Map of Madagascar

Madagascar is located in Africa. Its territory lies in the southern and eastern hemispheres, centred near 20.0° S, 47.0° E. It is an island nation and shares no land borders with any other country, so every approach to it is made by sea or by air. Within Africa, a continent of 54 countries bordered by the Atlantic Ocean and the Indian Ocean, Madagascar is mapped here in full with its borders, capital and key facts.

Madagascar is an island state with no land borders. The nearest countries are reached across open water rather than over a shared frontier.

Madagascar covers about 587,041 km² (226,658 sq mi). That makes it the 45th-largest country in the world by area and the 21st-largest in Africa, larger by area than 33 of the continent’s 54 countries.

It is home to a population of roughly 31,727,042, the 49th-largest in the world and the 15th-largest in Africa, accounting for about 2.2% of the continent’s people. With that land area, Madagascar has an average population density of about 54 people per km². Among the 54 countries of Africa it stands 15th by population and 21st by area.

The seat of government is Antananarivo, and the official currency is the Malagasy ariary (MGA, Ar), and the main official languages are French and Malagasy. Traffic drives on the right, and the country observes the time zone UTC+03:00.

Madagascar carries the ISO country codes MG and MDG, dials on the international calling code +261 and uses the .mg internet domain.

Madagascar has no land neighbours. It is an island nation, so the countries nearest to it are reached across open water rather than over a shared border. Its position at 20.0° S, 47.0° E places it about 2,220 km from the equator, in the southern and eastern hemispheres, within the wider region of Africa.

The interactive map above is centred on 20.0° S, 47.0° E and opens at zoom level 5, framing Madagascar within Africa. A marker pin sits at the country’s approximate geographic centre; drag the map or use scroll and pinch to move from a regional overview down to the streets of Antananarivo. The map is drawn from OpenStreetMap data, the same open dataset used across this site, so place names, roads and coastlines stay consistent from one country to the next.

Madagascar lies about 2,220 km from the equator, in the southern and eastern hemispheres of the globe. As an island, its full extent is best seen by zooming out to take in the surrounding sea.

Madagascar keeps a single standard time zone, UTC+03:00. That figure is the country’s offset from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), the modern reference that for everyday purposes matches Greenwich Mean Time, so local clocks sit +03:00 relative to UTC before any seasonal daylight saving change.

The official currency is the Malagasy ariary (MGA, Ar).

The official languages are French and Malagasy, which is what appears on signs, documents and many of the place labels you will see on the map.

For practical reference, vehicles drive on the right-hand side of the road, the international dialling code is +261 and websites commonly use the .mg internet domain.

In short, Madagascar is an island nation in Africa, with no land borders. Its capital is Antananarivo. Madagascar has a population of about 31,727,042 and covers around 587,041 km² (226,658 sq mi), ranking it 49th in the world by population and 45th by area. The interactive map, facts table and questions on this page bring those details together in one place for Madagascar.

The flag of Madagascar features a white vertical band on the hoist side that takes up about one-third the width of the field, and two equal horizontal bands of red and green adjoining the vertical band.

The flag of Madagascar is shown above as an emoji, rendered by your device’s own font; see it alongside every other nation on the flags of the world page.