Madagascar

Madagascar



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Goegraphy and climite

In Africa there is a small country named Madagascar. It lieds of the southeast coast of Africas oppisite Mozambigue. It's an island in the indian ocean with a popualtion of 19,541,930. The capita is Antananarivo located in center of Madagscar and is also the largest city in madagascar, its population is 1,687,748. The other major citiers are Toamasina and Antsirabe. The climate in Madagascar is Tropical along the coast, Temperate inland, and arid in the south.(1) The Terrian is narrow coastal plain, high plateau and mountains in the center.(2) Madagscars coast line is 4,828km and the areas total is 587,040km. The land total is 581,540.(1) Madagascar is home to 5% of the worlds plant and animal life. Many are very exotic plants and animals.(2)

Major Religions(1) The major religons in Madagscar are indigenous belief, Christanity like America and Muslim as showed in the table above.
 * Religions ||
 * Indigenous beliefs || 52 % ||
 * Christian || 41 % ||
 * Muslim || 7 % ||

Major Languages(1)

Malagasy (official) ||
 * || French (official) These are the two main languages in Madagascar.



Natural Resources(2) There are manynatural resources in madagascar Like and food and water because its an island, some of those things are listed below.

graphite, cromite, coal,

bauxite, salt, quartz, tar sands , semiprecious stones , mica , fish, hydropower Land use in Madagastcar || Government There government is Multiparty republic.(3) Which means they have many different organization on how to run their government. The president of Madagascar is Andry Rojoelina ever since elected in 2009. The Prime Minister is Camile Vital who also took office in 2011.(3) Like America, Madagascar is ruled by many groups unlike one man that can dictate every he wants done and all the rules. The currency exchange is 1 malagasy franc (FMG) = 100 centimes.(3)
 * **Ethnic Divisions** ||
 * Merina || 26 % ||
 * Betsimisiraka || 15 % ||
 * Betsileo || 12 % ||
 * Tsimhety || 7 % ||
 * Sakalava || 6 % ||
 * Antandroy || 5 % ||
 * Antaisaka || 5 % ||
 * Antaimoro, Bara, Antaimoro || 5 % ||
 * Tanala || 4 % ||
 * Antaifasy, Makoa, Bezanozano, Antakarana, || 4 % ||
 * Antaimoro || 3 % ||
 * Sihanaka || 2 % ||
 * Antanosy || 2 % ||
 * Mahafaly || 2 % ||
 * French, Comoronian, Indian || 2 % ||
 * (1)

History Like America there is a lot of rich and great history in Madagscar. Like how the Indonesians are believed to come to Madagascar around the yesr 700. The French made the island a protectorate in 1885. Then shortly after in 1894 and 1895 the monarchy ended exiling the queen later on. Madagascar is also the forth largest island in the whole world. Madagascar is one of the greatest places to live because there is freedom and no war just like America. (3) media type="youtube" key="yfrEiPtrHE0" height="349" width="425" align="center"



Works Cited (1) [|www.countrywatch.com]

(2) [|www.WildMadagascar.org]

(3) [|www.Infoplease.com]

(4) [|www.youtube.com]

Created by Zach Wollenschlager and Hugh Beattie