What Continent is Madagascar in?

Is Madagascar part of Africa or Asia?

Madagascar, best known for its unusual landscapes and the famous lemur, its emblematic animal, is an extraordinary giant island, also called “the Red Island” by the laterite color that colors its plateaus. It faces the eastern edge of the African continent, from which it is separated by a natural border of 400 km: the Mozambique Channel.

Also nicknamed the “big island”, it is the fourth largest island in the world (592,040 km2) after Greenland, New Guinea and Borneo. Thus, from Cap d’Ambre in the north to Cap Sainte-Marie in the South, it stretches for a length of 1,587 km, while it takes 500 km to cover it from East to West.

Undoubtedly the largest of them, the island of Madagascar is neighboring other small “pearls of the Indian Ocean” just as famous: the Seychelles, the Comoros archipelago, Reunion and Mauritius.

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