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The autonomous provinces 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.
Countries with at least one autonomous area. This list of autonomous areas arranged by country gives an overview of autonomous areas of the world. An autonomous area is defined as an area of a country that has a degree of autonomy, or has freedom from an external authority.
In political history, the term has been used as designation for various types of autonomous entities, on medium levels of administrative hierarchy. In relative terms, an autonomous province usually has less autonomy than an autonomous state, but more autonomy than an autonomous region. Administrative autonomy of a province can be expressed in ...
The autonomous provinces, having the same names and territories as the already existing provinces, were created in 2000. During the power struggle after the presidential elections in 2001, five of those provinces, whose governors supported Ratsiraka, declared themselves independent from the republic.
17 autonomous communities (comunidades autónomas) 50 provinces (provincias) 477 comarcas: 8,129 municipalities (municipios) 2 autonomous municipalities, Ceuta and Melilla, North African coast 3 places of sovereignty (plazas de soberanía) Sri Lanka: Regional 9 provinces: 25 districts: 331 divisions: 14,015 Grama Niladhari: Sudan: Federal 18 states
Number on map Region's name Area (km 2) Population (2018 Census) [1] Population density per km 2 Capital Former province 1: Diana: 19,266: 889,736: 36.3: Antsiranana
Map of Madagascar and the Mascarene Islands (1502) Europe knew of Madagascar through Arab sources; thus The Travels of Marco Polo claimed that "the inhabitants are Saracens, or followers of the law of Mohammed", without mentioning other inhabitants. Other than its size and location, everything about the island in the book describes southeastern ...
Madagascar, [a] officially the Republic of Madagascar, [b] is an island country that includes the island of Madagascar and numerous smaller peripheral islands. Lying off the southeastern coast of Africa, it is the world's fourth largest island (after Greenland, New Guinea, and Borneo), the second-largest island country (after Indonesia), and the 46th largest country overall. [14]