1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Madagascar
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01What the data says — and does not say
This page separates the checked GeoNames row for Antananarivo—1,349,501, Indian/Antananarivo, and source coordinates—from live travel claims. Those fields identify and compare the record; they do not prove current transport, accessibility, census totals, or a City Atlas Club visit.
Wikidata's localized description: capital and largest city of Madagascar.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Antananarivo is GeoNames ID 1070940. Its recorded administrative path is Analamanga → Madagascar, and GeoNames classifies the place as a capital of a political entity. Antananarivo occurs once as a primary city label in this atlas sample; the numeric ID remains the durable source key if names change. The city row itself was updated 2025-05-18; that date belongs to the source record, not to every transport or visitor detail in the real destination.
Within the fixed 1,206-record atlas, Antananarivo ranks 371 by recorded population. Inside the 1 selected Madagascar entries it ranks 1; inside the 243 entries in its broad region it ranks 73. Its 1,349,501 population value is 1.00 times the 1,349,501 median for the country cohort and 1.50 times the 902,588 regional median. Antananarivo is rank 1 among the 1 selected Madagascar entries, so a percentage band would overstate this small cohort. Antananarivo's recorded value stays within one quarter of the country-cohort median used here. These comparisons describe this selected dataset only; they are not current census rankings or official urban-area boundaries.
Antananarivo's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Nampula at 975.159 km with 770,379 recorded people; Beira at 1,335.569 km with 687,764 recorded people; Blantyre at 1,373.953 km with 902,588 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 398.794 km. Compared with Nampula, Antananarivo's recorded population is 1.75 times as large. Against Antananarivo, Nampula follows Nampula → Mozambique in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the selected Mozambique cohort rather than Madagascar, uses Africa/Maputo instead of Indian/Antananarivo, and carries first-order administrative seat rather than capital of a political entity. Its recorded population is below Antananarivo's. Against Antananarivo, Beira follows Sofala → Mozambique in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the selected Mozambique cohort rather than Madagascar, uses Africa/Maputo instead of Indian/Antananarivo, and carries first-order administrative seat rather than capital of a political entity. Its recorded population is below Antananarivo's. Against Antananarivo, Blantyre follows Blantyre District → Southern Region → Malawi in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the selected Malawi cohort rather than Madagascar, uses Africa/Blantyre instead of Indian/Antananarivo, and carries first-order administrative seat rather than capital of a political entity. Its recorded population is below Antananarivo's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 1,203 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Antananarivo's nearest-coordinate gap belongs to the wider half of atlas distances. This pattern can reveal whether other catalog references are geographically close, but it cannot establish whether a border crossing is possible or practical, or whether rail, road, fare, or journey-time connections exist. Read as one record signature, GeoNames 1070940, the coordinate pair 18.9137 / 47.5361, country rank 1 of 1, and neighbor GeoNames 1033356 at 975.159 km bind Antananarivo to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Antananarivo's reference point is 18.9137° south and 47.5361° east. The IANA identifier Indian/Antananarivo is shared by 1 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLC is shared by 129 rows. Antananarivo's row carries a first-order administrative label but no second-order label. Antananarivo's point falls in the lower-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Antananarivo's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Antananarivo, so the profile preserves that missing value instead of guessing terrain. Together these fields form a reproducible identity check for this page, not a claim about walkability, climate or accessibility.
03Nearby atlas references
Antananarivo's closest other entries in this atlas are Nampula (975.159 km), Beira (1,335.569 km), Blantyre (1,373.953 km).
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GeoNames updated the row 2025-05-18; the atlas checked the dataset 2026-08-04. Available Wikidata fields were verified in the same run.
GeoNames data: CC BY 4.0. Wikidata labels and descriptions: CC0 1.0.