Antananarivo

Antananarivo, also known as Tana, is the capital and largest city of . It has more universities, nightclubs, art venues, and medical services than any other city on the island.
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  • Type: City with 1,390,000 residents
  • Description: capital and largest city of Madagascar
  • Also known as: “Analamanga”, “Iarivo”, and “Tananarive”
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Queen’s Palace and Catholic Cathedral of Andohalo.

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The Rova of Antananarivo is a royal palace complex in that was the home of the sovereigns of the Kingdom of Imerina in the 17th and 18th centuries, as well as of the rulers of the Kingdom of Madagascar in the 19th century.

Church
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The Immaculate Conception Cathedral is a religious building that serves as a Catholic cathedral located in the district of Antananarivo Renivohitra in the region of Analamanga, specifically in Antananarivo, the capital of .

Aerial lift
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is an aerial lift.

Antananarivo

Latitude
-18.9333° or 18° 56′ south
Longitude
47.5167° or 47° 31′ east
Population
1,390,000
Elevation
1,274 metres (4,180 feet)
IATA airport code
TNR
United Nations Location Code
MG TNR
Open location code
5HH93G88+MM
Open­Street­Map ID
node 27565116
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1070940
Wiki­data ID
Q3915
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Antananarivo” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Antananarivo”
  • Albanian: “Antananarivo”
  • Amharic: “አንታናናሪቮ”
  • Arabic: “أنتاناناريفو”
  • Arabic: “أنتانانريفو”
  • Arabic: “تاناناريف”
  • Arabic: “تناناريف”
  • Aragonese: “Antananarivo”
  • Armenian: “Անտանանարիվու”
  • Armenian: “Տանանարիվե”
  • Asturian: “Antananarivu”
  • Azerbaijani: “Antananarivu”
  • Balinese: “Antananarivo”
  • Bashkir: “Антананариву”
  • Basque: “Antananarivo”
  • Belarusian: “Антананарыву”
  • Belarusian: “Тананарывэ”
  • Bengali: “আনতানানারিভো”
  • Bengali: “আন্তানানারিভো”
  • Bosnian: “Antananarivo”
  • Breton: “Antananarivo”
  • Bulgarian: “Антананариво”
  • Bulgarian: “Антананариву”
  • Catalan: “Antananarivo”
  • Cebuano: “Antananarivo”
  • Central Bikol: “Antananarivo”
  • Central Kurdish: “ئانتاناناریڤۆ”
  • Chechen: “Антананариву”
  • Chinese: “Antananarivo”
  • Chinese: “塔那那利佛”
  • Chinese: “安塔那那列佛”
  • Chinese: “安塔那那利佛”
  • Cornish: “Antananarivo”
  • Croatian: “Antananarivo”
  • Czech: “Antananarivo”
  • Czech: “Tana”
  • Czech: “Tananarive”
  • Danish: “Antananarivo”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Antananarivo”
  • Dutch: “Antananarivo”
  • Esperanto: “Antananarivo”
  • Estonian: “Antananarivo”
  • Extremaduran: “Antananarivu”
  • Fijian: “Antananarivo”
  • Finnish: “Antananarivo”
  • French: “Antananarivo”
  • French: “Iarivo”
  • French: “Tananarive”
  • Fulah: “Antananarivo”
  • Galician: “Antananarivo”
  • Georgian: “ანტანანარივუ”
  • German: “Antananarivo”
  • Greek: “Ανταναναρίβο”
  • Greek: “Ταναναρίβη”
  • Gujarati: “અન્ટાનાનરિવો”
  • Haitian: “Antananarivo”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Antananarivo”
  • Hausa: “Antananarivo”
  • Hebrew: “אנטננריבו”
  • Hindi: “अण्टानानारिवो”
  • Hindi: “अंतानानारिवो”
  • Hindi: “अन्टाननरीवो”
  • Hindi: “एंटानानरीवो”
  • Hindi: “एंटानानारिवो”
  • Hungarian: “Antananarivo”
  • Icelandic: “Antananarívó”
  • Ido: “Antananarivo”
  • Inari Sami: “Antananarivo”
  • Indonesian: “Antananarivo”
  • Interlingua: “Antananarivo”
  • Interlingue: “Antananarivo”
  • Irish: “Antananairíveo”
  • Irish: “Antananarivo”
  • Italian: “Antananarivo”
  • Italian: “Tananarive”
  • Japanese: “アンタナナリヴ”
  • Japanese: “アンタナナリボ”
  • Japanese: “タナナリヴ”
  • Javanese: “Antananarivo”
  • Kabiyè: “Antananarivo”
  • Kalaallisut: “Antananarivo”
  • Kannada: “ಅಂಟಾನಾನಾರಿವೊ”
  • Kannada: “ಅನ್ಟಾನನರೀವೋ”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Antananarivo”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Antananarivu”
  • Kazakh: “Антананариву”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Antananarivo”
  • Kirghiz: “Антананариву”
  • Kongo: “Antananarivo”
  • Korean: “안타나나리보”
  • Korean: “타나”
  • Korean: “타나나리브”
  • Kotava: “Antananarivo”
  • Kurdish: “Antananarivo”
  • Lao: “ອັນຕານານາຣິໂວ”
  • Latin: “Tananarivum”
  • Latvian: “Antananarivu”
  • Latvian: “Tananarivu”
  • Ligurian: “Antananarïvo”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Antananarivo”
  • Lithuanian: “Antananaryvas”
  • Livvi: “Antananarivu”
  • Lombard: “Antananarivo”
  • Low German: “Antananarivo”
  • Luxembourgish: “Antananarivo”
  • Macedonian: “Антананариво”
  • Malagasy: “Antananarivo”
  • Malagasy: “Iarivo”
  • Malay: “Antananarivo”
  • Malayalam: “ആന്റനനറീവൊ”
  • Manx: “Antananarivo”
  • Maori: “Antananarivo”
  • Marathi: “अंतानानारिव्हो”
  • Mazanderani: “آنتاناناریوو”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Antananarivo”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Antananarivo”
  • Minangkabau: “Antananarivo”
  • Mingrelian: “ანტანანარივუ”
  • Moksha: “Антананариву”
  • Mongolian: “Антананариву”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “أنطاناناريڤو”
  • Neapolitan: “Antananarivo”
  • Northern Frisian: “Antananarivo”
  • Northern Sami: “Antananarivo”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Antananarivo”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Antananarivo”
  • Norwegian: “Antananarivo”
  • Novial: “Antananarivo”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Antananarivo”
  • Ossetian: “Антананариву”
  • Panjabi: “ਅੰਤਾਨਾਨਾਰੀਵੋ”
  • Papiamento: “Antananarivo”
  • Persian: “آنتانان‌آریوو”
  • Persian: “آنتاناناریوو”
  • Piemontese: “Antananarivo”
  • Polish: “Antananarywa”
  • Portuguese: “Analamanga”
  • Portuguese: “Antananarivo”
  • Portuguese: “Iarivo”
  • Portuguese: “Tananarive”
  • Pushto: “آنتاناناریوو”
  • Romanian: “Antananarivo”
  • Russian: “Антананариву”
  • Russian: “Тананариве” (historical)
  • Sardinian: “Antananarivo”
  • Scots: “Antananarivo”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Antananarivo”
  • Serbian: “Антананариво”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Antananarivo”
  • Shona: “Antananarivo”
  • Silesian: “Antananarivo”
  • Sindhi: “انٽاناناريوو”
  • Sinhala: “අන්ටනනරිවෝ”
  • Skolt Sami: “Antananarivo”
  • Slovak: “Antananarivo”
  • Slovenian: “Antananarivo”
  • Somali: “Antananarifo”
  • South Azerbaijani: “آنتاناناریوو”
  • Southern Sotho: “Antananarivo”
  • Spanish: “Antananarivo”
  • Spanish: “Tananarive”
  • Spanish: “Tananarivo”
  • Swahili: “Antananarivo”
  • Swedish: “Antananarivo”
  • Tagalog: “Antananarivo”
  • Tajik: “Антананариву”
  • Talysh: “Antananarivo”
  • Tamil: “அண்டனானரீவோ”
  • Telugu: “ఆంటానానారివో”
  • Thai: “อันตานานาริโว”
  • Thai: “อันตานานารีโว”
  • Tibetan: “ཨེན་ཊ་ན་ན་རི་བོ།”
  • Tok Pisin: “Antenenerivo”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Antananarivo”
  • Turkish: “Antananarivo”
  • Turkmen: “Antananariwu”
  • Udmurt: “Антананариву”
  • Ukrainian: “Антананаріву”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Antananarivo”
  • Urdu: “اینٹانانیریو”
  • Uzbek: “Antananarivu”
  • Venetian: “Antananarivo”
  • Veps: “Antananarivu”
  • Vietnamese: “Antananarivo”
  • Võro: “Antananarivo”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Antananarivo”
  • Welsh: “Antananarivo”
  • Western Frisian: “Antananarivo”
  • Western Mari: “Антананариву”
  • Western Panjabi: “انٹاناناریوو”
  • Wolof: “Antananariwo”
  • Wu Chinese: “塔那那利佛”
  • Yiddish: “אנטאנאנאריווא”
  • Yiddish: “אנטאנאנריווא”
  • Yoruba: “Antananarivo”
  • Yue Chinese: “安塔那那利佛”
  • Zulu: “Antananarivo”
  • Zulu: “i-Antananarivo”
  • “Antananarivo”

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