Around 90 per cent of its wildlife exists nowhere else, the legacy of 88 million years of isolation.
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Madagascar
Republic of Madagascar
Africa
ยท Eastern Africa
0Population
587.04Kkmยฒ of land
$523GDP / person
AntananarivoCapital
- ISO codes
- MG ยท MDG
- Density
- 46 /kmยฒ
- Languages
- French, Malagasy
- Currency
- Malagasy ariary (MGA)
- Dial code
- +261
- Internet domain
- .mg
- Time zones
- 1
- Coastline
- Has a coast
- Map centre
- 18.6280ยฐ S, 46.7040ยฐ E
- Demonym
- Malagasy
- UN region
- Eastern Africa
- Economy
- Least developed region
- Income group
- Low income
- Total GDP
- $14.11B
- Sovereignty
- Independent ยท UN member
- Borders
- None
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By the numbers
How Madagascar stacks up against all 242 mapped countries.
Population
51st
of 242 ยท 0.35% of world population
Land area
47th
of 242 ยท 0.39% of world land
GDP per person
230th
richest of 242 by output per person
Population density
159th
most crowded of 242
Ten facts about Madagascar
The first is hand-written; the rest are worked out from this country's own figures.
Population is about 26,969,307 people, the 51st largest of the 242 countries mapped here - roughly 0.35 per cent of everyone alive.
Covers 587,041 kmยฒ, making it the 47th largest country here - about 6.4 times the size of Portugal.
Population density is about 46 people per kmยฒ.
The capital is Antananarivo, at 18.91ยฐ S, 47.51ยฐ E, with a metropolitan population of about 1,697,000.
Has no land neighbours - it is an island nation, surrounded entirely by water.
Has its own coastline and direct access to the open sea.
Keeps a single time zone, Indian/Antananarivo.
The currency is the Malagasy ariary (MGA, symbol Ar).
Has 2 official languages: French and Malagasy.
Local time
Live, from PHP's IANA database.
Indian/Antananarivo
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UTC+03:00
Cities
The largest places we hold coordinates for. Click a row to fly the map there.
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Antananarivo
Antananarivo
18.9147ยฐ S, 47.5147ยฐ E
1.7M
2
Fianarantsoa
Fianarantsoa
21.4333ยฐ S, 47.0833ยฐ E
184.18K
3
Mahajanga
Mahajanga
15.6700ยฐ S, 46.3450ยฐ E
154.66K
4
Toliara
Toliary
23.3568ยฐ S, 43.6900ยฐ E
115.32K
5
Antsiranana
Antsiranana
12.2765ยฐ S, 49.3115ยฐ E
82.94K