Madagascar map quiz
Explore cities and landmarks of Madagascar!
Quizzes in this pack
Madagascar: cities, landmarks.
| Cities | 8 questions |
| Landmarks | 8 questions |
Sample questions
- The capital and largest city in the central highlands, known as 'City of a Thousand' built on twelve hills
- Answer: Antananarivo
- The largest port city on the eastern coast, Madagascar's main gateway for imports and exports
- Answer: Toamasina
- Northern city with one of the world's largest natural harbors, formerly known as Diégo-Suarez
- Answer: Antsiranana
- Major port city on the northwestern coast at the mouth of the Betsiboka River, with a hot tropical climate
- Answer: Mahajanga
- Cultural capital in the southern highlands, center of Betsileo culture and Madagascar's wine-producing region
- Answer: Fianarantsoa
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Antananarivo
Central highlands of Madagascar
Antananarivo, the capital of Madagascar, means “city of the thousand”, after the thousand soldiers who are said to have guarded it. It is built on hills in the highlands, and on the highest one stands the Queen's Palace of the old kings of Madagascar.
- Did you know?
- Antananarivo is often just called Tana
Antsiranana
Northern tip of Madagascar
Antsiranana, also called Diego Suarez, lies near the northern tip of Madagascar on one of the largest natural harbours in the world. Nosy Lonjo, a cone-shaped island known as the Sugarloaf, rises from the middle of its bay.
- Known for
- The great harbour, the Sugarloaf, the north
Toliara
South-west coast
Toliara, also called Tuléar, is a port on the dry south-west coast of Madagascar, close to the Tropic of Capricorn. A long coral reef lies offshore, where Vezo fishermen sail outrigger canoes, and spiny forests grow inland.
- Known for
- The coral reef, the Vezo, the spiny forest
Avenue of the Baobabs
Menabe, near Morondava
The Avenue of the Baobabs is a dirt road near Morondava in western Madagascar, lined by about 25 giant baobab trees up to 30 metres tall. They are left from a forest that once covered the area, and many are hundreds of years old.
- Height
- Up to about 30 m
- Did you know?
- Baobabs store water in their thick trunks to get through the dry season
Isalo National Park
Ihorombe Region
Isalo National Park protects a massif of sandstone in southern Madagascar, worn by wind and water into canyons, ridges and towers. The shady canyons hide natural pools and palm trees, and ring-tailed lemurs live among the rocks.
- Area
- About 815 km²
- Did you know?
- The Bara people have long buried their dead in caves high in these cliffs
Ranomafana
Vatovavy-Fitovinany
Ranomafana National Park, named 'hot water' after the springs in the town, covers steep rainforest along the Namorona River. It was created in 1991 after scientists found the golden bamboo lemur here, a lemur new to science that eats bamboo poisonous to most animals.
- Area
- About 410 km²
How it works
Pick a quiz, then find, name or choose your answer on the 3D globe. A round has 10 questions by default, or more, up to the whole quiz. Each round picks what you need most: questions due again, new ones and the places you tend to mix up. In a short round, the questions you miss are asked once more at the end. Spaced repetition then brings them back on later days until you know them.
Every round also fills your mastery badges for the continent or country, the topic and the whole world: bronze at 50%, silver at 80% and gold at 100%.
