Guide to Madagascar
Must See Madagascar
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At a glance
Madagascar's forests are a shimmering, seething mass of a trillion stems and dripping leaves and slithering, jumping, quirky creatures out of nature's bag of tricks: lemurs, periwinkles and baobabs, aloes, geckoes, sifakas and octopus trees. Sadly, they are threatened by aggressive deforestation.
Fast Facts
- Full name:
- Republic of Madagascar (Repoblikan'i Madagasiraka)
- Capital city:
- Antananarivo (Tana) (pop 4,000,000)
- Area:
- 594,180 sq km / 229,413 sq miles
- Population:
- 16,979,744
- Time Zone:
- GMT/UTC +3 (Greenwich Mean Time)
- Language:
- Malagasy (official)
French (official)
- Religion:
- Christianity and Islam
- Currency:
- Ariary
- Electricity:
- 127/220V 50Hz
- Electric plug details:
- European plug with two circular metal pins
- South African/Indian-style plug with two circular metal pins above a large circular grounding pin
- South African/Indian-style plug with two circular metal pins above a large circular grounding pin