Madagascar
Madagascar is located in South Africa. On the southeast coast by the Mozambique Channel. It is Africa's largest island.
- Madagascar's major exports include coffee, vanilla, sugar, shrimp, graphite, clothing, and chromite
- Madagascar's GDP per capita is $1,000 and the GDP real growth rate is 1.9%
- Madagascar's population is 22,599,098 people
- The life expectancy of the country is 64.85 years old
- 64.5% of the population over the age of 14 is literate
- There are 24,000 people in this country living with HIV/AIDS
- Madagascar is a republic; it won its independence June 26,1960 from France
- Their prime minister is Jean Omer Beriziky who has been this since November 2,2011
- Madagascar's main occupations are agriculture which includes fishing and foresty
- The official languages of the country are French and Malagasy
- Madagascar’s natural resources include sapphires, limonite, chromite, salt, coal, iron, cobalt, copper and nickel
- Madagascar has some of their own animals including lemurs, fossa and aye-ayes
- The highest point in Madagascar is Maromokotro which is 2,876 m