Toamasina Province
The Toamasina Province is a former province of Madagascar with an area of 71,911 km2. It had a population of 2,855,600. Its capital was Toamasina, the most important seaport of the country.Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Toamasina and Île Sainte-Marie.
Toamasina
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Toamasina is a port city on the east coast of Madagascar. It is still commonly called Tamatave, which was its official name until 1977. The population of Toamasina was just over 500,000 as of 2023.
Île Sainte-Marie
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Île Sainte-Marie in Madagascar's Toamasina Province is the relaxed alternative to the resorts of Nosy Be.
Zahamena National Park
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Zahamena National Park is in the Toamasina Province of Madagascar. It's one of the six national parks making up the UNESCO World Heritage site Rainforests of the Atsinanana.
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Explore places such as Andasibe-Mantadia National Park and Foulpointe.
Andasibe-Mantadia National Park
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Andasibe-Mantadia National Park is about 150 km from Antananarivo in the Toamasina Province of Madagascar. The combined parks are perhaps best known as the home of the Indri lemurs, which is the largest surviving lemur species whose singing can be heard for miles each morning and evening.
Foulpointe
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Mahavelona is a town is in Toamasina Province. It is a quiet and peaceful village in the northeast of Madagascar, in the region of Atsinanana. This former 18th-century French counter is today a beautiful seaside resort.
Vatomandry
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Vatomandry is a town in and the administrative center of the Vatomandry District, Atsinanana Region, Madagascar. An airport serves the city.
Île aux Nattes
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Île aux Nattes is a small island south of Île Sainte-Marie, an island off the east coast of Madagascar. Both belong to the region of Analanjirofo, in the Toamasina Province.
Toamasina Province
- Type: State with 2,860,000 residents
- Description: province of Madagascar
- Neighbors: Antananarivo Province, Antsiranana Province, Fianarantsoa Province, and Mahajanga Province
- Categories: province of Madagascar and locality
- Location: Madagascar, East African Islands, Africa
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Latitude of center
-17.7508° or 17° 45′ 3″ southLongitude of center
48.7525° or 48° 45′ 9″ eastPopulation
2,860,000OpenStreetMap ID
node 4346563424OpenStreetMap feature
place=stateWikidata ID
Q639418
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Zulu—“Toamasina Province” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “إقليم تواماسينا”
- Arabic: “مقاطعة تواماسينا”
- Armenian: “Թոամասինայի գավառ”
- Basque: “Toamasinako probintzia”
- Belarusian: “Туамасіна (правінцыя)”
- Belarusian: “Туамасіна”
- Belarusian: “Туамасына”
- Bulgarian: “Тоамасина”
- Catalan: “Província de Toamasina”
- Chechen: “Туамасина (провинци)”
- Chechen: “Туамасина”
- Chinese: “Toamasina Séng”
- Chinese: “图阿马西拉省”
- Chinese: “图阿马西纳省”
- Chinese: “圖阿馬西納省”
- Danish: “Toamasina-provinsen”
- Dutch: “Toamasina”
- Esperanto: “Provinco Toamasina”
- Esperanto: “Toamasina Provinco”
- Esperanto: “Toamasina”
- Estonian: “Toamasina autonoomne provints”
- Estonian: “Toamasina provints”
- Finnish: “Toamasinan provinssi”
- French: “province de Tamatave”
- French: “Province de Tamatave”
- French: “province de Toamasina”
- French: “Toamasina”
- Georgian: “ტუამასინის პროვინცია”
- German: “Provinz Toamasina”
- German: “Toamasina”
- Greek: “Επαρχία Τοαμασίνα”
- Hebrew: “מחוז טומאסינה”
- Indonesian: “Provinsi Toamasina”
- Italian: “provincia di Toamasina”
- Italian: “Provincia di Toamasina”
- Japanese: “トアマシナ州”
- Korean: “토아마시나주”
- Malagasy: “Faritanin’ i Toamasina”
- Malagasy: “Lisitra ny tanàna ny Madagasikara ara-paritàny”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Toamasina Séng”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Toamasina”
- Norwegian: “Toamasina”
- Persian: “تواماسینا”
- Polish: “Prowincja Toamasina”
- Portuguese: “Toamasina”
- Romanian: “Provincia Toamasina”
- Russian: “Туамасина (провинция)”
- Russian: “Туамасина”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Provincija Toamasina”
- Slovenian: “Provinca Toamasina”
- Spanish: “Provincia de Toamasina”
- Swedish: “Toamasina”
- Ukrainian: “Туамасіна”
- Urdu: “تواماسینا صوبہ”
- Uzbek: “Tuamasina”
- Uzbek: “Туамасина”
- Welsh: “Talaith Toamasina”
- Wu Chinese: “圖阿馬西納省”
- Yue Chinese: “圖阿馬西納省”
- Zulu: “Toamasina Province”
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