Madagascar
Madagascar is the world's fourth-largest island, off the south-east coast of Africa, isolated for 88 million years and home to lemurs, baobabs and a unique flora and fauna found nowhere else.
Madagascar is the world's fourth-largest island, off the south-east coast of Africa, isolated for 88 million years and home to lemurs, baobabs and a unique flora and fauna found nowhere else.
Malawi is a small landlocked East African country dominated by Lake Malawi, the world's ninth-largest lake, which contains more freshwater fish species than any other.
Malaysia is a Southeast Asian federation split between the Malay Peninsula and the northern third of Borneo island, with rainforests, beach resorts, KL's Petronas skyline and a multicultural Malay-Chinese-Indian society.
The Maldives is a chain of 1,200 low-lying coral islands south-west of Sri Lanka, the lowest country on Earth by elevation, world-famous for over-water bungalows and a rapidly threatened reef ecosystem.
Mali is a vast landlocked West African country, mostly Saharan, with the legendary Niger River and the medieval scholarship of Timbuktu, once one of the wealthiest empires in the world.
Malta is a small Mediterranean archipelago south of Sicily, packed with Knights-of-St-John fortifications, Phoenician temples older than the Pyramids, and a unique Semitic-rooted European language.
The Marshall Islands is a Micronesian nation of 29 atolls and 5 islands in the central Pacific, with a Compact of Free Association with the United States, and the contaminated Bikini Atoll nuclear test site.
Mauritania occupies a vast Saharan stretch of north-west Africa, between Western Sahara and Senegal, with iron-ore wealth and a culture blending Arab-Berber and West African traditions.
Mauritius is a tropical Indian Ocean island nation east of Madagascar, famous for white-sand beaches, Creole culture, and being the only known home of the now-extinct dodo bird.