What the records say
- When
- 1960
- Kind
- Territorial change
- Where
- Madagascar
- Coordinates
- 18.63° S, 46.70° E
- Process
- unknown
- Type
- Unknown process (often independences)
- Pop
- 5393000
- Area km2
- 590000
- Losing
- France
Placed at the area, not an exact site.
Madagascar
African island country in the Indian Ocean
Madagascar, officially the Republic of Madagascar, is an island country in the Indian Ocean that includes the island of Madagascar and numerous smaller peripheral islands. Lying off the southeastern coast of Africa, it is the world's fourth-largest island, the second-largest island country, and the 46th-largest country overall. Its capital and largest city is Antananarivo.
From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA · Read the article
The source
- COW Territorial Change v6Correlates of War ProjectCorrelates of War: free use with citation