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Fianarantsoa

Fianarantsoa (fyänäräntsOO'u, –tsō'u) [key], town (1993 pop. 99,005), S central Madagascar, in the central highlands. It is the chief commercial center of a fertile agricultural region producing rice, coffee, potatoes, tobacco, and wine. Food processing is the town's chief industry. A railroad connects Fianarantsoa with Manakara, a small port on the Indian Ocean.

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Pezzottaite: Cs([Be.sub.2]Li)[Al.sub.2][Si.sub.6][O.sub.18]; A spectacular new beryl-group mineral from the Sakavalana pegmatite, Fianarantsoa province, Madagascar. (The Mineralogical Record)

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