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1. Antananarivo Province
2. Antsiranana Province
3. Fianarantsoa Province
4. Mahajanga Province
5. Toamasina Province
6. Toliara Province

The provinces will be dissolved as a result of the new regional subdivision and the constitutional referendum of 2007, but no time frame has been set. Antananarivo is a province of Madagascar with an area of 58,283 km². It has a population of 4,580,788 (July, 2001). ... Categories: Stub | Provinces of Madagascar ... Fianarantsoa is a province of Madagascar with an area of 103,272 km². It has a population of 3,366,291 (July, 2001). ... Categories: Africa geography stubs | Provinces of Madagascar ... Toamasina is a province of Madagascar with an area of 71,911 km2. ... Toliara (also Toliary) is a province of Madagascar with an area of 161,405 km². It has a population of 2,229,550 (July, 2001). ...

History

The six provinces were created when Madagascar was a French colony.

The new constitution of 1992 stated that the country should be divided into decentralised territorial entities, without going into detail. By law of 1994, three entity levels were defined: regions, departments and communes. The provinces were not mentioned in the law.

After former president Didier Ratsiraka, was re-elected in 1997, he 1998 introduced a revised constitution in which the still existing provinces were transformed to "autonomous provinces". They were created in 2000. The official motivation was to make Madagascar a decentralised federal state. Critics say that the hidden motivation was to make sure that Ratsiraka had a solid support from most of the provinces; his party AREMA won the provincial elections 2000 in all provinces except Antananarivo.

With the presidential elections of 2001, in which opposition candidate Ravalomanana claimed that the official figures were fraudulent, the five AREMA provincial governors came out in support of Ratsiraka and even declared themselves independent from the republic.

When Ravalomanana had secured the position as president of the republic, the provincial governors were replaced with PDS'es (Presidents by special delegation), who are still in place. This effectively put an end to the "autonomous provinces", although they nominally remain in place because they are included in the constitution.

Rumours about the dissolution of the autonomous provinces had been around for some time, when on 4 April 2007 a constitutional referendum was held, in which the majority of the voters backed a revised constitution without any provinces. The new regions will become the highest level of subdivision. Madagascar is divided into 22 regions (faritra): Population, area: Madagascar: Profil des marchés pour les évaluations d’urgence de la sécurité alimentaire [1] Categories: | | ...

Provinces of Madagascar
Antananarivo | Antsiranana | Fianarantsoa | Mahajanga | Toamasina | Toliara Image File history File links Coat_of_arms_of_Madagascar. ... Antananarivo is a province of Madagascar with an area of 58,283 km². It has a population of 4,580,788 (July, 2001). ... Categories: Stub | Provinces of Madagascar ... Fianarantsoa is a province of Madagascar with an area of 103,272 km². It has a population of 3,366,291 (July, 2001). ... Categories: Africa geography stubs | Provinces of Madagascar ... Toamasina is a province of Madagascar with an area of 71,911 km2. ... Toliara (also Toliary) is a province of Madagascar with an area of 161,405 km². It has a population of 2,229,550 (July, 2001). ...