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Antananarivo

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Antananarivo

Capital and administrative centre of Madagascar, on the interior plateau at a height of 1,250 m/4,100 ft, with a rail link to Toamasina (Tamatave), the chief port of the island; population (2001 est) 1,403,400. Industries include food processing, leather goods, clothing, wood pulp and paper manufacturing, and brewing.

Antananarivo is the home of the National Library, an observatory and the University of Madagascar (1961). The city is served by an international airport at Ivato.



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Address for correspondence: Jean-Marc Reynes, Unite de Virologie, Institut Pasteur de Madagascar, BP 1274, Antananarivo 101, Madagascar; email: jmreynes@pasteur.
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