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part of Indian Ocean, on the island of Madagascar

and the surrounding small islands. Madagascar is the fourth largest island in the world, its flora and fauna contains five percent of animal and vegetable species of the world, 80% of which exist only in Madagascar. The most famous of these are the lemurs. Madagascar and Mauritania are the only countries in the world that do not use a decimal currency.

island on the east coast of the Indian Ocean.

The area is 587 thousand sq. km, the population is 18.4 million. pers. The capital is Antananarivo.

situated on the sacred hills Imerina, Central Highlands. There

is a picturesque lake between the hills. All people (about 1.5 million.) live in a single-storey houses, resembling a medieval European city buildings - a legacy of French colonization. Antananarivo is red town. Walls and roofs of buildings are made of brick or red clay. Bridge cities are paved with large cobblestones, narrow streets can wind.

europeans in 1500, when the ship of the Portuguese

traveler Diogo Dias, coming to India, lost the course and stuck to the island. The French and the British tried to establish their outposts because of species of the island. However, the inhospitable climate and even less hospitable natives made this task almost impossible.

tropical monsoon climate on the east coast, temperate climate

in the central highlands and the dry climate in the desert on the southern end of the island. Typical annual rate of precipitation is 350 cm on the south coast, 140 cm in the central highlands (in this case, in the capital - Antananarivo), 32 cm in the south, on the border of the desert.

main population of Madagascar. They speak Malagasy language related

to the Indonesian group of the Austronesian language family. The total number is about 20 million people. Self-name dates back to the adjective from the word "Madagascar" thus Malagasy is "Madagascar" in Malagasy language.