MG — Madagascar

Madagascar is the world's fourth-largest island, located in the Indian Ocean off the southeast coast of Africa. Renowned for its extraordinary biodiversity — about 90% of its wildlife is found nowhere else on Earth — it separated from the Indian subcontinent around 88 million years ago. Antananarivo, the capital, sits in the central highlands. The Malagasy Ariary (MGA) is one of only two currencies worldwide not theoretically subdivided into hundredths — it has 5 iraimbilanja to one ariary. For developers, the MG country code maps to mg-MG and fr-MG locales for Malagasy and French. The Ariary's unusual 1:5 subdivision ratio is a rare edge case in currency formatting. The .mg domain and +261 dialing code serve Madagascar's digital infrastructure. Madagascar's Malagasy language is Austronesian (related to Indonesian and Malay rather than African languages), an interesting linguistic outlier on the African continent.