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Transportation

Most People get aroud by foot or ride a bus to get around In the main cities. There are taxis, and to travel from city to city, the people use taxi brousse "bush-taxis". The roads are in terrible condition and have many pot holes and cracks or the roads aren't even paved. A train runs between Antananarivo and the southeast coast, as well as between Mora manga and Tamatave. There is an international airport at Antananarivo. Air Madagascar and Yatso Tours airlines operates flights within the country. Population

The increase in population is significantly influenced by Madagascar's increasingly healthy and youthful population. As a result of more extensive and accessible health care services, for example, Madagascar has witnessed a 36 percent decline in infant mortality from 177 per 1,000 live births in 1981 to 114 per 1,000 in 1991--the average for sub-Saharan Africa was 103. Moreover, as of 1991 a significant portion of the population (estimates range from 40 to 50 percent) was below fourteen years of age, and population density (per square kilometer) had risen to twenty (from roughly fourteen in 1981). The urban population percentage has doubled since 1975, rising from 13 percent of the population to 26 percent in 1992. The annual urban population growth rate in the 1980s was 6.4 percent. Figures for Madagascar's foreign population in the early 1990s are lacking, but in 1988, such persons were estimated to include 25,000 Comorans, 18,000 French, and 17,000 Indians. Government/Name

Conventional long form: Republic of Madagascar

Conventional short form: Madagascar

Local long form: Republique De Madagascar/Repoblikan'i MadagasikaraLocal short form:

Madagascar/Madagasikara

 Former: Malagasy Republic

Capital: Antananarivo

<span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 200%; text-align: left;">The principal institutions of Madagascar are a presidency, a parliament, a prime ministry and cabinet, and an independent judiciary. The president is elected for a 5-year term, renewable twice. The last presidential election was held on December 3, 2006. There is currently no president or government in Madagascar.

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