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Madagascar is an island of 590,000 square kilometres, and its regions are what anyone there uses to say where something is: Analamanga for the capital, Atsimo Andrefana for the dry south west, Sava for the vanilla coast. The list has grown since many maps were drawn, so one that is more than a few years old is likely to be missing a region.
The regions (faritra) of Madagascar, the first tier of the country. Each is named for something in it: a river, a lake, a plain or a people. Several names are a direction on a shared stem, such as Atsimo Atsinanana and Atsinanana, or Atsimo Andrefana, so learn them in pairs.
The newest on the map is Ambatosoa, cut from Analanjirofo in the north east. The file draws all 24, where the older sources still draw fewer.
The groups are the six provinces the island was divided into until 2009. They are no longer an administrative level, but they are still how regions are placed in conversation, which is why they make a good way to learn the map one piece at a time. The regions are the Madagascar Districts grouped, so the borders of the two maps match exactly.
Atsimo Andrefana is the largest region, filling the south west from the Mozambique Channel to the plateau.
Itasy is the smallest region, in the highlands west of the capital, around the lake it is named for.
Ambatosoa was made in 2021 from the northern part of Analanjirofo, around Maroantsetra and the Masoala peninsula.
24 on this map, which includes Ambatosoa, the newest.
The six provinces were abolished as an administrative level in 2009. They are used here as groups because they are still how people place a region.
The districts, which number 120 on this map. They are their own quiz.
The tier below this one is Madagascar Districts. For another country at this level, see Kenya Counties.
