Andoany,
formerly and more commonly known as Hell-Ville (after
Anne Chrétien Louis de Hell
Anne Chrétien Louis de Hell (25 August 1783 – 1864) was a French admiral and the governor of the ''Isle de Bourbon'' in the Indian Ocean – now known as the French overseas department of Réunion – from May 1838 to October 18 ...
), is a city in
Diana Region
Diana is a region in Madagascar at the northeast part of the island. It borders the regions of Sava to the southeast and Sofia to the southwest. It covers an area of 19,266 km2, and had a population of 889,736 in 2018. The regional capital i ...
,
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 ...
with a population estimated at 39,500 in 2013.
[Institut National de la Statistique, Antananarivo.] It lies on the island of
Nosy Be
Nosy Be (formerly Nossi-bé and Nosse Be) is an island off the northwest coast of Madagascar. Nosy Be is Madagascar's largest and busiest tourist resort. It has an area of , and its population was 109,465 according to the provisional results of t ...
, of which it is the capital. It is located at .
Reference
Populated places in Diana Region
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