Where is Madagascar?
Madagascar is an island country in Eastern Africa, with no land borders.
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Crazy but True
Around 90 percent of the wildlife in Madagascar exists nowhere else on Earth. The island broke away from other landmasses tens of millions of years ago and its animals evolved in isolation, producing lemurs, chameleons and the baobab avenue. Nothing else on the planet looks quite like it.
Madagascar facts
- Capital
- Antananarivo
- Population
- 32,740,678 (2025)
- Area
- 587,041 km²
- Continent
- Africa
- Region
- Eastern Africa
- Currency
- Malagasy ariary (MGA)
- Languages
- French and Malagasy
- Coordinates
- -20°, 47°
- Landlocked
- No
- Country code
- MG · MDG
How Madagascar compares
- Madagascar is the 46th largest of the 168 countries on our map by area.
- It is smaller than Ukraine and larger than Botswana.
- It is the 49th most populous of the 167 with population data.
- It has no land borders, one of 16 such countries on our map.
- Within Africa, it is the 21st largest of 49 countries by area.