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Atsimo - Atsinanana ( South East ) is a ___MASK47___ in Madagascar . Its ___MASK36___ is Farafangana . The ___MASK47___ used to be part of the Fianarantsoa Province . Fianarantsoa is a ___MASK1___ ( commune urbaine ) in south central Madagascar . Toliara ( also known as " Toliary ", ; formerly " Tuléar ") is a ___MASK1___ in Madagascar . In paleogeography , Gondwana , also Gondwanaland , is the ___MASK48___ given to an ancient supercontinent . It is believed to have sutured between about 573 and 510 million years ago ( Mya ), joining East Gondwana to West Gondwana . Gondwana formed prior to Pangaea , and later became part of it . Vakinankaratra is a ___MASK47___ in central Madagascar . The ___MASK36___ of the ___MASK47___ is Antsirabe . Vakinankaratra covers an area of , and had an estimated population of ___MASK85___ , 803 , 307 in 2013 . Menabe is a ___MASK47___ in western Madagascar , with its ___MASK36___ at Morondava . It covers an area of , and its population was estimated to be 592 , 113 in 2013 . The population mostly belongs to the Sakalava ethnic group . The ___MASK47___ is named after the 18th - century Sakalava Kingdom of Menabe ( 16th - 18th centuries ). The name " Menabe ", in turn , means " big red ", after the color of laterite rock that dominates the landscape . The Indian ___MASK99___ is the third largest of the world ' s oceanic divisions , covering ( approximately 20 % of the water on the Earth ' s surface ). It is bounded by Asia on the north , on the west by Africa , on the east by Australia , and on the south by the Southern ___MASK99___ or , depending on definition , by Antarctica . It is named after the country of India . The Indian ___MASK99___ is known as " Ratnkara ", "" the mine of gems "" in ancient Sanskrit literature , and as " Hind Mahsgar ", "" the great Indian ___MASK11___ "", in Hindi . ___MASK64___ , officially the ___MASK9___ of ___MASK64___ (" Bhrat Gaarjya "), is a country in South Asia . It is the seventh - largest country by area , the second - most populous country ( with over ___MASK85___ . 2 billion people ), and the most populous democracy in the world . It is bounded by the Indian ___MASK99___ on the south , the Arabian ___MASK11___ on the southwest , and the ___MASK88___ of Bengal on the southeast . It shares land borders with Pakistan to the west ; China , Nepal , and Bhutan to the northeast ; and Myanmar ( Burma ) and Bangladesh to the east . In the Indian ___MASK99___ , ___MASK64___ is in the vicinity of Sri Lanka and the Maldives . ___MASK64___ ' s Andaman and Nicobar Islands share a maritime border with Thailand and Indonesia . Its capital is New Delhi ; other metropolises include Mumbai , Kolkata , Chennai , Bangalore , Hyderabad and Ahmedabad . Ihosy is a ___MASK1___ ( commune urbaine ) with 16990 inhabitants ( 2004 ) in Ihorombe Region in central south Madagascar . A biodiversity ___MASK13___ is a biogeographic ___MASK47___ with significant levels of biodiversity that is under threat from ___MASK16___ . Norman Myers wrote about the concept in ___MASK61___ articles in  The Environmentalist  ( 1988 ), & 1990 revised after thorough analysis by Myers and others in  Hotspots : Earth  s Biologically Richest and Most Endangered Terrestrial Ecoregions  and a paper published in the ___MASK86___ " Nature " In ___MASK75___ , a supercontinent is the ___MASK82___ of most or all of Earth ' s continental blocks or cratons to form a ___MASK15___ large landmass . However , the definition of a supercontinent can be ambiguous . Many earth scientists , such as P . F . Hoffman ( 1999 ), use the term " supercontinent " to mean " a clustering of nearly all continents ". This definition leaves room for interpretation when labeling a continental body and is easier to apply to Precambrian times . Using the first definition provided here , Gondwana ( a . k . a . Gondwanaland ) is not considered a supercontinent , because the landmasses of Baltica , Laurentia and Siberia also existed at the same time but physically separate from each other . The landmass of Pangaea is the collective name describing all of these continental masses when they were in proximity to one another . This would classify Pangaea as a supercontinent . According to the definition by Rogers and Santosh ( 2004 ), a supercontinent does not exist today . Supercontinents have assembled and dispersed multiple times in the geologic past ( see table ). The positions of continents have been accurately determined back to the early Jurassic . However , beyond , continental positions are much less certain . An ___MASK3___ country is a country whose primary ___MASK72___ consists of one or more islands or parts of islands . As of 2011 , 46 ( approximately 24 %) of the 193 UN member states are ___MASK3___ countries . Ihorombe is a ___MASK47___ in Madagascar . It borders Haute Matsiatra ___MASK47___ in north , Atsimo - Atsinanana in east , Anosy in south and Atsimo - Andrefana in west . The ___MASK36___ is Ihosy and the population was estimated to be 312 , 307 in 2013 . The area of Ihorombe is and it has one of the lowest population densities of the Malagasy regions . The Malagasy ___MASK9___ was a ___MASK100___ situated in Southeast Africa . It was established in 1958 as an autonomous republic within the newly created French Community and existed until the ___MASK65___ of the Democratic ___MASK9___ of Madagascar in ___MASK55___ . Haute Matsiatra is a ___MASK47___ in Madagascar . It borders Amoron ' i Mania ___MASK47___ in north , Vatovavy - Fitovinany in east , Ihorombe in south and Atsimo - Andrefana in west . The ___MASK36___ of the ___MASK47___ is Fianarantsoa , and the population was estimated to be ___MASK85___ , 131 , 700 in 2014 . The area is 21 , 080 km2 ( 8 , 139 sq mi ) . Amoron ' i Mania is a ___MASK47___ in central Madagascar bordering Vakinankaratra ___MASK47___ in north , Atsinanana in northeast , Vatovavy - Fitovinany in southeast , Haute Matsiatra in south , Atsimo - Andrefana in southwest and Menabe in west . Madagascar , officially the ___MASK9___ of Madagascar , and previously known as the Malagasy ___MASK9___ , is an island country in the Indian ___MASK99___ , off the coast of Southeast Africa . The nation comprises the island of Madagascar ( the fourth - largest island in the world ), and numerous smaller peripheral islands . Following the prehistoric breakup of the supercontinent Gondwana , Madagascar split from the Indian peninsula around 88 million years ago , allowing native plants and animals to evolve in relative isolation . Consequently , Madagascar is a biodiversity hotspot ; over 90 % of its wildlife is found nowhere else on Earth . The island ' s diverse ecosystems and unique wildlife are threatened by the encroachment of the rapidly growing human population and other environmental threats . Androy is the most southerly ___MASK70___ . It covers an area of 19 , 540 km , and had an estimated population of 733 , 933 inhabitants in 2013 . The admninistrative capital is Ambovombe - Androy , and the chief administrator is Andrien Hatrifenjanahary ( since 2007 ). Atsimo - Andrefana is a ___MASK70___ . It borders Menabe in north , Amoron ' i Mania and Haute Matsiatra in northeast , Ihorombe and Anosy in east and Androy in southeast . The capital is Toliara and the population was estimated to be 1 , 316 , 756 in 2013 . Atsimo Andrefana is geographically the largest of all Malagasy regions with an area of . Vatovavy - Fitovinany is a ___MASK47___ located in southeast Madagascar .