Madagascar movie

Spoiled by their upbringing with no idea what wild life is really like, four animals from New York Central Zoo escape, unwittingly assisted by four absconding penguins, and find themselves in Madagascar, among a bunch of merry lemurs

(Malagasy)"Ancestral-land, Liberty, Progress"|image_map = LocationMadagascar.svg|national_anthem = Ry Tanindraza nay malala ôOh, Our Beloved Ancestral-land|official_languages = Malagasy, French|capital = Antananarivo|latd=18 |latm=55 |latNS=S |longd=47 |longm=31 |longEW=E|government_type = Republic|leader_title1 = President|leader_title2 = Prime Minister|leader_name1 = Marc Ravalomanana|leader_name2 = Charles Rabemananjara|largest_city = Antananarivo|area = 587,041|areami² = 226,597 |area_rank = 45th|area_magnitude = 1 E11|percent_water = 0.13%|water area = 5,500|population_estimate = 18,606,000|population_estimate_year = July 2005|population_estimate_rank = 56th|population_census = 12,238,914|population_census_year = 1993|population_density = 32|population_densitymi² = 83 |population_density_rank = 171st|GDP_PPP_year = 2006|GDP_PPP = $17.270 billion |GDP_PPP_rank = 123rd|GDP_PPP_per_capita = $905|GDP_PPP_per_capita_rank = 169th|HDI_year = 2004|HDI = 0.509|HDI_rank = 143th|HDI_category = medium|Gini = 47.5|Gini_year = 2001|Gini_category = high|sovereignty_type = Independence|sovereignty_note = from France|established_event1 = Date|established_date1 = 26 June 1960|currency = Malagasy ariary|currency_code = MGA|time_zone = EAT|utc_offset = +3|time_zone_DST = not observed|utc_offset_DST = +3|cctld = .mg|calling_code = 261|footnotes = 1Official languages since 27 April 2007}}Madagascar, or Republic of Madagascar (older name Malagasy Republic), is an island nation in the Indian Ocean, off the southeastern coast of Africa. The main island, also called Madagascar, is the fourth largest island in the world, and is home to five percent of the worlds plant and animal species (more than 80 percent of which are indigenous to Madagascar). Most notable are the lemur infraorder of primates, the carnivorous fossa, three endemic bird families and six endemic baobab species.The adjective for Madagascar is MalagasyEmbassy of Madagascar, Washington D.C. (not Madagascan), and the national language is the Malagasy language.HistoryDespite its location close to the African continent, the first human settlers of Madagascar appear to have come from Asia, rather than Africa, between 100 and 500 AD.

The culture shows the influence of both Africa and Asia. The settlement represented the western-most branch of the great Austronesian expansion. Some of the strongest evidence indicating that the settlers of Madagascar came from this region is linguistic: the Malagasy language belongs to the group of Malayo-Polynesian languages, the rest of which are spoken in the island nations of Southeast Asia and the Pacific Ocean.The written history of Madagascar begins in the 7th century, when Arabs established trading posts along the northwest coast and first transcribed the Malagasy into the Arabic-based alphabet Sorabe. European contact began in the 1500s, when Portuguese sea captain Diogo Dias sighted the island after his ship separated from a fleet going to India.In 1665, François Caron, the Director General of the newly formed French East India Company, sailed to Madagascar. The Company failed to found a colony on Madagascar but established ports on the nearby islands of Bourbon and Île-de-France (todays Réunion and Mauritius). In the late 17th century, the French established trading posts along the east coast.From about 1774 to 1824, it was a favourite haunt for pirates, including Americans, one of whom brought Malagasy rice to North Carolina.

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Madagascar Cast

• Andy Richter
• Cedric the Entertainer
• Chris Miller
• Chris Rock
• Christopher Knights
• Conrad Vernon
• David Cowgill
• David Schwimmer
• Elisa Gabrielli
• Eric Darnell
• Jada Pinkett Smith
• Sacha Baron Cohen
• Stephen Apostolina
• Tom McGrath