| Imerina Kingdom of Madagasar Imerina Fanjakan'i Madagascar Timeline: Differently | ||||||
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| Motto: Love, Fatherland, Progress |
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| Anthem: Ry Tanindrazanay malala ô! |
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 Location of Madagascar (green)
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| Capital (and largest city) | Antananarivo | |||||
| Official languages | Malagasy • German | |||||
| Religion | Protestantism | |||||
| Government | Unitary constitutional monarchy | |||||
| - | Monarch | Ramasindrazana II | ||||
| - | Prime Minister | Christian Ntsay | ||||
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| - | Accession of King Andriamanelo | c. 1540 | ||||
| - | German protectorate | 15 March 1886 | ||||
| - | Independence | 5 August 1918 | ||||
| Area | ||||||
| - | Total | 226,658 km2 87,513 sq mi |
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| Population | ||||||
| - | Estimate | 25.26 million (62nd) | ||||
| Currency | ariary | |||||
| Drives on the | right | |||||
Madagascar, officially the Imerina Kingdom of Madagascar, is a sovereign island nation that resides on the shore of southern Africa. Madagascar shares a maritime border with Mauritius, Mozambique, Mutapa, and French Reunion. Its surface area of 226,658 square kilometers makes it the 18th-largest country in Africa and the 48th-largest in the world. With a population of over 25.26 million inhabitants, it is the 15th-most populous country in Africa and the 62nd in the world.
Austronesian people settled the island prior to the first century, later being joined by Bantu migrants from East Africa in the 9th century. Slowly, more tribal groups settled the island, resulting in the Malagasy ethnic group being considered to have 18 subgroups. In the 19th century, a series of Merina nobles unified Madagascar and formed the Madagascar Kingdom. The kingdom fell under a German protectorate in the mid-1880s, which lasted until the end of the Great War, when the protectorate was granted independence.
History[]
German colonisation (1880-1918)[]
Early years (1918-1945)[]
Politics[]
Ramasindrazana II, Queen of Madagascar
The politics of Madagascar take place within a framework of a unitary, parliamentary, representative democratic monarchy. The current monarch, Ramasindrazana II, is the country's head of state.
The unicameral parliament, the National Assembly, is responsible for passing laws, adopting the state's budgets, and exercising control of the executive government through its elected representative, the Prime Minister - currently Christian Ntsay.
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