári Köztársaság
- Hungarian: Malgas Köztársaság
- Hunsrik: Madagascar
- Icelandic: Madagaskar
- Ido: Madagaskar
- Igbo: Madagascar
- Igbo: Madagaskar
- Iloko: Madagascar
- Inari Sami: Madagaskar
- Inari Sami: Madagaskar täsiväldi
- Indonesian: Madagaskar
- Ingush: Madagascar
- Interlingua: Madagascar
- Interlingue: Madagascar
- Inuktitut: Madagascar
- Inupiaq: Madagascar
- Irish: Madagascar
- Italian: Madagascar
- Jamaican Creole English: Madagiaska
- Japanese: マダガスカル
- Japanese: マダガスカル共和国
- Javanese: Madagaskar
- Javanese: Madhagaskar
- Jutish: Madagascar
- Kabardian: Madagascar
- Kabiyè: Madakasɩkarɩ
- Kabuverdianu: Madagascar
- Kabyle: Madagaskar
- Kadazan Dusun: Madagascar
- Kalaallisut: Madagascar
- Kalaallisut: Madagaskar
- Kalmyk: Мадагаскармудин Орн
- Kannada: ಮಡಗಾಸ್ಕರ್
- Kanuri: Madagascar
- Kara-Kalpak: Madagaskar
- Karachay-Balkar: Madagascar
- Karelian: Madagascar
- Kashmiri: Madagascar
- Kashmiri: میڑاگاسکار
- Kashmiri: मडगास्कर
- Kashubian: Madagaskar
- Kazakh: Madagascar
- Kazakh: Мадагаскар
- Khmer: ម៉ាដាហ្គាស្កា
- Khmer: ម៉ាដាហ្គាស្ការ
- Khowar: Madagascar
- Kikuyu: Bukini
- Kikuyu: Madagascar
- Kinaray-A: Madagascar
- Kinyarwanda: Madagasikari
- Kirghiz: Мадагаскар
- Kirghiz: Мадагаскар Республикасы
- Kirmanjki (individual language): Madagascar
- Komi-Permyak: Madagascar
- Komi: Madagascar
- Kongo: Malagasi
- Korean: 마다가스까르
- Korean: 마다가스카르
- Korean: 마다카스카르
- Kotava: Madagasikara
- Koyraboro Senni Songhai: Madagascar
- Krio: Madagascar
- Kuanyama: Madagascar
- Kurdish: Madagascar
- Kurdish: Madagaskar
- Kurdish: ماداگاسکار
- Kölsch: Madagascar
- Kölsch: Maddajaßka
- Ladin: Madagascar
- Ladino: Madagaskar
- Lak: Madagascar
- Laki: Madagascar
- Lao: Madagascar
- Lao: ມາດາກາສະກາ
- Latgalian: Madagaskars
- Latin: Madagascaria
- Latvian: Madagaskara
- Laz: Madagascar
- Lezghian: Madagascar
- Ligurian: Madagascar
- Limburgan: Madagaskar
- Lingala: Madagasikari
- Lingua Franca Nova: Madagasicara
- Literary Chinese: 馬達加斯加
- Lithuanian: Madagaskaras
- Liv: Madagascar
- Livvi: Madagaskar
- Lojban: Madagascar
- Lombard: Madagascar
- Low German: Madagaskar
- Lower Silesian: Madagascar
- Lower Sorbian: Madagaskar
- Lozi: Madagascar
- Luba-Katanga: Madagasikari
- Lule Sami: Madagáskar
- Lushai: Madagascar
- Luxembourgish: Madagaskar
- Macedo-Romanian: Madagascar
- Macedonian: Мадагаскар
- Mainfränkisch: Madagascar
- Maithili: Madagascar
- Malagasy: Madagasikara
- Malagasy: Repoblikan'i Madagasikara
- Malagasy: Repoblikan’i Madagasikara
- Malay: Madagascar
- Malay: Madagaskar
- Malayalam: മഡഗാസ്കര്
- Malayalam: മഡഗാസ്കർ
- Maltese: Madagascar
- Maltese: Madagaskar
- Maltese: Repubblika ta’ Madagascar
- Manipuri: ꯃꯦꯗꯒꯥꯁ꯭ꯀꯔ
- Manx: Madagascar
- Maori: Marakāhia
- Mapudungun: Madagascar
- Marathi: मादागास्कर
- Marshallese: Madagascar
- Marwari (India): Madagascar
- Mazanderani: ماداگاسکار
- Megleno Romanian: Madagascar
- Min Dong Chinese: Madagascar
- Min Nan Chinese: Madagascar
- Min Nan Chinese: Madagaskar
- Minangkabau: Madagaskar
- Mingrelian: მადაგასკარი
- Mirandese: Madagascar
- Moksha: Мадагаскар
- Mongolian: Мадагаскар
- Mongolian: ꯃꯦꯗꯒꯥꯁ꯭ꯀꯔ
- Moroccan Arabic: ماداڭاسكار
- Moroccan Arabic: ماداݣاسكار
- Narom: Madagascar
- Nauru: Madagascar
- Navajo: Magí Bitseeʼ Noodǫ́zí Bikéyah
- Navajo: Mágí Bitseeʼ Noodǫ́zí Bikéyah
- Ndonga: Madagascar
- Neapolitan: Madagascar
- Nepali: माडागास्कर
- Nepali: मादागास्कर
- Newari: माडागास्कर
- Niuean: Madagascar
- North Ndebele: Madagaska
- Northern Frisian: Madagaskar
- Northern Luri: ماداگاسکار
- Northern Sami: Madagaskar
- Northern Sami: Madagaskara dásseváldi
- Northern Sami: Madagaskar dásseváldi
- Northern Thai: Madagascar
- Norwegian: Madagaskar
- Norwegian Bokmål: Madagaskar
- Norwegian Bokmål: Republikken Madagaskar
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Madagaskar
- Novial: Madagaskar
- Nyanja: Madagascar
- Nyungar: Madagascar
- Occitan (post 1500): Madagascar
- Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): Madagascar
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): Madagascar
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): Madaȝascar
- Oriya: ମାଡାଗାସ୍କର୍
- Oriya: ମେଡାଗାସ୍କର
- Oromo: Madagascar
- Oromo: Madagaskaar
- Ossetian: Мадагаскар
- Ottoman Turkish (1500-1928): Madagascar
- Pali: मडगास्कर
- Pampanga: Madagascar
- Pampanga: Madagaskar
- Pangasinan: Madagascar
- Panjabi: ਮਾਦਾਗਾਸਕਰ
- Panjabi: ਮੈਡਾਗਾਸਕਰ
- Papiamento: Madagascar
- Pedi: Madagascar
- Pennsylvania German: Madagascar
- Persian: ماداگاسکار
- Persian: مادغاسکر
- Pfaelzisch: Madagascar
- Picard: Madagascar
- Piemontese: Madagascar
- Pitcairn-Norfolk: MG
- Pitcairn-Norfolk: Madagascar
- Plautdietsch: Madagascar
- Polish: Madagaskar
- Pontic: Μαδαγασκάρην
- Portuguese: MAD
- Portuguese: Madagascar
- Portuguese: Madagáscar
- Portuguese: Repoblikan'i Madagasikara
- Portuguese: República Malgaxe
- Portuguese: República de Madagáscar
- Portuguese: République de Madagascar
- Portuguese: mg
- Prussian: Madagascar
- Pushto: مادغاسکر
- Pushto: مدغاسکر
- Quechua: Madagascar
- Quechua: Madagaskar
- Quechua: Mathaqaskar
- Rinconada Bikol: Madagascar
- Romagnol: Madagascar
- Romanian: Madagascar
- Romansh: Madagascar
- Rundi: Madagascar
- Rundi: Madagasikari
- Russia Buriat: Мадагаскар
- Russian: Мадагаскар
- Russian: Республика Мадагаскар
- Rusyn: Madagascar
- Sakizaya: Madagascar
- Samoan: Madagascar
- Samogitian: Madagaskars
- Sango: Madagaskära
- Sanskrit: मडगास्कर
- Santali: ᱢᱟᱫᱟᱜᱟᱥᱠᱟᱨ
- Sardinian: Madagascàr
- Sassarese Sardinian: Madagascar
- Saterfriesisch: Madagaskar
- Scots: Madagascar
- Scottish Gaelic: Madagascar
- Scottish Gaelic: Madagasgar
- Serbian: Madagaskar
- Serbian: Мадагаскар
- Serbo-Croatian: Madagaskar
- Serbo-Croatian: Madaɣacqar
- Seri: Madagascar
- Shan: မိူင်းမၢတ်ႈတႃႇၵၢတ်ႈသၵႃႇ
- Shona: Madagascar
- Shona: Matagadzikwa
- Sichuan Yi: Madagascar
- Sicilian: Madagascar
- Silesian: Madagaskar
- Sindhi: مدگاسڪر
- Sindhi: مڊگاسڪر
- Sinhala: මැඩගස්කරය
- Sirionó: Madagascar
- Skolt Sami: Madagaskaar tääʹssväʹldd
- Skolt Sami: Madagaskar
- Slovak: Madagaskar
- Slovak: Madagaskarská republika
- Slovenian: Madagaskar
- Somali: Madagaskar
- South Azerbaijani: ماداقاسکار
- Southern Balochi: Madagascar
- Southern Kurdish: Madagascar
- Southern Luri: Madagascar
- Southern Sotho: Madagascar
- Spanish: Madagascar
- Spanish: Republica de Madagascar
- Spanish: República de Madagascar
- Sranan Tongo: Madagascar
- Sundanese: Madagaskar
- Swahili: Bukini
- Swahili: Madagaska
- Swati: IMadagasikha
- Swedish: Madagaskar
- Swedish: Republiken Madagaskar
- Swiss German: Madagaskar
- Tachelhit: Madagascar
- Tachelhit: Madaɣacqar
- Tagalog: Madagascar
- Tagalog: Madagaskar
- Tahitian: Madagascar
- Tahitian: Matatatihata
- Tajik: Madagascar
- Tajik: Мадагаскар
- Talysh: Madagascar
- Talysh: Madagaskar
- Tamil: மடகாசுகர்
- Tamil: மடகாஸ்கர்
- Tarifit: Madagascar
- Taroko: Madagascar
- Tatar: Madagascar
- Tatar: Мадагаскар
- Telugu: మడగాస్కర్
- Tetum: Madagascar
- Thai: ประเทศมาดากัสการ์
- Thai: มาดากัสการ์
- Tibetan: མ་ད་གཱ་སི་ཀར།
- Tibetan: མ་དཱ་གྷསྐཱར།
- Tigrinya: ማዳጋስካር
- Tok Pisin: Madagascar
- Tonga (Tonga Islands): Madagascar
- Tonga (Tonga Islands): Matakasika
- Tosk Albanian: Madagaskar
- Tsonga: Madagascar
- Tswana: Madagascar
- Tulu: Madagascar
- Tumbuka: Madagascar
- Tunisian Arabic: Madagascar
- Tunisian Arabic: مدغشقر
- Turkish: Madagaskar
- Turkmen: Madagaskar
- Turoyo: Madagascar
- Tuvinian: Madagascar
- Twi: Madagascar
- Tyap: Mada̱ga̱si̱ka
- Tyap: Ri̱pobi̱lik Mada̱ga̱si̱ka
- Udmurt: Мадагаскар
- Uighur: Madagascar
- Uighur: ماداغاسقار
- Uighur: ماداگاسكار
- Ukrainian: Мадагаскар
- Ukrainian: Мадаґаскар
- Ukrainian: Республіка Мадагаскар
- Upper Sorbian: Madagaskar
- Urdu: مڈغاسکر
- Uzbek: Madagaskar
- Venda: Madagascar
- Venetian: Madagascar
- Veps: Madagaskar
- Vietnamese: Ma-đa-gát-xca (Madagascar)
- Vietnamese: Ma-đa-gát-xca
- Vietnamese: Madagascar
- Vlaams: Madagaskar
- Vlax Romani: Madagascar
- Volapük: Malagaseän
- Votic: Madagascar
- Võro: Madagaskar
- Walloon: Madagascar
- Waray (Philippines): Madagascar
- Welsh: Madagascar
- Welsh: Madagasgar
- Western Armenian: Մատակասքար
- Western Balochi: Madagascar
- Western Frisian: Madagaskar
- Western Frisian: Madeiaskar
- Western Mari: Мадагаскар
- Western Panjabi: مڈغاسکر
- Wolof: Madagaskaar
- Wu Chinese: 馬達加斯加
- Xhosa: Madagascar
- Yakut: Мадагаскар
- Yiddish: מאַדאַגאַסקאַר
- Yiddish: מאדאגאסקאר
- Yoruba: Madagáskàr
- Yoruba: Madagásíkà
- Yoruba: Madasika
- Yue Chinese: 馬達加斯加
- Zeeuws: Madahaskar
- Zhuang: Madagascar
- Zulu: IMadagasika
- Zulu: i-Madagascar
- Democratic Republic of Madagascar
- Grande-Terre
- Grande-Île
- La Grand Île de Madagascar
- Madagascar and Dependencies
- Malagash Republic
- Malagasy Republic
- Malgache
- Malgache Republic
- Repoblika Demokratika Malagasy
- Repoblika Malagasy
- République Démocratique de Madagascar
- République Malgache
- Territoire de Madagascar
- Territoire de Madagascar et Dépendances
- ma Malakasi
- Île Rouge
- ម៉ាដាហ្កាស្កា
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