Category:Africa/Madagascar/

Coordinates: 18°55′01″S 47°31′01″E -18.917, 47.517

Madagascar

Madagascar, or Republic of Madagascar (older name Malagasy Republic, French Rpublique malgache), is an island nation in the Indian Ocean off the southeastern coast of Africa. The main island, also called 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. They include the lemur infraorder of primates, the carnivorous fossa, three bird families and six baobab species.^[1]

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