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Encyclopedia > Fianarantsoa Province

Fianarantsoa is a province of Madagascar with an area of 103,272 km². It has a population of 3,366,291 (July, 2001). Its capital is Fianarantsoa. The province is home to four major national parks, Ranomafana National Park, Midongy Du Sud Isalo National Park and Andringitra. Image File history File links MadagascarFianarantsoa. ... Madagascar is divided into six provinces: Antananarivo province Antsiranana province Fianarantsoa province Mahajanga province Toamasina province Toliara province Categories: Lists of subnational entities | Madagascar | Provinces of Madagascar ... Fianarantsoa is a city in the Fianarantsoa Province of southeastern Madagascar. ...


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Madagascar - Fianarantsoa (480 words)
Fianarantsoa is the largest town in the highlands south of Tana and is the capital city of the province of the same name.
Fianarantsoa is also the town from which most visitors embark on Madagascar’s most sensational rail journey.
Ranomafana national park is easily accessible from Fianarantsoa and features mountain scenery, dense forest, hot springs and plenty of lemurs.
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Fianarantsoa, bridging high plateaus and the Southeast Coast of Madagascar is one of the poorest of Madagascar’s six newly (2001) autonomous provinces.
In March Fianarantsoa became a strategic focal point in the conflict between the “legal” president and the self-proclaimed “legitimate” president, the latter claiming to have 54% of the vote in the first round and now running a “new” central government in the capital.
Fianarantsoa’s capital on the high plateaus south of Antananarivo was the one provincial capital where the governor had not succeeded in repressing mass demonstrations in favor of Ravalomanana.
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