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Madagascar (Madagasikara, Business), Toamasina, Antsirabe, Antanifotsy (Malagasy)

The Island of Madagascar (Malagasy Republic) is an East African insular country (Indian Ocean)

  1. Repoblikan'i Madagasikara in Malagasy language
  2. Antananarivo is the economic, political and administrative capital of Madagascar and the largest Malagasy city
  3. Largest Malagasy cities (in parentheses, the province): Antananarivo (Analamanga), Toamasina (Atsinanana), Antsirabe (Vakinankaratra), Fianarantsoa (Haute Matsiatra), Mahajanga (Boeny), Toliara (Atsimo-Andrefana), Antsiranana (Diana), Antanifotsy (Vakinankaratra), Ambovombe-Androy (Androy) and Amparafaravola (Amparafaravola)
  4. Madagascar is one of the poorest African countries
    1. 69% of the Malagasy population lives below the national poverty threshold of one dollar per day
    2. According to the UN, Madagascar belongs to the least developed countries group
  5. Main Malagasy economic activities: agriculture, fishing, transport, tourism and forestry
    1. Madagascar controls 50% of the world vanilla market
    2. Madagascar is the third African rice producer
    3. Madagascar is the world's leading lychees exporter
    4. Madagascar is the world's largest species exporter
  6. Malagasy mineral resources
    1. Madagascar supplies 50% of sapphires global supply
    2. Madagascar has one of the largest world ilmenite (titanium ore) reserves
    3. Madagascar has important chromite, coal, iron, cobalt, copper and nickel reserves
  7. Oilfields in Tsimiroro and Bemolanga
  8. 2009-2013: Malagasy political crisis
  9. Closest countries to Madagascar: the Comoros, Mauritius, Mozambique, the Seychelles, Eswatini and Tanzania

Logistics and Transportation in Madagascar

Logistics: Ports of Madagascar, Toamasina, Tamatave, and Ehoala

  1. Ports of Madagascar: Toamasina, Ehoala and Tamatave
  2. Asia-Africa Growth Transport Corridor

Logistics: Ports of Madagascar, Toamasina, Tamatave, and Ehoala

Business in Madagascar. Malagasy Economy: 50% of World's vanilla market. Antananarivo. Port of Toamasina Madagascar

  1. Masters: Business in Africa, Transport and Logistics in Africa
  2. Doctorate in African Business

Madagascar: Transport, Business

More information: Trade and Business in Madagascar, at EENI Global Business School.

Trade and Business Organisations (Madagascar)

  1. Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA)
  2. U.S.-COMESA Agreement
  3. Southern African Development Community (SADC)
  4. COMESA-EAC-SADC Agreement
  5. Madagascar has an Economic Partnership Agreement with the EU
  6. European Union-Eastern and Southern African States (Madagascar, Mauritius, Seychelles, Zimbabwe) Free Trade Agreement
  7. IORA
  8. Indian Ocean Commission
  9. International Organization of La Francophonie (OIF)
  10. African Union (AU)
  11. AUDA-NEPAD
  12. Economic Commission for Africa
  13. African Development Bank

Madagascar is not a member of the Organisation for the Harmonisation of Business Law in Africa (OHADA)

Business in Madagascar. Malagasy Economy: 50% of World's vanilla market. Antananarivo. Port of Toamasina

  1. Malagasy population: 25 million people
    1. Population density of Madagascar: 35.2 inhabitants / km²
  2. Madagascar is a unitary semi-presidential constitutional republic
  3. Area of Madagascar: 587.041 km²
    1. Madagascar is the fourth largest island in the world
  4. High Central Plateaus (Merina people, Antananarivo)

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  1. Madagascar obtained its Independence from France in 1960
  2. Calling code of Madagascar: 261
  3. Country code top-level domain of Madagascar: .mg
  4. Currency of Madagascar: Malagasy Ariary (MGA)

Transport, Trade and Business in Madagascar, source: CIA

The 22 regions (faritra) of Madagascar are (region / capital / population in thousands of people / Area in km²):

Transport, Trade and Business in Madagascar - regions (source: Vonimihaingo Ramaroson)

  1. Diana / Antsiranana I / 719 / 19,266
  2. Sava / Sambava / 1,007 / 25,518
  3. Itasy / Miarinarivo / 752 / 6,993
  4. Analamanga / Antananarivo-Renivohitra / 3,440 / 16,911
  5. Vakinankaratra / Antsirabe I / 1,852 / 16,599
  6. Bongolava / Tsiroanomandidy / 469 / 16,688
  7. Sofia / Antsohihy / 1,280 / 50,100
  8. Boeny / Majunga I (Mahajanga I) / 821 / 31,046
  9. Betsiboka / Maevatanana / 301 / 30,025
  10. Melaky / Maintirano / 297 / 38,852
  11. Alaotra-Mangoro / Ambatondrazaka / 1,054 / 31,948
  12. Atsinanana / Tamatave I (Toamasina I) / 1,305 / 21,934
  13. Analanjirofo / East Fénérive (Fenoarivo Atsinanana) / 1,063 / 21,930
  14. Amoron'i Mania / Ambositra / 734 / 16,141
  15. Haute Matsiatra / Fianarantsoa / 1,231 / 21,080
  16. Vatovavy-Fitovinany / Manakara / 1,454 / 19,605
  17. Atsimo-Atsinanana / Farafangana / 923 / 18,863
  18. Ihorombe / Ihosy / 320 / 26,391
  19. Menabe / Morondava / 608 / 46,121
  20. Atsimo-Andrefana / Tuléar I (Toliara I) / 1,352 / 66,236
  21. Androy / Ambovombe-Androy / 753 / 19,317
  22. Anôsy / Tôlanaro / 690,019 / 25,731

Madagascar Oil

Main Malagasy ethnicities:

The Malagasy ethnic group makes up more than 90% of the population of Madagascar and is generally divided into eighteen ethnic subgroups.

  1. Recent DNA research has revealed that the genetic make-up of Madagascar is a mixture of genes from south-east Asia and East Africa
  2. Merina, of the central highlands of Madagascar, is the largest ethnic subgroup of Madagascar with approximately 26% of the population
  3. The largest coastal ethnic subgroups are the Betsimisaraka (15%), Tsimihety and Akalava.

The national languages are Malagasy and French.

  1. Malagasy language is of Malay-Polynesian origin and is spoken throughout Madagascar.
  2. 20% of the Malagasy population speak French
  3. English was the official language from 2007 to 2010

The main religions in Madagascar are Traditional African Religions and Christianity

History of Madagascar
  1. 88 million years: Madagascar separated from the Indian peninsula

Higher Education in Madagascar

Minister of Higher Education and Research

  1. University of Antananarivo
  2. University of Antsiranana
  3. University of Fianarantsoa
  4. University of Mahajanga
  5. University of Toamasina
  6. University of Toliara
  7. Catholic University of Madagascar (privada)
  8. Higher Institute of Technology of Antananarivo
  9. Higher Institute of Technology of Antsiranana
  10. Higher Institute of Technology regional Amoron’i Mania of Ambositra (ISTRAM)
  11. National Centre of tele-education of Madagascar

Madagascar is a member of

  1. African and Malagasy Council for Higher Education (CAMES)
  2. University Agency of La Francophonie (AUF)

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