Overview
Madagascar is a large island in the Indian Ocean located right off the coast of Southeastern Africa. It is the fourth largest island in the world with an area of 587,285 square kilometers and is separated from the continent of Africa by the Mozambique Channel.
Research suggests that the island was uninhabited until the first Malayo-Indonesian seafarers arrived some 1800 years ago. One migration theory asserts that these migrants reached the island after a long journey with stops along the coasts of India, the Arabian peninsula and Eastern Africa. Research also suggests that the Malagasy people evolved from successive waves of immigration over several centuries, a fact that accounts for the diversity of racial, ethnic and cultural features in the population of the island today.
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