Everything you need to know about Madagascar
Explore Madagascar from Antananarivo’s highland hills to the rainforests, western baobabs and Indian Ocean islands. Learn 24 regions, place their 24 capitals, follow nine waters, discover sixteen sights and read ten illustrated topics with eighty reviewed quiz questions. Begin everyday Malagasy with the existing lessons.
Read it, then make it stick
Geography of Madagascar
An island of highlands, wet eastern slopes and a drier western coast.
Know the shape of the country
Start with all 24 regions, including Ambatosoa and separate Vatovavy and Fitovinany. Place their capitals, then follow five river systems, Lake Alaotra, Antongil Bay, the Mozambique Channel and the Indian Ocean. Rivers retain their complete available mapped courses; marine waters extend far beyond Madagascar. Zoom out to explore their full extent.
Places worth visiting
Essential · Nature
Avenue of the Baobabs
Tall Grandidier’s baobabs rise beside the road northeast of Morondava. This western landscape introduces one of Madagascar’s six endemic baobab species and the pressures affecting its remaining habitat.
Place sixteen sights across Madagascar, from royal highland hills and baobab avenues to rainforest parks, limestone pinnacles and offshore islands. Pins identify learning locations rather than confirmed entrances or routes. Essential is our shortlist for a first trip, and worth a detour goes further. Select a pin to read about a place, then play the map and find them all.
Take Malagasy with you
Greetings and politeness
Hello, please, thank you, sorry: the ten openers everything else builds on.
Keep going one country deeper
When you have had your fill of Madagascar, the countries marked guide have a page like this one, and every other has maps of its own.
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