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The human scene

Village scene
Village scene
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Most of Madagascar's people live in rural villages like this one. Antananarivo is the only real city-in many ways a typical overgrown third-world capital-and home to more than one million people.

Friendly and gracious, most Malagasy people are economically very poor. The population of 14 million has an estimated annual growth rate of 3.2%.

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Contents:
1.René relaxing
2.Children
3.Tomb
4.Old fortifications
5.Village scene
6.Rainforest rice paddy
7.Transplanting rice
8.Dry rice tavy
9.Ranomafana tavy
10.Andasibe tavy
11.Vanilla orchid
12.GDP per capita graph
 
Golden Mantella, Mantella aurantiaca

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