Madagascar

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Madagascar is a large island nation in the Indian Ocean, off the east coast of Africa. Seventeen million people live there; its capital is Antananarivo.

Geologists say that about two million years ago, Madagascar was a part of the African continent, but it broke off and drifted to where it is now.

The island shares its name with the title of a 2005 CGI movie from DreamWorks Pictures.