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Antehiroka

commune in Analamanga, Madagascar

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 15, 2022
Entity authorityQ21538639 ↗
Source-derived summary

Antehiroka is a town and commune in Madagascar. It belongs to the district of Ambohidratrimo (district), which is a part of Analamanga Region.

Antehiroka is located in a distance of 5 km from Antananarivo and 5 km from Ivato. It is traversed by the RN 4 to Mahajanga.

The population of the commune was estimated to be approximately 80,360.

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The public source identifies “Antehiroka” as commune in Analamanga, Madagascar. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Antehiroka, commune and Analamanga.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current 59-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Antehiroka, commune and Analamanga providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “Antehiroka” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.