Long answer short: The Eastern mountains have a better climate for rice cultivation, the staple crop on the island. Also the 1st people to arrive in Madagascar arrived from the East, not West.
The second point is not entirely accurate. The ethnic groups along the coast of Madagascar including the East coast have higher African genetic admixture. It's actually the central highlander groups like the Marina that have a more austronesian admixture.
@@sunnya4310 that is why I specified that the mountains have a higher population. Also Marina/Merina is the largest ethnic group in the country and I think 10%? are considered light-skinned
Quality info but you're needlessly repetitive throughout. You restate several points you've mentioned earlier in the video instead of getting to the point.
Absolutely so true. The only reason I came to the comments was to say that. Overall interesting video and didn't know anything about Madagascar before. But could definitely refine your repetitive speaking.
Them Austronesians were mad sailors. From Taiwan to the whole Indonesia, to New Zealand in the south, to Madagascar in Africa, and to Easter Island in Chile.
as indonesian i don't even know how the fuck my ancestor did that? there is no legacy to us probably due to Christian settler in my world didn't helped us with anything, but still I have thousand question.
@@whanua98 Only the Pacific Islanders (Micronesians and Polynesians) continued sailing. The rest of Austronesians just settled where they were and started building societies, kingdoms, empires similar to Indigenous Taiwanese. They were even more encouraged to remain in their land soon as they acquire some cultural elements from Indians, Chinese and Arab traders
@@jerryberry5480 yes, true because of civilization such as pirate, Islam, Christian, etc. back then sailing is good because water is so empty, and ppl are just believe in mythology and shit. they can still sail if they want to tho, it just ppl change their value to pursue I guess.
@@ikotozafy Architecture of Malagasy very similar to Borneo, Peninsular, Sulawesi and Sumatra, for example, Borneo like 'bubungan Tinggi Banjar' from South Kalimantan, Rumah Lamin from West, Central Kalimantan, 'Rumah Bajau' from Sabah, 'Balai adat Melayu from Peninsular, Riau archipelago and Sumatra',orAND 'Balla Lompa from South Sulawesi. V shape ornament of roof finial called "selembayung' in sumatra and peninsular, Madagascar unique from other Afrca, because of architecture, food, plant and domestic animal more closer to Southeast Asia, Micronesia and Polynesia, like paddy/rice, taro, chicken etc, and one similarity is using Arabic script called 'Sorabe' closer to JAVANESE arabic called Pegon, Malay Arabic called Jawi. pre-Islam Javanese/Java Island used Hanacaraka script and Javan Kawi, Malay used 'Rencong' script, and Sumatran Kawi, Linggi script, gangga malayu script, Bugis-Makassar of Sulawesi used 'Lontara' and Jangang-jangang, Batak People with Batak script, Rejang people with Rejang script, Lampung people with Lampung script, Sunda people with Sunda script, Dayak Iban with Papan Turai script modern with Duging script, Cham people/Champa of Central Vietnam with Cham script, Filipino with baybayin, kulitan, buhid, tagbanwa, hunano'o, and Tausug people/Sulu people of southern Philippine and east coast of sabah with 'luntarsug' the architecture, language, culture, food and ship/boat are similar and connected to Borneo and Sumatra.
@@DhadirMohamed-q2x from what i learned, we have malay, indonesian, arab ancestors. But also very possible that we have African ancestors. We also had our own religion before some British missionaries came here, and our own indigenous people.
I hope Madagascar revived and revitalized local Malagasy architecture and stone-brick work, like in Southeast Asia, Thailand with Thai Usobot, Myammar with Pyatthat, Malaysia with Balai Adat Melayu or Balai Besar Melayu, Indonesia with Rumah Gadang, and also Gate and arch style called Paduraksa", all southeast asia have own style, Architecture of Malagasy very similar to Borneo, Peninsular, Sulawesi and Sumatra, for example, Borneo like 'bubungan Tinggi Banjar' from South Kalimantan, Rumah Lamin from West, Central Kalimantan, 'Rumah Bajau' from Sabah, 'Balai adat Melayu from Peninsular, Riau archipelago and Sumatra',orAND 'Balla Lompa from South Sulawesi. V shape ornament of roof finial called "selembayung' in sumatra and peninsular, Madagascar unique from other Afrca, because of architecture, food, plant and domestic animal more closer to Southeast Asia, Micronesia and Polynesia, like paddy/rice, taro, chicken etc, and one similarity is using Arabic script called 'Sorabe' closer to JAVANESE arabic called Pegon, Malay Arabic called Jawi. pre-Islam Javanese/Java Island used Hanacaraka script and Javan Kawi, Malay used 'Rencong' script, and Sumatran Kawi, Linggi script, gangga malayu script, Bugis-Makassar of Sulawesi used 'Lontara' and Jangang-jangang, Batak People with Batak script, Rejang people with Rejang script, Lampung people with Lampung script, Sunda people with Sunda script, Dayak Iban with Papan Turai script modern with Duging script, Cham people/Champa of Central Vietnam with Cham script, Filipino with baybayin, kulitan, buhid, tagbanwa, hunano'o, and Tausug people/Sulu people of southern Philippine and east coast of sabah with 'luntarsug' the architecture, language, culture, food and ship/boat are similar and connected to Borneo and Sumatra.
List of cities in -I like it to move it move it Land- Madagascar: Antananananananana Toamasina Antsirabe Mahajangan Fianarantsoa Toliara Sambava Tolanaro Antanifotsy *HELL VILLE*
What about another thing being that the nearby French colonies are nearest to the east or north of the country; Djibouti, Reunion, Mayotte, Seychelles, Mauritius and Comoros? I would bet that if Mozambique was a French colony instead of Portuguese colony when Madagascar became a French colony there would have been a major city on the west coast. The largest French colonies near Madagascar at the time by sea were Djibouti, Gabon and Vietnam
I very much enjoyed this episode, Sir! Since I have a passion for Madagascan Euphorbia, and other plants endemic to the island. There are many surprises here, and thank you for bringing them to us.
True SNK fans LMAO. The fact that The island is based of Madagascar is so interesting. I'm also very familiar with Madagascar because it's our closest neighboring Islandand also distant cousins in a way. I'm from The Comoros Islands which are little islands located between Madagascar and the south-east African coast.
Blame the mountain range effect. Its too dry and hot on the West side. Also the East does have it all, flat lands and rain enough to make it hospitable.
Do some geography studies on nations that no longer exist, for example, like Circassia, Tibet , Ache, Nagaland, Kashmir , the kingdom of Hawai’i , crimean sultanate etc
Madagascar's Eastern coast is exactly like Indias Western coast. lush green rain forests and narrow low lands . Madagascars western highlands are like Peninsular Indias Eastern dry places - No wonder Madagascar and India were together 60 millions years ago .
Their original name was Malay - Jazira (Island of Malay), due to Arabic merchat - seamen acknowledge those people come from south east asia (malay tribe). Then the name corrupted into Malajasi, then Malagasi.
@@vinodhk7705 Sorry for misunderstanding, Arabic merchant called that islan as "malay jazira", meaning, island of malay people. So its arabic word, not malay word
Always thought this island was so interesting. So close to Africa but the people look so different, like a mixture of black and Asian. Sad with poverty and prisons there are insane.
@@plouplou1136 They can be called Malay according to that word original meaning. Malay doesn't mean "from Malaysia". It's an old generic term referring to people with a certain phenotype that live in the Nusantarian region. But Malaysia decided to use that term to name a state and then creating a confusion. It's as if an African state was named "Africa" so the inhabitants are called "Africans" and then creating a confusion between the people of the continent and the citizens of a country.
It's from the same racist pseudoscience that erroneously called white people "caucasian" and used words that would be considered downright offensive for certain other groups. It's not based in reality, it's just what some dudes dreamed up
I've spent a lot of time in Madagascar - probably around 6 months total spread out over ten trips. Everything about it "Mad" is freaky unique including 90% endemic flora and fauna. It's a biodiversity paradise that is quickly disappearing due to radical deforestation. And good luck trying to pronounce their names, cities and regions. Geoff, you butchered the pronunciation of every Malagasy city attempted - but no worries. We everyone does, except of course the Malagasy people.
@@SteveFitch-c8k Haha I’m Black-American w distant Malagasy heritage and I am super into their culture and music. Just started learning Malagasy - I pronounce their words and names good!!, I’m use to learning languages quick.. Malagasy is a hard one, no doubt, but I love it..Pronunciation for me isn’t so bad
@@LetMeChillBro Salama, thanks bro. Yeah it’s interesting, a little culture shock at first and now I naturally connect to the culture and surrounding areas, as well as other parts of Africa of course. ‘Gasy got a vibe 🇲🇬♥️
It is not that empty. Its density is 26 people per square kilometer or 67 people per square mile. That is similar to Brazil. Sparsely populated but not very empty. Still overpopulated.
I just perused your map store. Why do the relief maps have dates from so long ago? Isn't current data easy to acquire? Or did you wholesale some old maps?
There was some good information in this video. 13:34 was very strange tho, as you said: "When the geography of one region changes....". Nothing in the geography of either the Caribbean or Madagascar changed noticeably in the time frame referred to.
Let me guess the mountains prevent the moist air from getting to the other side of the island so while they create a lush environment on the east side with abundant rainfall and rivers they create drought on the west side? Was I right? Did I say everything this video is about to say in ten minutes without watching it?
This man is much much much better at 1.5x speed. If he bores you, please try it. The heavy repetition means that information sticks better at that speed.
How is it possible to cross the mighty Indian Ocean on canoes...? 🤷 The Navy merchants who travelled in the Indian Ocean knows what I'm talking about. Some days are rough enough to cause doubt on monstrous sized steel ships and travel in darkness of night without GPS guidance 😢. Old travelers were brave.
I believe some reached and traded with Swahili Coast kingdoms too, although the number might be very small and quickly absorbed by the wider Black-Arab society.
And unfortunately the poorest and most economically unstable as well. Sad, given how well off the island is, resource wise and climatically wise as well.
@@jasonhaven7170 It shows that the initial African arrivals were mostly males, probably workers and not for peopling purpose. The first Asian settlers were mostly women and few men, it shows that the Asian paternal side was an elitist/sovereign lineage that fathered most Malagasy's Asian paternal genetics.
You said it is the 4th largest island in the world several times without actually saying how big it is. For example how many square miles is Madagascar?
App made it the USA, on USA's internet. Now you see how we feel when people make videos on the US and measure everything in metric. It just doesn't compute...
great videos, i would just ditch the super-upbeat-commercial library music in the background. something slower or with less/out drums would be less distracting. thanks Geoff!
Hey Geoff, thanks for the overall very informative video. However, as someone from Madagascar I'd just like to ask that if you do another video about our country, or frankly any country foreign to you in the future, please take some time to learn to say the names and words correctly. I generally like to share videos about Madagascar with my family and friends from there but when the names are butchered so badly as if there's no effort in them it becomes more of a distraction from the otherwise fantastic geographical information that you're sharing. All the best.
I wanna visit this place so bad 🙌🏾 my ancestors calling me. I’m drawn to the whole country but more so the Northern and Eastern parts, looks more developed. But Mahajanga and down to Toliara are some cities on the western side that seem to be more popular settlements.
@@gloriagreen1269 Thank you!, That’ll be great. Where else could I find you ?, I’m learning and planning. Learning Malagasy on my free times, Having a teacher would be nice lol
The Eastern part of Madagascar looks very similar to the western part of India which you mentioned in the video that it broke away from. Looking at the visuals, I could see what I see around myself in Maharashtra. Lush greenery, black basaltic rocks and waterfalls all around. So beautiful!
This may not be PC But i'm forever wonder what would happen in Madagascar plan was fully executed instead of the holocaust Look at Israel/Palestine land, basically desert that can hardly grow anything with few patches of arable lands, and no natural resource And surrounded by enemies that want to destory them Yet they built one of the most advanced country in the world that has higher per capita than France and UK Imagine how powerful Madagascar would be with more than 20 times by size, more natural resources and access to indian ocean and atlantic ocean Madagascar would be up there with countries like Germany, France, UK, Japan and South Korea
Madagascar/Malagasy diaspora constitutes one of the brightest mind in france rn. Without external interference and sabbotage it could easily be a very descent country Without amurrikka and western lobbying your little "powerful" state would've never seen the light of day
If that was the case, Jewish people in Madagascar would just be colonizers and receive hatred. Malagasy people would then be called Antisemitic, it would be just like in Palestine or Gaza, native Malagasy people would be starved to death because they don't want Jewish people to steal their land ... and the story goes on and on ...
I guess the only other group that could have plausibly came earlier were South Indian seafarers, who had the technology for it and had already sailed south to modern-day northern Mozambique on the East African coast. I guess it was just luck. Austronesians engaged in seafaring and settled in many coastal areas of the Indian Ocean. Bantu agriculturalists could not reach there until later due to migrating from very far by foot over difficult terrain. Asking why nearby hunter-gatherers on the mainland did not settle it originally is not really a question worth asking IMO (especially since it is not visible across the, it just didn't happen I guess.
Yes, but if a unique trait really stands out as a defining quality or trait of a thing, then you can emphasize it with the word "very." Everyone has a unique fingerprint, but if your fingerprint appears to produce an image of Jesus Christ, that is very unique.
Uhh... Given that orient literally means east, surely the people of Madagascar have oriented themselves... If they lived on the Western side, they would not be oriented...
Hold on. So the video keeps saying there are 29 million people on the island however, when they did a people breakdown, they only covered about 3 million people. Where the other 26 million people come from if the most populated areas fail to numerically account for the majority of inhabitants??? 🤔🧐
There is no way that Africans were not the first inhabitants of Madagascar. Given the distance from the mainland, it would make sense that the 1st inhabitants were African. Also when the same topic is brought up in regards to Papua New Guinea except, Africans migrated there and Australia. So the question is: how did they miss Madagascar on their way to Asia 😅
Austronesians were known since 10 thousands years to have settled all of the pacific ocean and south east asian islands. I didn't know that Mozambique was a god of navigation i was wrong ? maybe
It's not african that migrated to papua and australia, they were settled by the first humans that left africa after staying in india. European genetics is more closer to african genetics than their genetics, you can't call papua and australia african if you don't call european african. When humans settled papua and australia, there were no humans in europe. humans=homosapiens, it's the only human species in this world that survived
Long answer short: The Eastern mountains have a better climate for rice cultivation, the staple crop on the island. Also the 1st people to arrive in Madagascar arrived from the East, not West.
The second point is not entirely accurate. The ethnic groups along the coast of Madagascar including the East coast have higher African genetic admixture. It's actually the central highlander groups like the Marina that have a more austronesian admixture.
@@user-qf5kl6cv2y i would have said it was because the austronesian came to Madagascar from the east
@@sunnya4310 that is why I specified that the mountains have a higher population.
Also Marina/Merina is the largest ethnic group in the country and I think 10%? are considered light-skinned
@@Thefriedchickenmaster They were the first people that we know of to arrive in Madagascar though
@@user-qf5kl6cv2y yea but people are sensitive
That AK-47 on Mozambique's flag has got to be very scary for people of Madagascar then
Golden comment
Ahaha, except in this case, it’s from their not-so-distant wars against the Portuguese for independence.
Especially since it appears to be pointed eastward towards Madagascar.
Nah. Malagasy people are neither white nor colonizers so they have nothing to worry about!
They can smell the smoke from the AK from across the pond.
Quality info but you're needlessly repetitive throughout. You restate several points you've mentioned earlier in the video instead of getting to the point.
Absolutely so true. The only reason I came to the comments was to say that. Overall interesting video and didn't know anything about Madagascar before. But could definitely refine your repetitive speaking.
I thought he would actually discuss why the east is more populous than the west, turns out it was just a click-bait 👎🏻
Yes, this
@@PrincipalSkinner3190 By the way, you know that 74% of its population lives on the eastern half of Madagascar?
@@rob6927well he did explain it. It's the geography. Further, the first ppl settled on the Eastern side
I could learn about Madagascar all day long, it's an amazing geographic wonder of the world!
yeah fr
@@TrevorJC Yep, I’ve been for the last 2 months 😂
Yeah fr. I would've born in Madagascar had it taken away 5 more kms of land during continental drift
I’ve been here for six years. It’s such a cool country. I make videos about Mada.
Them Austronesians were mad sailors. From Taiwan to the whole Indonesia, to New Zealand in the south, to Madagascar in Africa, and to Easter Island in Chile.
as indonesian i don't even know how the fuck my ancestor did that? there is no legacy to us probably due to Christian settler in my world didn't helped us with anything, but still I have thousand question.
@@whanua98 Only the Pacific Islanders (Micronesians and Polynesians) continued sailing. The rest of Austronesians just settled where they were and started building societies, kingdoms, empires similar to Indigenous Taiwanese. They were even more encouraged to remain in their land soon as they acquire some cultural elements from Indians, Chinese and Arab traders
@@jerryberry5480 yes, true because of civilization such as pirate, Islam, Christian, etc. back then sailing is good because water is so empty, and ppl are just believe in mythology and shit.
they can still sail if they want to tho, it just ppl change their value to pursue I guess.
Malagasy 1-10:
1. Iray
2. Roa
3. Telo
4. Efatra
5. Dimy
6. Enina
7. Fito
8. Valo
9. Sivy
10. Folo
Ma'anyan (the sister language of Malagasy, spoken in Borneo) 1-10:
1. Isa
2. Rueh
3. Telo
4. Epat
5. Dime
6. Enem
7. Pitu
8. Balu
9. Suei
10. Sapuluh
For Tagalog (Philippines)
1 - Isa
2 - Dalawa
3 - Tatlo
4 - Apat
5 - Lima
6 - Anim
7 - Pito
8 - Walo
9 - Siyam
10 - Sampu
We say both “isa” and “iray” in Malagasy
@@ikotozafy Architecture of Malagasy very similar to Borneo, Peninsular, Sulawesi and Sumatra, for example, Borneo like 'bubungan Tinggi Banjar' from South Kalimantan, Rumah Lamin from West, Central Kalimantan, 'Rumah Bajau' from Sabah, 'Balai adat Melayu from Peninsular, Riau archipelago and Sumatra',orAND 'Balla Lompa from South Sulawesi. V shape ornament of roof finial called "selembayung' in sumatra and peninsular, Madagascar unique from other Afrca, because of architecture, food, plant and domestic animal more closer to Southeast Asia, Micronesia and Polynesia, like paddy/rice, taro, chicken etc, and one similarity is using Arabic script called 'Sorabe' closer to JAVANESE arabic called Pegon, Malay Arabic called Jawi. pre-Islam Javanese/Java Island used Hanacaraka script and Javan Kawi, Malay used 'Rencong' script, and Sumatran Kawi, Linggi script, gangga malayu script, Bugis-Makassar of Sulawesi used 'Lontara' and Jangang-jangang, Batak People with Batak script, Rejang people with Rejang script, Lampung people with Lampung script, Sunda people with Sunda script, Dayak Iban with Papan Turai script modern with Duging script, Cham people/Champa of Central Vietnam with Cham script, Filipino with baybayin, kulitan, buhid, tagbanwa, hunano'o, and Tausug people/Sulu people of southern Philippine and east coast of sabah with 'luntarsug' the architecture, language, culture, food and ship/boat are similar and connected to Borneo and Sumatra.
Javanese "ngoko" ( Indonesia ) :
1. Siji
2. Loro
3. Telu
4. Papat
5. Limo
6. Enem
7. Pitu
8. Wolu
9. Songo
10. Sepuluh
@@mochardiansah7452 for Visayan Language. (Cebuano Bisaya)
1. Uzza
2. Dua
3. Tolo
4. Upat
5. Lima
6. Onom
7. Pitto
8. Gualu
9. Ciam
10. Polo
Loved this! I am Malagasy and live here and I can tell you they don't teach a lot of this stuff in school
@@matthieuratrimoson3271 malagasy are they Somalis by their ancestors
@@DhadirMohamed-q2x from what i learned, we have malay, indonesian, arab ancestors. But also very possible that we have African ancestors. We also had our own religion before some British missionaries came here, and our own indigenous people.
I hope Madagascar revived and revitalized local Malagasy architecture and stone-brick work, like in Southeast Asia, Thailand with Thai Usobot, Myammar with Pyatthat, Malaysia with Balai Adat Melayu or Balai Besar Melayu, Indonesia with Rumah Gadang, and also Gate and arch style called Paduraksa", all southeast asia have own style, Architecture of Malagasy very similar to Borneo, Peninsular, Sulawesi and Sumatra, for example, Borneo like 'bubungan Tinggi Banjar' from South Kalimantan, Rumah Lamin from West, Central Kalimantan, 'Rumah Bajau' from Sabah, 'Balai adat Melayu from Peninsular, Riau archipelago and Sumatra',orAND 'Balla Lompa from South Sulawesi. V shape ornament of roof finial called "selembayung' in sumatra and peninsular, Madagascar unique from other Afrca, because of architecture, food, plant and domestic animal more closer to Southeast Asia, Micronesia and Polynesia, like paddy/rice, taro, chicken etc, and one similarity is using Arabic script called 'Sorabe' closer to JAVANESE arabic called Pegon, Malay Arabic called Jawi. pre-Islam Javanese/Java Island used Hanacaraka script and Javan Kawi, Malay used 'Rencong' script, and Sumatran Kawi, Linggi script, gangga malayu script, Bugis-Makassar of Sulawesi used 'Lontara' and Jangang-jangang, Batak People with Batak script, Rejang people with Rejang script, Lampung people with Lampung script, Sunda people with Sunda script, Dayak Iban with Papan Turai script modern with Duging script, Cham people/Champa of Central Vietnam with Cham script, Filipino with baybayin, kulitan, buhid, tagbanwa, hunano'o, and Tausug people/Sulu people of southern Philippine and east coast of sabah with 'luntarsug' the architecture, language, culture, food and ship/boat are similar and connected to Borneo and Sumatra.
@@safuwanfauzi5014 we did not. Even after we gained independence from france we still want to mimick french shit
who is closer?
ILOKANO IN PHILIPPINES
1-maysa
2-duwa
3- tallo
4- uppat
5- lima
6- ennem
7- pito
8- walo
9- siyam
10- sangapolo
I like how he mentions a lot of info twice at least.
Gotta pad that runtime
Thank you for introducing me to a part of the world I knew little about.
Basically, the same reason for the sharp contrast in climates between western Oregon and eastern Oregon, only flipped east / west.
Nice to see the seperation graphic, it really gives you a good example of today's geography.
Hell-Ville sounds like something out of DC comics.
List of cities in -I like it to move it move it Land- Madagascar:
Antananananananana
Toamasina
Antsirabe
Mahajangan
Fianarantsoa
Toliara
Sambava
Tolanaro
Antanifotsy
*HELL VILLE*
I can’t imagine that the name helps much with international investment 🤣
@@eriktroske6405 It was named for French admiral Anne Chrétien Louis de Hell. Officially it is renamed to Andoany.
@@matthiasbehrendt6112 lmao de Hell did you say?
You can find carnivorous plants in Madagascar which you mostly find in south Eastern Asia
@@migyman321 yeah during pangea Madagascar and indian subcontinent are side by side or something
Yeah...Malagasi its part Of Austronesia people...
Mix Mongoloid malayan X Negroid african
@@narutoshipuden2440 or they carried it in 7th centuries for medicine and other things, by sailed.
Thank you for covering my country
Simple answer: because western part is drier and easter way greener
Just look at their map via satellite
Its basically set up this way to shield from the africas
didn't found any comment from Madagascar people
is internet unavailable there?
@@smallcube-zn2mm Lol, they have almost no internet
What about another thing being that the nearby French colonies are nearest to the east or north of the country; Djibouti, Reunion, Mayotte, Seychelles, Mauritius and Comoros?
I would bet that if Mozambique was a French colony instead of Portuguese colony when Madagascar became a French colony there would have been a major city on the west coast.
The largest French colonies near Madagascar at the time by sea were Djibouti, Gabon and Vietnam
Thank you for your great video Geoff! Our country is struggling with many problems but your video reminds us that it is a beautiful place.
Well since you accept the ruling of the scum andry rajoelina and don' t revolt then endure the hell you're living in...
I very much enjoyed this episode, Sir! Since I have a passion for Madagascan Euphorbia, and other plants endemic to the island.
There are many surprises here, and thank you for bringing them to us.
Thanks Geoff! Your knowledge and presentation is great!
Well put
That's strange, I thought the whole population on the island lived behind 3 giant concentric walls, and they fight man-eating giants to survive
@@Victor-dx2ew It isn't Paradise here. 🤣
@ratojo4947 fellow man of culture I see 😎
True SNK fans LMAO. The fact that The island is based of Madagascar is so interesting.
I'm also very familiar with Madagascar because it's our closest neighboring Islandand also distant cousins in a way. I'm from The Comoros Islands which are little islands located between Madagascar and the south-east African coast.
Blame the mountain range effect. Its too dry and hot on the West side. Also the East does have it all, flat lands and rain enough to make it hospitable.
I knew very little about Madagascar but I was always curious. Thank you for sharing this.
Is this AI? Why does it kept on repeating the same information multiple times in different wording?
its made for americans
@@maxkraus7063 It's made to pad the runtime
Do some geography studies on nations that no longer exist, for example, like Circassia, Tibet , Ache, Nagaland, Kashmir , the kingdom of Hawai’i , crimean sultanate etc
Independent states and nations are not the same thing. All of these nations still exist.
@@doridore1234 They're parts of bigger countries with varying degrees of autonomy and responsibility.
@@royasturias1784 You clearly did not understand my comment
Fellow commenter, you will attract a lot of anger with this comment...
I will thanks
Kinda thrilled to see my country 🇲🇬 having such a precise description! You've got yourself a new subscriber!
Madagascar's Eastern coast is exactly like Indias Western coast. lush green rain forests and narrow low lands . Madagascars western highlands are like Peninsular Indias Eastern dry places - No wonder Madagascar and India were together 60 millions years ago .
Annex them back into india
Whenever I saw the ship icon in this video, I just uncontrollably said "Hello ladies"
Their original name was Malay - Jazira (Island of Malay), due to Arabic merchat - seamen acknowledge those people come from south east asia (malay tribe). Then the name corrupted into Malajasi, then Malagasi.
@@ryanpratama8061 Jazira is no way Malay word.
nope. it's austronesian, not part of malay
@@xo4205 malay people is austronesia?
@@treazy8600 Austronesia from Borneo, Malay is a Proto Malays originally from Tanah Melayu/Sumatera.
@@vinodhk7705 Sorry for misunderstanding, Arabic merchant called that islan as "malay jazira", meaning, island of malay people. So its arabic word, not malay word
Always thought this island was so interesting. So close to Africa but the people look so different, like a mixture of black and Asian. Sad with poverty and prisons there are insane.
That's because they are a mix of native Bantu and Malay
@@l-kin3480 Specifically Barito Austronesian from Borneo.
@@l-kin3480 not malay only but mostly indonesian
@@plouplou1136 They can be called Malay according to that word original meaning. Malay doesn't mean "from Malaysia". It's an old generic term referring to people with a certain phenotype that live in the Nusantarian region. But Malaysia decided to use that term to name a state and then creating a confusion.
It's as if an African state was named "Africa" so the inhabitants are called "Africans" and then creating a confusion between the people of the continent and the citizens of a country.
It's from the same racist pseudoscience that erroneously called white people "caucasian" and used words that would be considered downright offensive for certain other groups. It's not based in reality, it's just what some dudes dreamed up
I've spent a lot of time in Madagascar - probably around 6 months total spread out over ten trips. Everything about it "Mad" is freaky unique including 90% endemic flora and fauna. It's a biodiversity paradise that is quickly disappearing due to radical deforestation. And good luck trying to pronounce their names, cities and regions. Geoff, you butchered the pronunciation of every Malagasy city attempted - but no worries. We everyone does, except of course the Malagasy people.
@@SteveFitch-c8k haha at least he tried. Thank you for the positivity towards my country. Much appreciated
@@SteveFitch-c8k Haha I’m Black-American w distant Malagasy heritage and I am super into their culture and music. Just started learning Malagasy - I pronounce their words and names good!!, I’m use to learning languages quick.. Malagasy is a hard one, no doubt, but I love it..Pronunciation for me isn’t so bad
@@micai.j8920As Malagasy myself I have to thank you for being interested in our culture and language
Thank you bro🤝
@@LetMeChillBro Salama, thanks bro. Yeah it’s interesting, a little culture shock at first and now I naturally connect to the culture and surrounding areas, as well as other parts of Africa of course. ‘Gasy got a vibe 🇲🇬♥️
But Malagasy similar to Indonesian language and it has the most simple letters. I mean it has no silent letters and it reads exactly how it writes....
Madagascar should join ASEAN economic group, free trade no tariffs and many benefit between their members😏
I enjoyed this video! Thanks for posting!
What I learned from this video: Madagascar must be where One Piece is located😉.
Attack on titan takes place here actually lol fun fact
@@ihavethebodyofapig7078 huh?
It's Paradis Island of Attack on Titan
The attack on titan world is literally just our world but the map is flipped upside down. The main story takes place where Madagascar is.
@@Rocketdog299 gorosei watch you 🧐
Great video. I learned a lot. I don’t typically give Madagascar much thought. Now I will!
Your geography content is both cool and informative! Thanks for sharing your knowledge! 🌐👏
Malaysian: madagascar is our descent
Meanwhile
Antropologist: madagascar ancestor are coming from Indonesia around 6th century AD to 8th century AD
Those 2 countries don't exist back then
@@fatahaiman8801 and yet malaysian proudly claim people of madagascar as their diaspora. What a hypocrit
Borneo..specifically Dayak from Central Borneo...not mly
konoha mendonia
Taiwan/Formosa wins you all came from there lol
It is not that empty. Its density is 26 people per square kilometer or 67 people per square mile. That is similar to Brazil. Sparsely populated but not very empty. Still overpopulated.
Keep up the great work!
Fascinating cheers 👏👏👏
Another great video where you learn alot. Next time you do another one in Africa consider doing one on the
Great African Rift
I just perused your map store. Why do the relief maps have dates from so long ago? Isn't current data easy to acquire? Or did you wholesale some old maps?
Very interesting and informative video! Good job!
The population shocked me !!
There was some good information in this video.
13:34 was very strange tho, as you said: "When the geography of one region changes....".
Nothing in the geography of either the Caribbean or Madagascar changed noticeably in the time frame referred to.
For subtitles, I recommend Immersive translate. It will generate them perfectly
Let me guess the mountains prevent the moist air from getting to the other side of the island so while they create a lush environment on the east side with abundant rainfall and rivers they create drought on the west side? Was I right? Did I say everything this video is about to say in ten minutes without watching it?
@@mysteriousDSF 5 minutes in, and you've nailed absolutely 0 points so far.
Only thing you missed is that it was also originally settled from Asia.
😮I had no idea Madagascar is so awesome , I have to visit
This man is much much much better at 1.5x speed. If he bores you, please try it. The heavy repetition means that information sticks better at that speed.
Used to work there. Miss the island so much.
How is it possible to cross the mighty Indian Ocean on canoes...? 🤷
The Navy merchants who travelled in the Indian Ocean knows what I'm talking about. Some days are rough enough to cause doubt on monstrous sized steel ships and travel in darkness of night without GPS guidance 😢. Old travelers were brave.
Basically, this island is the farthest west Austronesians can reach.
I believe some reached and traded with Swahili Coast kingdoms too, although the number might be very small and quickly absorbed by the wider Black-Arab society.
And unfortunately the poorest and most economically unstable as well. Sad, given how well off the island is, resource wise and climatically wise as well.
@@TSideWes805 Thankfully politically it is getting settled after decades of coup and bickering.
The Austronesians in Madagascar are of majority African ancestry in their paternal lines
@@jasonhaven7170 It shows that the initial African arrivals were mostly males, probably workers and not for peopling purpose.
The first Asian settlers were mostly women and few men, it shows that the Asian paternal side was an elitist/sovereign lineage that fathered most Malagasy's Asian paternal genetics.
0:15 that’s probably because they’re very antisocial 😅😅😅😅
You said it is the 4th largest island in the world several times without actually saying how big it is. For example how many square miles is Madagascar?
Dayak tribe (Indonesia) move to Madagaskar island
Oh mate, these days, who measures rainfall in inches without even giving a millimetre equivalent in screen?
App made it the USA, on USA's internet. Now you see how we feel when people make videos on the US and measure everything in metric. It just doesn't compute...
@@Gribbo9999 We will not use your weird system. Inches only.
Oh boo hoo
Do the math
Great information!
Nice Video ⭐️
A~free~car & Mad~A~gas~car auto~matic thumbs up from me.
Quite informative 👍
Any map of rain will show you the west is dry and the east gets a ton of rain. Like 3 to 5 times as much in some areas
I think simple answer mountains and climate
Somebody gets is....Finally.
great videos, i would just ditch the super-upbeat-commercial library music in the background. something slower or with less/out drums would be less distracting. thanks Geoff!
Madagascar is an continent island by itself
Exactly what I've always thought
Why do people live here and not there? It’s water or mountains isn’t it?
Now we need a Pirates of Madagascar movie
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Hey Geoff, thanks for the overall very informative video. However, as someone from Madagascar I'd just like to ask that if you do another video about our country, or frankly any country foreign to you in the future, please take some time to learn to say the names and words correctly. I generally like to share videos about Madagascar with my family and friends from there but when the names are butchered so badly as if there's no effort in them it becomes more of a distraction from the otherwise fantastic geographical information that you're sharing.
All the best.
I hit like and subscribe button exactly at the point he said 😅 he actually reminded me on that ..then explanations went on after
I wanna visit this place so bad 🙌🏾 my ancestors calling me. I’m drawn to the whole country but more so the Northern and Eastern parts, looks more developed.
But Mahajanga and down to Toliara are some cities on the western side that seem to be more popular settlements.
Please come visit !
@@micai.j8920 if ever you wanna come. Let me know. It would be a pleasure to bring you around
@@gloriagreen1269 Thank you!, That’ll be great. Where else could I find you ?, I’m learning and planning. Learning Malagasy on my free times, Having a teacher would be nice lol
Greetings to my friend Bernard, who lives there sometimes.
Do you have maps for everywhere...such as tidal in Guatemala
I am one of the descendants of the tribe that populized madagascar from borneo so this is a great watch
Most Malagasies are the descendants of that Bornean tribe.
The Eastern part of Madagascar looks very similar to the western part of India which you mentioned in the video that it broke away from.
Looking at the visuals, I could see what I see around myself in Maharashtra. Lush greenery, black basaltic rocks and waterfalls all around. So beautiful!
Thank you for talking about my country!
Fun fact, we are among the most peaceful countries in Africa second only to Mauritius.
Another Home Run, Geoff!
12:50 Thank you Uncharted 4 for making me aware of this 😅
short answer. Look at from space and see where the green bits are
How were these early maps created? We see an aerial view, but how did they know it looks like that, was the coastline fully surveyed in 1590?
Singapore has a similar demographic pattern as well where the majority of the population lives on the other side of the island, away from Malaysia.
“Domesticated animals like chickens and bananas”?
He meant organisms
I lived there for a year. Great country, air quality in Antananarivo is piss poor, gorgeous island.
TLTW: people on Madagascar aren't Africans, they're Melanesians (nation is called malagasy) and they have arrived from Indian ocean on boats.
Video footage is too sharp. You should lower the settings. 😊
Cyclones are Madagascar nightmares
Bro sounds like an AI came to life
Do a video about the geography of algeria
Wesh!!!! 🇩🇿🇩🇿🇩🇿
This may not be PC
But i'm forever wonder what would happen in Madagascar plan was fully executed instead of the holocaust
Look at Israel/Palestine land, basically desert that can hardly grow anything with few patches of arable lands, and no natural resource
And surrounded by enemies that want to destory them
Yet they built one of the most advanced country in the world that has higher per capita than France and UK
Imagine how powerful Madagascar would be with more than 20 times by size, more natural resources and access to indian ocean and atlantic ocean
Madagascar would be up there with countries like Germany, France, UK, Japan and South Korea
Madagascar/Malagasy diaspora constitutes one of the brightest mind in france rn. Without external interference and sabbotage it could easily be a very descent country
Without amurrikka and western lobbying your little "powerful" state would've never seen the light of day
If that was the case, Jewish people in Madagascar would just be colonizers and receive hatred. Malagasy people would then be called Antisemitic, it would be just like in Palestine or Gaza, native Malagasy people would be starved to death because they don't want Jewish people to steal their land ... and the story goes on and on ...
Insane that the first on Madagascar were Austronesians
I guess the only other group that could have plausibly came earlier were South Indian seafarers, who had the technology for it and had already sailed south to modern-day northern Mozambique on the East African coast. I guess it was just luck. Austronesians engaged in seafaring and settled in many coastal areas of the Indian Ocean. Bantu agriculturalists could not reach there until later due to migrating from very far by foot over difficult terrain.
Asking why nearby hunter-gatherers on the mainland did not settle it originally is not really a question worth asking IMO (especially since it is not visible across the, it just didn't happen I guess.
General Knowledge _ The Innocence of the Martha Island
270 mile
29 million
74% 26%
You probably got it wrong, the center plateau counts for around a half of the country's population.
TL;DW - more rainfall on the East side of the island.
Unique means there is only one. Something is either unique or it is not. It can’t be “very unique” or “pretty unique”.
Yes, but if a unique trait really stands out as a defining quality or trait of a thing, then you can emphasize it with the word "very." Everyone has a unique fingerprint, but if your fingerprint appears to produce an image of Jesus Christ, that is very unique.
Every place on earth is greener to the east. Deserts are always to the west.
Has nothing to do with migrations from Asia
Uhh... Given that orient literally means east, surely the people of Madagascar have oriented themselves... If they lived on the Western side, they would not be oriented...
The "r" is silent. Sounds like Masagasca
We like to move it move move it!
I would find it difficult to pronounce correctly the many cities of Madagascar
Antananananananananananananananana
Mountains…. The answer is mountains.
Hold on. So the video keeps saying there are 29 million people on the island however, when they did a people breakdown, they only covered about 3 million people. Where the other 26 million people come from if the most populated areas fail to numerically account for the majority of inhabitants??? 🤔🧐
Great video but you need some musical variety. Hearing the same loop 500 times is giving me PTSD flashbacks from working retail.
There is no way that Africans were not the first inhabitants of Madagascar. Given the distance from the mainland, it would make sense that the 1st inhabitants were African. Also when the same topic is brought up in regards to Papua New Guinea except, Africans migrated there and Australia. So the question is: how did they miss Madagascar on their way to Asia 😅
Perhaps it has to do with the varying sea level between lands.
Austronesians were known since 10 thousands years to have settled all of the pacific ocean and south east asian islands. I didn't know that Mozambique was a god of navigation i was wrong ? maybe
It's not african that migrated to papua and australia, they were settled by the first humans that left africa after staying in india. European genetics is more closer to african genetics than their genetics, you can't call papua and australia african if you don't call european african. When humans settled papua and australia, there were no humans in europe. humans=homosapiens, it's the only human species in this world that survived