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Antsakoabe

human settlement in Madagascar

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 9, 2026
Entity authorityQ16829073 ↗
Source-derived summary

Antsakoabe is a town in Madagascar. It belongs to the district of Antsiranana II, which is a part of Diana Region.

Geography

Antsakoabe is situated at the Route Nationale 6 between Sadjoavato and Anivorano Nord at a distance of 65 km from Antsiranana.

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

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current 43-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 Antsakoabe, human and settlement providing the first useful test.
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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 9, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q16829073. Authority coordinates are -12.669, 49.460. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank.

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This entry incorporates text from “Antsakoabe” 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.