Attention Village Students be sure to share your individual guesses and not your entire class guesses as prize supplies are limited.
During our travels to this tropical country we encountered a bit of bad weather resulting in us landing a couple of days late and a very bumpy ride. We've landed on the country that lies opposite the country of Mozambique. It is the world's fourth-largest island and is twice the size of the State of Arizona. The country's low-lying coastal area gives way to a central plateau. The once densely wooded interior has largely been diminished due to severe soil erosion, deforestation and overgrazing.
The Capital and largest city found here is called Antananarivo with a population of 1.987 million
Government: Multiparty republic.
The population is made of up of these races/ethnic groups Malayo-Indonesian, CĂ´tiers (mixed African, Malayo-Indonesian, French, Indian, Creole, and Comoran.
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This island's natural hazards are the periodic cyclone, drought and its locust infestation.
Languages: Malagasy and French (both official), English
Agriculture: coffee, vanilla, sugarcane, cloves, cocoa, rice, cassava (tapioca), beans, bananas, peanuts and livestock products.
Industries: meat processing, soap, breweries, tanneries, sugar, textiles, glassware, cement, automobile assembly plant, paper, petroleum, and tourism.
Natural resources: graphite, chromite, coal, bauxite, salt, quartz, tar sands, semiprecious stones, mica, fish, and hydropower.