madagascar

TOTAL AREA:226,656 OFFICIAL AND OTHER MAJOR LANGUAGES:French and Malagasy** LIFE EXPECTANCY:55 URBAN POPULATION:26% GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT:$800 DOCTORS:9 TELEVISIONS:18 INTERNET USERS:4
 * CAPITAL:Antananarivo
 * POPULATION:17,500,000

OVERVIEW:

ELEVATION:The elevation of Madagascar is mostly 2,001-5,000,

CLIMATE:Madagascar has three different kinds of climate zones. A small portion of Madagascar is semiarid. A larger portion of Madagascar is tropical wet. The rest of Madagascar is tropical wet and dry.

VEGETATION:The smallest portion of Madagascar is desert scrub. The next smallest portion of Madagascar is temperate grassland. The largest portion of Madagascar is Broadleaf evergreen forest.

URBAN POPULATION:The population density of Madagascar is 2-25 people per square mile, a sliver of Madagascar is 25-125. The urban population of Madagascar is 1,000,000-4,000,000.

ECONOMIC ACTIVITY:The land use of Madagascar is commercial fishing, nomadic herding, and commercial farming. The resources of Madagascar are coal.**