మడగాస్కర్: కూర్పుల మధ్య తేడాలు

[[Tropical cyclone]]s cause damage to infrastructure and local economies as well as loss of life.<ref name="LOC">{{cite web|last = Metz |first = Helen Chapin |year = 1994 |title = Library of Congress Country Studies: Madagascar |url=http://countrystudies.us/madagascar/ |accessdate =1 February 2011 |archiveurl = https://www.webcitation.org/64jOW1dDD |archivedate = 1 February 2011}}</ref> In 2004, [[Cyclone Gafilo]] became the strongest cyclone ever recorded to hit Madagascar. The storm killed 172 people, left 214,260 homeless<ref name=gafilo>{{cite web|author= International Federation of Red Cross And Red Crescent Societies |publisher=ReliefWeb|date=25 February 2005|accessdate=31 March 2011|title=Madagascar: Cyclone Gafilo, Final Report, Appeal 08/04|url=http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900sid/DDAD-69XMQW?OpenDocument&rc=1&emid=2004-0103 |archiveurl = https://www.webcitation.org/6AJwJLJ5X |archivedate = 31 August 2012}}</ref> and caused more than US$250&nbsp;million in damage.<ref name=autogenerated1>{{cite web|author= Integrated Regional Information Networks|publisher=ReliefWeb|date=2 July 2004|accessdate=9 September 2012|title= Madagascar: Saving the children from Gafilo's aftermath |url=http://reliefweb.int/report/madagascar/madagascar-saving-children-gafilos-aftermath |archiveurl = https://www.webcitation.org/6AXdqXMlF |archivedate = 9 September 2012}}</ref>

 

[[File:Ravenala madagascariensis Maui.jpg|thumb|upright|alt=tall, fan-like palm tree |The island's iconic [[Ravenala madagascariensis|traveller's palm]] (''ravinala'') features in the national emblem.]]