Place:Tananarive, Madagascar

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NameTananarive
Alt namesAntananarivo Province
Antananarivosource: Wikipedia
Antananarivo Faritany d'source: NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
Tananarivesource: Encyclopædia Britannica (1985) I, 439; Times Atlas of the World (1985) plate 95
TypeProvince
Coordinates19°S 47.0°E
Located inMadagascar
Contained Places
Inhabited place
Ambatolampy
Ambatomanoina
Ambohibary
Ambohidratrimo
Andramasina
Anjozorobe
Ankazobe
Ankazomiriotra
Ankisabe
Antananarivo ( 1600 - )
Antanetibe
Antanifotsy
Antsirabé
Arivonimamo
Betafo
Faratsiho
Fenoarivo
Fiantsonana
Fihaonana
Kiangara
Kiranomena
Mahasolo
Mandoto
Manjakandriana
Miarinarivo
Poste Ramartina
Soanindrariny
Soavinandriana
Tsinjoarivo
Tsiroanomandidy
source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
source: Family History Library Catalog


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Antananarivo Province is a former province of Madagascar with an area of . It had a population of 5,370,900 in 2004. Its capital was Antananarivo, which is also the capital of the country. Established in 1965, it was the most important province of Madagascar in terms of industrial production. It was one of the most literate provinces and was dominated by the Merina people. Along with the other five provinces, it was abolished in 2007 after a referendum in favour of creation of smaller regions to help in development was approved. It was badly affected by plagues in the 20th century. In 2002 a state of emergency was proclaimed by the then president Didier Ratsiraka. The events that followed led to the other five provinces announcing the creation of a new republic that would have excluded Antananarivo Province. Peace was restored only when Marc Ravalomanana was installed as the country's president.

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