Madagascar
Updated: Sep 29, 2022
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Country Name
Madagascar, or officially the Republic of Madagascar.
Location
Madagascar is an island located off the southern coast of Africa. Madagascar is bordered by the Indian Ocean and is east of Mozambique.
It shares maritime borders with Comoros, Mauritius, Mozambique, Réunion, Mayotte, and South Africa.

Capital
Antananarivo.
The reason for naming the country
The name Madageiscar was first recorded in the memoirs of 13th-century Venetian explorer Marco Polo as a corrupted transliteration of the name Mogadishu, the Somali port with which Polo had confused the island.