Antananarivo (province)

Antananarivo
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Basic data
Country	Madagascar
Capital	Antananarivo
surface	55,283 km²
Residents	4,580,788 (2001)
density	83 inhabitants per km²
founding	1965
ISO 3166-2	MG-T

-18.75 46.75Coordinates: 18 ° 45 ′ S , 46 ° 45 ′ E

Antananarivo is a former province ( faritany mizakatena ) of Madagascar with the capital of the same name, Antananarivo . It had an area of 55,283 km² and about 4.6 million inhabitants, of which about 1.5 million lived in the capital. Most of the inhabitants belonged to the Merina ethnic group ( Foko ) . Antananarivo was founded in 1965 and was one of the most important provinces of Madagascar in terms of industry. On April 4, 2007, Marc Ravalomanana held a referendum on an amendment to the constitution, which established a new administrative structure without provinces from October 2009.

In older contexts, the short name Tana is also commonly used .

Administrative division

Until October 2009 Madagascar was divided into six provinces ( faritany mizakatena ). The regions ( Faritra ) founded in 2004 were the second administrative unit until the provinces were dissolved. From November 2009 they became the first administrative unit. The regions are each divided into districts ( Fivondronana ). The breakdown for the former province of Antananarivo is shown below.

Analamanga region (blue):
- 2. Ambohidratrimo
- 3. Andramasina
- 4. Anjozorobe
- 5. Ankazobe
- 6. Antananarivo-Atsimondrano
- 7. Antananarivo-Avaradrano
- 8. Antananarivo-Renivohitra
- 16. Manjakandriana

Bongolava region (brown):
- 15. Fenoarivobe
- 19. Tsiroanomandidy

Itasy region (green):
- 12. Arivonimamo
- 17. Miarinarivo
- 18. Soavinandriana

Vakinankaratra region (orange):
- 1. Ambatolampy
- 9. Antanifotsy
- 10. Antsirabe II
- 11. Antsirabe I
- 13. Betafo
- 14. Faratsiho

Web links

Commons : Antananarivo - collection of images, videos and audio files

Prvonce autonome d'Antananrivo ( Memento of February 6, 2007 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

↑ Administrative units - Madagascar ( Memento of December 21, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
↑ Frederic L. Pryor: Malaŵi and Madagascar . Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0-19-520823-8 , pp. 393 (English, google.de [accessed on November 19, 2017]).
↑ Diana. Ministère de l'Economie et du Plan, accessed on November 19, 2017 (French).

[1] Administrative units - Madagascar ( Memento of December 21, 2008 in the Internet Archive )

[2] Frederic L. Pryor: Malaŵi and Madagascar . Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0-19-520823-8 , pp. 393 (English, google.de [accessed on November 19, 2017]).

[3] Diana. Ministère de l'Economie et du Plan, accessed on November 19, 2017 (French).