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This is an essay about Madagascar. The geography, government, culture, and society are discussed.
Title: This is an essay about Madagascar. The geography, government, culture, and society are discussed.
Category: Society & Culture / Geography
Details: Words: 1367 | Pages: 5.8 (approximately 235 words/page)
This is an essay about Madagascar. The geography, government, culture, and society are discussed.
Madagascar is the worlds fourth largest island located 20° N and 47° E, just off the shore of Mozambique (Southern Africa). The area of the island is 587,040 kilometers ", with 4,828 kilometers of coastline, and it is slightly larger than twice the size of Arizona. Madagascar is a high plateau with a narrow coastal plain and mountains on the top. Their main natural resources consist of graphite, chromite, coal, bauxite, salt, quartz, tar sands, semiprecious stones, mica, fish, and …showed first 75 words of 1367 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1367 total…that the Betsileo people also live within this region, and the Merina themselves have settled in other regions of the country. Equally important, many côtiers do not live anywhere near the coast. In this sense, the central highlands/côtier split is best understood as the historical outcome of the domination of the Merina empire, the original center of which was Imerina (around the city of Antananarivo) and was located in the central highlands.
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