Farafangana is a

district A district is a type of administrative division that, in some countries, is managed by the local government. Across the world, areas known as "districts" vary greatly in size, spanning regions or county, counties, several municipality, municipa ...

Atsimo-Atsinanana Atsimo-Atsinanana (South East) is a region in Madagascar. Its capital is Farafangana. The region used to be part of the Fianarantsoa Province. The region extends along the southern part of the east coast of Madagascar. It is bordered by Vatovavy-F ...

Madagascar Madagascar (; mg, Madagasikara, ), officially the Republic of Madagascar ( mg, Repoblikan'i Madagasikara, links=no, ; french: République de Madagascar), is an island country in the Indian Ocean, approximately off the coast of East Africa ...

Communes

The district is further divided into 30 communes: * Ambalatany *

Ambalavato Ambalavato is a town and commune in Madagascar. It belongs to the district of Farafangana, which is a part of Atsimo-Atsinanana Region. The population of the commune was estimated to be approximately 21,000 in 2001 commune census. Only primary s ...

* Ambohigogo *

Ambohimandroso Ambohimandroso may refer to the following places in Madagascar: * Ambohimandroso, Ambalavao, a town and commune in Haute Matsiatra * Ambohimandroso, Ambatondrazaka, a town and commune in Alaotra-Mangoro * Ambohimandroso, Antanifotsy, a town and comm ...

Amporoforo Amporoforo is a town and commune in Madagascar. It belongs to the district of Farafangana, which is a part of Atsimo-Atsinanana Region. The population of the commune was estimated to be approximately 11,000 in 2001 commune census. Primary and ju ...

* Ankarana Miraihina * Anosivelo * Anosy Tsararafa * Antsiranambe * Beretra Bevoay * Efatsy Anandroza * Etrotroka Sud * Evato *

Farafangana Farafangana is a city (commune urbaine) on the south-east coast of Madagascar and capital of the Atsimo-Atsinanana region. Location Farafangana is the capital of the region Atsimo-Atsinanana located approximately 400 kilometres south of the c ...

* Fenoarivo * Iabohazo *

Ihorombe Ihorombe is a region in Madagascar. It borders Haute Matsiatra region in north, Atsimo-Atsinanana in east, Anosy in south and Atsimo-Andrefana in west. The capital is Ihosy and the population was 418,520 in 2018. The area of Ihorombe is and ...

* Ivandrika * Mahabo Mananivo * Mahafasa Centre * Mahavelo * Maheriraty * Manambotra Sud * Marovandrika * Sahamadio * Tangainony * Tovona * Vohilengo * Vohimasy * Vohitromby

Economy

There is an airport in Farafangana (

Farafangana Airport Farafangana Airport is an airport in Farafangana, Madagascar Madagascar (; mg, Madagasikara, ), officially the Republic of Madagascar ( mg, Repoblikan'i Madagasikara, links=no, ; french: République de Madagascar), is an island country i ...

). One of the main crops in the region is

pepper Pepper or peppers may refer to: Food and spice * Piperaceae or the pepper family, a large family of flowering plant ** Black pepper * ''Capsicum'' or pepper, a genus of flowering plants in the nightshade family Solanaceae ** Bell pepper ** Chili ...

Population

Natives are mainly from ethnic groups

Antefasy The Antaifasy are an ethnic group of Madagascar inhabiting the southeast coastal region around Farafangana. Historically a fishing and farming people, many Antaifasy were heavily conscripted into forced labor (''fanampoana'') and brought to Antan ...

, Rabakara,

Antesaka The Antesaka, also known as Tesaka, or Tesaki, are an ethnic group of Madagascar traditionally concentrated south of Farafangana along the south-eastern coast. They have since spread more widely throughout the island. The Antesaka form about 5% ...

and

Zafisoro The Zafisoro are a Malagasy ethnic group inhabiting a portion of the southeastern coast of Madagascar. The Zafisoro speak a dialect of the Malagasy language, which is a branch of the Malayo-Polynesian language group derived from the Barito lan ...

Education

Farafangana has a university.

Tourism

The

Manombo Reserve Manombo Special Reserve is a wildlife reserve of Madagascar. It is situated at the village Manombo, 27 km from Farafangana Farafangana is a city (commune urbaine) on the south-east coast of Madagascar and capital of the Atsimo-Atsinanana ...

is located at 25 km to Farafangana.

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