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Madagascar

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Railway Map of Madagascar

The main international airport in Madagascar is Ivato International Airport in Antananarivo.

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Ivato International Airport

Air Madagascar services the island’s many small regional airports, which offer the only practical means of access to many of the more remote regions during rainy season road washouts. There are 29 airports with paved runways, and 104 airports with unpaved runways.

Flag of Madagascar:

The flag of Madagascar was adopted on 14 October 1958, two years before the independence of that nation, as Madagascar prepared for a referendum on its status in the French Community.

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Flag of Madagascar

The colors of the flag represent Madagascar’s history and traditional peasant classes. Red and white were the colors of the Merina kingdom, which succumbed to France in 1896. They were used in the flag of the last Merina monarch, Queen Ranavalona III. They may indicate the ethnic origins of the Malagasy people in Southeast Asia, and are shared by the flag of Indonesia. Green was the color of the Hova, the largest class of peasant commoners, who played a significant role in anti-French agitation and the independence movement.

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