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Madagascar (nation) |
Coordinates: |
| Lat: 20 00 00 S degrees minutes |
Lat: -20.0000 decimal degrees |
| Long: 047 00 00 E degrees minutes |
Long: 47.0000 decimal degrees |
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Note: Comprises the island of the same name and surrounding islets. Malayo/Indonesian immigration occurred ca. 1000 BCE via African coast; Africo-Arabs arrived later; Portuguese landed ca. 1500; several important native kingdoms flourished 17th-19th centuries; French settled 17th-18th centuries; official languages are Malagasy (of Malayo-Polynesian origin) and French. |
Names: |
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| Madagasikara (preferred,C,V,Malagasy-P,U,N)
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| Repoblikan'i Madagasikara (C,V,O,Malagasy,U,N)
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| Repoblika Malagasy (C,V)
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| Madagascar (C,V,English-P,U,N)
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| Madagascar (Tagalog)
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| Madagascar (Vietnamese)
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| Madagascar (Ilocano)
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| Madagascar (Danish)
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| Madagascar (Portuguese)
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| Madagascar (Romanian)
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| Madagascar (Spanish-P,U,N)
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| Madagascar (Catalan)
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| Madagascar (Aragonese)
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| Madagascar (Asturian)
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| Madagascar (Irish Gaelic)
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| Madagascar (Scots Gaelic)
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| Madagascar (Welsh)
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| Madagascar (French-P,U,N)
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| Madagascar (Galician)
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| Madagascar (Italian)
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| Madagascar (Piemontese)
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| Madagascar (Occitan)
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| Madagascar (Romansh)
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| Madagascar (Malay (macrolanguage))
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| Madagascar (Pampanga)
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| Madagascar (Shona)
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| Madagascar (Interlingua (International Auxiliary Language Association))
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| République de Madagascar (C,V,O,French,U,N)
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| Republic of Madagascar (C,O,English,U,N)
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| República de Madagascar (C,O,Spanish,U,N)
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| Madagaskar (C,O,Somali)
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| Madagaskar (Maltese)
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| Madagaskar (Indonesian)
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| Madagaskar (Croatian)
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| Madagaskar (Bosnian)
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| Madagaskar (Danish)
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| Madagaskar (Norwegian (Nynorsk))
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| Madagaskar (Finnish)
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| Madagaskar (Swedish)
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| Madagaskar (Polish)
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| Madagaskar (Slovak)
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| Madagaskar (Slovene)
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| Madagaskar (Basque)
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| Madagaskar (Kurdish)
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| Madagaskar (Hausa)
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| Madagaskar (German)
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| Madagaskar (Low German)
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| Madagaskar (Albanian)
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| Madagaskar (Breton)
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| Madagaskar (Cornish)
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| Madagaskar (Czech)
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| Madagaskar (Dutch)
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| Madagaskar (Afrikaans)
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| Madagaskar (Icelandic)
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| Madagaskar (Faroese)
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| Madagaskar (Estonian)
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| Madagaskar (Greenlandic)
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| Madagaskar (Turkish)
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| Madagaskar (Norwegian (Bokmål))
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| Madagaskar (Malay (macrolanguage))
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| Madagaskar (Norwegian)
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| Madagaskar (Northern Sami)
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| Madagaskar (Ido)
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| Мадагаскар (C,O,Tajik)
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| Мадагаскар (Serbian)
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| Мадагаскар (Macedonian)
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| Мадагаскар (Bulgarian)
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| Мадагаскар (Russian-P,U)
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| Мадагаскар (Ukrainian)
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| Мадагаскар (Belarusian)
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| Республика Мадагаскар (C,O,Russian,U)
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| 马达加斯加 (C,O,Chinese-P,U)
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| 马达加斯加共和国 (C,O,Chinese,U)
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| مدغضلر (C,O,Arabic-P,U)
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| جُهور ةً مدغضلر (C,O,Arabic,U)
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| MDG (C,O,ISO3L)
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| MG (C,O,ISO2L)
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| ISO450 (C,O,ISO3N)
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| MA (C,O,FIPS)
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| Malagasy (C,O,English,U,A)
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| מדגסקר (C,U,Hebrew )
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| Bukini (C,U,Kikuyu)
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| Bukini (Swahili (generic))
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| Grande-Île (C,U)
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| Grande-Terre (C,U)
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| Île Rouge (C,U)
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| i-Madagascar (C,U,Zulu)
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| La Grand Île de Madagascar (C,U)
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| Madagáscar (C,U,Portuguese)
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| Madagascar and Dependencies (C,U)
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| Madagascaria (C,U,Latin)
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| Madagasika (C,U,Ganda (Ugandan language))
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| Madagasikari (C,U,Rundi)
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| Madagasikari (Bambara)
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| Madagasikari (Lingala)
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| Madagasikari (Luba-Katanga)
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| Madagaska (C,U,Akan)
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| Madagaska (North Ndebele)
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| Madagaska (Swahili (generic))
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| Madagaskaar (C,U,Fulah)
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| Madagaska nutome (C,U,Ewe)
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| Madagaskara (C,U,Latvian)
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| Madagaskära (C,U,Sangho)
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| Madagaskaras (C,U,Lithuanian)
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| Madagaskaro (C,U,Esperanto)
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| Madagaszkár (C,U,Magyar (Hungarian))
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| Ma-đa-gát-xca (C,U,Vietnamese)
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| Ma-đa-gát-xca (Madagascar) (C,U,Vietnamese)
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| Madaqaskar (C,U,Azerbaijani)
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| Maddajaßka (C,U)
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| Madegaskari (C,U,Albanian)
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| Malagash Republic (C,U)
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| Malgache (C,U)
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| Matakasika (C,U,Tonga (Tonga Islands))
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| Orílẹ́ède Madasika (C,U,Yoruba)
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| Repoblikan’i Madagasikara (C,U,Malagasy)
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| République Démocratique de Madagascar (C,U)
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| Territoire de Madagascar (C,U)
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| Territoire de Madagascar et Dépendances (C,U)
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| মাদাগাস্কার (C,U,Bengali)
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| Μαδαγασκάρη (C,U,Greek)
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| 마다가스카르 (C,U,Korean)
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| मदागास्कर (C,U,Hindi)
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| มาดากัสการ์ (C,U,Thai)
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| ماداگاسکار (C,U,Kurdish)
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| ماداگاسکار (Persian-Farsi)
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| მადაგასკარი (C,U,Georgian)
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| मडगास्कर (C,U,Sanskrit)
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| मडगास्कर (Kashmiri)
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| മഡഗാസ്കര് (C,U,Malayalam)
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| ماداگاسكار (C,U,Uyghur)
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| ម៉ាដាហ្កាស្ការ (C,U,Khmer)
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| マダガスカル (C,U,Japanese)
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| ประเทศมาดากัสการ์ (C,U,Thai)
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| Мадаґаскар (C,U,Ukrainian)
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| மடகாஸ்கர் (C,U,Tamil)
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| ມາຄາກັສກາ (C,U,Lao)
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| مادغاسکر (C,U,Pashto)
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| مدغشقر (C,U,Arabic)
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| ማዳጋስካር (C,U,Tigrinya)
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| ማዳጋስካር (Amharic)
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| Մադագասկար (C,U,Armenian)
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| 마다카스카르 (C,U,Korean)
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| မဒဂတ်စကာ (C,U,Burmese)
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| મેડાગાસ્કર (C,U,Gujarati)
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| ಮಡಗಾಸ್ಕರ್ (C,U,Kannada)
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| マダガスカル共和国 (C,U,Japanese)
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| मडागास्कर (C,U,Nepali)
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| మాడ్గాస్కార్ (C,U,Telugu)
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| ମାଡାଗାସ୍କର୍ (C,U,Odia)
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| مڈغاسکر (C,U,Urdu)
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| मेडागास्कर (C,U,Hindi)
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| མ་དཱ་གྷསྐཱར། (C,U,Tibetan)
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| मादागास्कर (C,U,Marathi)
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| Democratic Republic of Madagascar (H,O)
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| Malagasy Republic (H,O)
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| Malgache Republic (H,O)
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| Repoblika Demokratika Malagasy (H,V)
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| Repoblika Demokratika n'i Madagaskar (H,V)
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| République démocratique de Madagascar (H,V)
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| République Malgache (H,V)
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Hierarchical Position: |
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Place Types: |
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| nation (preferred, C) |
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gained independence 1960 |
| primary political unit (C) |
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| independent sovereign nation (C) |
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| republic (C) |
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initially in French Community 1958 |
| island nation (C) |
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| former territory/colony/dependent state (C) |
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| controlled region (H) |
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French, 1868-1960 |
| territory (H) |
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in French Union, 1946 |
| kingdom (H) |
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abolished by French in 1897 |
| colony (H) |
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French, 1896-1924 |
| independent political entity (C) |
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Related geographic places: |
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| capital is .... |
Antananarivo .......... (inhabited place) |
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(World, Africa, Madagascar, Antananarivo province) [7000553] |
| distinguished from .... |
Madagascar .......... (island) |
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(World, Africa, Madagascar) [7030367] |
| member of .... |
United Nations .......... (organization) |
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(World) [7029605] |
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joined organization in 1960 |
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Sources and Contributors: |
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| La Grand Île de Madagascar.......... |
[VP] |
| ............................................... |
GeoNames online [n.d.] 1062947 |
| Madagascar and Dependencies.......... |
[VP] |
| ............................................... |
GeoNames online [n.d.] 1062947 |
| Ma-đa-gát-xca (Madagascar).......... |
[VP] |
| ............................................... |
GeoNames online [n.d.] 1062947 |
| République démocratique de Madagascar.......... |
[VP] |
| .............................................................. |
ISO Handbook (1988) 780 |
| République Démocratique de Madagascar.......... |
[VP] |
| .............................................................. |
GeoNames online [n.d.] 1062947 |
| Territoire de Madagascar et Dépendances.......... |
[VP] |
| ................................................................. |
GeoNames online [n.d.] 1062947 |
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