Madagascar is the fifth largest island in the world.
 Three-fourths of Madagascar's 860 orchid species are found here alone, as are six of the world's nine baobab species
ra]), officially the Republic of Madagascar (Malagasy: Repoblikan'i Madagasikara, Malagasy pronunciation: [republikan madaaskar]; French: Rpublique de Madagascar) is an island country in the Indian Ocean, approximately 400 kilometres (250 miles) off the coast of East Africa across the Mozambique Channel

