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Madagascar

The world's 4th largest island, off Africa's south-east coast, split from the mainland some 160 million years ago and from India about 88 million years ago, long enough in isolation that around 90% of its wildlife exists nowhere else, including over 100 species of lemur.

A row of towering baobab trees (Adansonia grandidieri) lit by sunset along the Avenue of the Baobabs near Morondava, Madagascar

Avenue of the Baobabs

Photo: Rod Waddington, CC BY-SA 2.0

White for purity and sovereignty, red and green from the historic Merina kingdom's court colors: red for the highlands, green for the coastal peoples. Adopted in 1958, ahead of independence from France in 1960.

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