The island state of Madagascar is situated on the island with the same name and small islands around it. Islands are in Indian Ocean, near to the African continent. Climate is tropical. In summer the average temperature is +30 °С and in winter it is near +13 °С. In XIV-XV centuries on the island of Madagascar there was a state Imerania. Till 1896 the country remained the independent state and then it became the colony of France. Now Madagascar is constitutional republic which is a part of the French Community. The country is divided into 6 provinces. The republic of Madagascar is the agrarian country; here there are various kinds of food and plants. In the western areas of Madagascar the cattle breeding sector is developed. On islands there are rich deposits of semiprecious stones, graphite and chromite. On island there are many various natural sights like geysers, falls and lakes which were formed in craters of extinct volcanoes.