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Madagascar (Madagascar (Malagasy: Repoblikan'i Madagasikara

Madagascar is an island country located approximately 400 kilometres off the east coast of Africa in the Indian Ocean. As the fourth largest island in the world, Madagascar comprises the main island of Madagascar along with several smaller surrounding islands, with a total land area of around 592,800 square kilometres. Madagascar broke away from the Indian subcontinent around 88 million years ago as part of the breakup of the supercontinent Gondwana, allowing its native plants and animals to evolve in isolation.

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Madagascar (Madagascar (Malagasy: Repoblikan'i Madagasikara

Madagascar is an island country located approximately 400 kilometres off the east coast of Africa in the Indian Ocean. As the fourth largest island in the world, Madagascar comprises the main island of Madagascar along with several smaller surrounding islands, with a total land area of around 592,800 square kilometres. Madagascar broke away from the Indian subcontinent around 88 million years ago as part of the breakup of the supercontinent Gondwana, allowing its native plants and animals to evolve in isolation.

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Madagascar (/ˌmædəˈɡæskər, -kɑːr/; Malagasy: Madagasikara), officially the Republic of

Madagascar (Malagasy: Repoblikan'i Madagasikara Malagasy pronunciation: [republiˈkʲan madaɡas


ˈkʲarə̥]; French: République de Madagascar), and previously known as the Malagasy Republic, is
an island country in the Indian Ocean, approximately 400 kilometres (250 miles) off the coast of East
Africa. At 592,800 square kilometres (228,900 sq mi) Madagascar is the world's second-
largest island country.[13] The nation comprises the island of Madagascar (the fourth-largest island in
the world) and numerous smaller peripheral islands. Following the prehistoric breakup of
the supercontinent Gondwana, Madagascar split from the Indian subcontinent around 88 million
years ago, allowing native plants and animals to evolve in relative isolation

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