Facts of Madagascar:
-Madagascar is in the Indian ocean, and off the southeast coast of Mozombique.
-Fourth largest island, twice the size of Arizona.
-used to be densely wooded, but the trees were recently cut down.
-its government is a multiparty republic.
-The Malagasy are of mixed Malayo-Indonesian and African-Arab ancestry.
-In World War II, the British had Madagascar.
-Madagascar once had two presidents and two capitals.
-the national name is Repoblikan'i Madagascar
-the capital and largest city is Antananarivo
-The religions are :
Indigenous beliefs (52%)
Christian (41%)
Islam (7%)
-the agricultural products include:
coffee, vanilla, sugarcane, cloves, cocoa, rice, cassava(tapioca), beans, bananas, and livestock product
some industries in Madagascar are:
meat processing, soap, breweries, tanneries, sugar, textiles, glassware, cement, automobile assembly plant, paper, petroleum, tourism
-Some natural resources in Madagascar are:
graphite, chromite, coal, bauxite, salt, quartz, tar sands, semiprecious stones, mica, fish, hydropower.
-Population is 16,979,744 people.
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