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Ranotsara Nord

place in Ihorombe, Madagascar

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 19, 2025
Entity authorityQ3419021 ↗
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Ranotsara Nord (or: Ranotsara Avaratra) is a rural municipality in Madagascar. It belongs to the district of Iakora, which is a part of Ihorombe Region. The population of the commune was 3,533 in 2018.

Ranotsara Nord has a riverine harbour. Primary and junior level secondary education are available in town. The majority 95% of the population of the municipality are farmers, while an additional 4% receives their livelihood from raising livestock. The most important crop is rice, while other important products are peanuts and beans. Services provide employment for 1% of the population.

It is situated at the Ionaivo river and the unpaved National road 16.

Mining

The region is rich in deposits of sapphires, ruby and chrysoberyl.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Ranotsara Nord” as place in Ihorombe, Madagascar. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2018—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Ranotsara, Nord and place can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as place in Ihorombe, Madagascar. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 19, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q3419021. Authority coordinates are -22.470, 46.350. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2018.

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This entry incorporates text from “Ranotsara Nord” 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.