MADAGASCAR 🌍

POPULATION 👲👮👷

• 22.29 million
• Largest CityAntananarivo
• http://www.mapsofworld.com/madagascar/

ETHNICITIES👳👲

• 👉Ethnicity: 18 official tribes.
• Largest-Merina - is Elevated People
• BETSIMISARAKA- Inseparable Multitude
• BETSILEO-speak a dialect of Malagasy
• http://www.cactus-madagascar.com/madagascar-overview/madagascar-facts.php

WARS🔫🔪

• PREMISES OF A CIVIL WAR IN MADAGASCAR
• started with the dahalos Malagasy word for “bandits”
• the British campaign to capture Vichy French-controlled Madagascar during World War ll
• www.warhistoryonline.com/war-articles/battle-madagascar.html

NATURAL RESOURCES 🌍

• Natural resources: graphite, chromite, coal, bauxite, rare earth elements, salt, quartz, tar sands, semiprecious stones, mica, fish, hydropower.
• Definition This entry lists a country's mineral, petroleum, hydropower, and other resources of commercial importance.
• http://www.indexmundi.com/madagascar/natural_resources.html

INDUSTRIES 🍦

• Industries: meat processing, seafood, soap, breweries, tanneries, sugar, textiles, glassware, cement, automobile assembly plant, paper, petroleum, tourism
• nickel mine has gone into production. With the capacity to produce around 60,000 tonnes of refined nickel each year, it is expected to be one of the largest nickel mines in the world
• Madagascar is the leading producer of vanilla in the world. (In the photo, Malagasy workers sort and grade vanilla pods.)
• http://www.our-africa.org/madagascar/economy-industry

GOVERNMENT👬

• The government of Madagascar
• is a Republic
• http://country-facts.findthedata.org/q/74/14298/What-type-of-government-doe...

EVENTS👊

• Comoro Islands were attached in 1908, and other territories later.
• Andrianampoinimerina (1787–1810) ruled the major kingdom on the island
• http://www.factmonster.com/country/madagascar.html

LEADER👳

• Hery Rajaonarimampianina
• Madagascar, President
• Source - Google

HOW LARGE.🙆

• 226,657 sq miles (587,040 km²)
• Madagascar, Area
• Source- Google.

PHYSICAL FEATURES

• http://milesandhenry.weebly.com/physical-features.html - Mt. Maromokotro
• It is the highest point in Madagascar at a height of 9,436 feet (2876 meters).
• The Waterfalls of Mt. Andringitra
• Riandahy (The Queen) and Rianbavy (the King),
• Ankarana National Park: There are rain forests, plateaus, caves, canyons, ridges, and valleys.

MADAGASCAR FLAG 🇮🇹

• The flag of Madagascar consists of a white vertical stripes
• and red and green horizontal stripes.
• This flag was officially adopted on October 14, 1958.
• http://www.mapsofworld.com/flags/madagascar-flag.html

CURRENT NEWS

• http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/madagascar/
• Madagascar lynching victim pleaded innocence in
• haunting recording of last words

AGRICULTURE

• farming methods vary from one ethnic group or location to another
• according to population density, climate, water supply, and soi
• slash-and-burn methods
• http://www.wildmadagascar.org/overview/loc/36-agriculture.html

EDUCATON

• The duration of primary education in Madagascar is 5 years.
• The elementary education is provided to the children of the age group of 6 to 11.
• Children from 12 to 15 years attend the junior secondary stage and children from 16 to 18 years attend the senior secondary stage.
• http://www.mapsofworld.com/madagascar/education/

CLIMATE

• The climate is dominated by the southeastern trade winds
• Madagascar has two seasons: a hot, rainy
• season from November to April; and a cooler, dry season from May to October.
• http://www.wildmadagascar.org/overview/loc/19-climate.html