Madagascar

Madagascar in pictures

Flag, landscapes, landmarks and wildlife you can meet in the games. Photographs come from each subject’s Wikipedia article.

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  Flag

  Flag of Madagascar

  National flag

• 🌍Avenue of the Baobabs

  Landscape

  Avenue of the Baobabs

  A real place in Madagascar

• 🗡️Tsingy de Bemaraha

  Landmark

  Tsingy de Bemaraha

  A forest of razor-sharp limestone spikes where lemurs leap between blades.

• 🌳Avenue of the Baobabs

  Landmark

  Avenue of the Baobabs

  Baobabs up to 800 years old lining an old forest road.

• 🐾Andasibe rainforest

  Landmark

  Andasibe rainforest

  Home of the indri, a lemur that sings across the treetops.

• 👑Royal Hill of Ambohimanga

  Landmark

  Royal Hill of Ambohimanga

  The sacred hill town of the Merina kings.

• 🐒Ring-tailed lemur

  Wildlife

  Ring-tailed lemur

  Lemurs live wild nowhere else on Earth but Madagascar.

• 🐁Aye-aye

  Wildlife

  Aye-aye

  It taps wood with a long thin finger and listens for grubs inside.

• 🐈Fossa

  Wildlife

  Fossa

  Half cat, half mongoose — it hunts lemurs through the treetops.

• 🐒Indri

  Wildlife

  Indri

  The largest lemur, and it sings in family choirs heard two kilometres away.

• 🦎Panther chameleon

  Wildlife

  Panther chameleon

  Half the world's chameleon species live on this one island.

• 🐟Coelacanth

  Wildlife

  Coelacanth

  Thought extinct for 65 million years until one was caught in 1938.

• 🐋Dugong

  Wildlife

  Dugong

  Sailors' 'mermaids' — it grazes underwater meadows like a cow.

• 🐦Hamerkop

  Wildlife

  Hamerkop

  It builds the biggest nest of any African bird — strong enough to stand on.

• 🏙️Antananarivo

  City

  Antananarivo

  Capital of Madagascar

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