Physiographic provinces

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 173. Chapters: Alps, Anatolia, Hindu Kush, Great Plains, Saint Lawrence River, Great Rift Valley, Pyrenees, Madagascar, Carpathian Mountains, Yenisei River, Atlas Mountains, Sakhalin, Adirondack Mountains, Taiga, Altai Mountains, Great Barrier Reef, Scottish Highlands, Great Artesian Basin, Guiana Shield, Apennine Mountains, Physiographic regions of the world, Geography of the Interior United States, Western Ghats, Sahara, Pennines, Colorado Plateau, Gobi Desert, Basin and Range Province, Cape York Peninsula, Yilgarn Craton, Kimberley, Murray-Darling basin, Gran Chaco, Mackenzie River, Pamir Mountains, Pantanal, Caucasus Mountains, Dinaric Alps, Blue Ridge Mountains, Geography of the Alps, Pacific Coast Ranges, Tibetan Plateau, Namib Desert, Swan Coastal Plain, North German Plain, Taklamakan Desert, Geology of Nepal, Musgrave Block, Zagros Mountains, Ridge-and-Valley Appalachians, Iranian plateau, Eastern Ghats, Jura Mountains, Sierra Madre Oriental, Cantabrian Mountains, Karoo, Columbia Mountains, Piedmont, Sierra Madre Occidental, Pampas, Kazakh Steppe, Baetic System, Wyoming Basin, Willapa Hills, Alborz, Laurentian Upland, Columbia Plateau, Taurus Mountains, Massif Central, Great Bear River, Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt, North European Plain, Cordillera Subbética, Mesopotamia, Argentina, Aintab plateau, Interlake, Atlantic coastal plain, Pontic Mountains, Aleppo plateau, Sierra Madre del Sur, Wallachian Plain, Appalachian Plateau, Aldan River, Eucla Basin, Carnarvon, Carnarvon Basin, Stanovoy Range, Transylvanian Plateau, Sudanian Savanna, Manbij plain, Great Himalayas, Maritime Plain, Canning Basin, Notre Dame and Mégantic Mountains, Pacific Border province, Mato Grosso Plateau. Excerpt: The Republic of Madagascar (older name Malagasy Republic, Malagasy: , French: ) is an island country located in the Indian Ocean off the southeastern coast of Africa. The nation comprises the island of Madagascar, which at 587,000 square kilometres (227,000 sq mi) is classified as the fourth-largest island in the world, as well as numerous smaller peripheral islands, the largest of which include Nosy Be and Nosy Boraha (Île Sainte-Marie). The prehistoric breakup of the Gondwana supercontinent separated the Madagascar-Antarctica-India landmass from the Africa-South America landmass around 135 million years ago. Madagascar later split from India around 88 million years ago, allowing plants and animals on the island to evolve in complete isolation. Consequently, Madagascar is a biodiversity hotspot in which over 80% of its plant and animal species are found nowhere else on Earth. These are dispersed across a variety of ecoregions, broadly divided into eastern and south-central rain forest, western dry forests, southern desert and spiny forest. The island's diverse ecosystems and unique wildlife are severely threatened by human settlement and traditional slash-and-burn practices (tavy) which have denuded Madagascar of 95% of its original forest cover. Under the administration of former President Marc Ravalomanana, the government of Madagascar partnered with the international community to implement large-scale conservation measures tied to ecotourism as part of the national development strategy. However, under Rajoelina's caretaker government there has been a dramatic increase in illegal logging of precious woods and the poaching and sale of threatened species such as lemurs in Madagascar's many national parks, several of which a...