Updated March 24, 2023
No. of localities: 1
No. of saints in church life: 130
No. of saints attending the Table meeting: 110
Location: East Africa, island in the Indian Ocean, east of Mozambique Geographical
Size: land: 581,540 sq km, water: 5,501 sq km Climate: tropical along coast, temperate inland, arid in south Population: 25,683,610 (July 2018 est.)
Population
Growth Rate: 2.46% (2018 est.)
Languages: French (official), Malagasy (official), English
Religion: Christian, indigenous, Muslim
Government
Type: semi-presidential republic
Capital
City: Antananarivo
Economy: Madagascar is a mostly unregulated economy with many untapped natural resources. Agriculture, including fishing and forestry, is a mainstay of the economy. Madagascar produces around 80% of the world’s vanilla
GDP
(Purchase power parity): $39.85 billion (2017 est.) Communications: Fixed line telephone 68,792 (2017 est.) Mobile Cellular 8,730,499 (2017 est.) Internet users 1,151,563 (July 2016 est.)
Information and map From CIA