Republic of Benin

APCLI Independent political entity · BJ

GeonameId: 2395170
Coordinates: 9.50000, 2.25000 9°30′00.00″ N, 2°15′00.00″ E
Population: 11,485,048
Elevation: ca. 334 m
SRTM3 334 m · ASTER 328 m
Timezone: Africa/Porto-Novo
Feature code: APCLI
Wikipedia: Article

Permalink: https://www.geonames.org/2395170/republic-of-benin.html

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Places within this division

ADM1Aliboripop. 576,251
ADM1Atakora Departmentpop. 586,734
ADM1Atlantique Departmentpop. 896,901
ADM1Borgou Departmentpop. 802,503
ADM1Collines Departmentpop. 602,066
ADM1Dongapop. 384,151
ADM1Kouffo Departmentpop. 560,182
ADM1Littoralpop. 690,584
ADM1Monopop. 380,078
ADM1Département de l’Ouémépop. 773,421
ADM1Plateau Departmentpop. 435,623
ADM1Zou Departmentpop. 628,684

Neighbouring divisions

Aug 16, 2021, 14:19:15unicode
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Aug 16, 2021, 12:25:57unicode
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Apr 5, 2021, 23:59:24fcgis
delete hierarchy
Feb 2, 2021, 16:59:17fcgis
add hierarchy
Mar 29, 2020, 14:05:28worldbank
pop 9’056’010 > 11’485’048 (26% diff)
Oct 10, 2018, 14:36:13marc
delete hierarchy
Feb 1, 2016, 18:26:08kdurante
add name :link,http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79110959
Nov 27, 2012, 19:01:51eversoris
update name :gl,Benín
Jan 6, 2012, 13:22:45unicode
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Sep 16, 2010, 11:49:34us-census-idb
pop 8'294'000 > 9'056'010 (9% diff)
May 27, 2009, 14:19:56emihermes
update name :es,Benín (x) (s)
Apr 30, 2008, 00:40:09idrisi
delete name :ca,El Benín
Apr 30, 2008, 00:39:57idrisi
update name :ca,Benin (x) (s)
Apr 25, 2008, 02:27:52idrisi
delete name :ca,República de Benin
Mar 21, 2008, 16:08:33unicode
unicode country names
Mar 20, 2008, 11:55:58us-census-idb
pop 7'460'025 > 8'294'000 (11% diff)
Oct 8, 2007, 10:20:05geonames
add pop 7'460'025
Apr 9, 2007, 22:52:25isa
update name :fr,Bénin (x)
Apr 9, 2007, 22:50:49isa
add name :gl,Benín (x)
Feb 17, 2007, 14:02:06wikipedia
wikipedia alternate names
Jun 30, 2006, 20:46:56abat sise
add name :ca,República de Benin
Mar 15, 2006, 18:17:17unicode
unicode country names

What do these codes mean?

The language code refers to the ISO-639-2 and ISO-639-3 codes.

en (english)
fr (french)

The language code may be followed by a hyphen and a country code or a country variant:

zh-CN
zh-Hant

Accepted pseudo language codes:

post (postal codes)
icao, iata, faac, tcid (airport codes)
abbr (abbreviation)
link (link to website)
phon (phonetics)
piny (pinyin)
wkdt (wikidataid)
unlc (UNLOCODE)
nuts (EU NUTS code)
lauc (EU LAU code)

p. = preferred
s. = short
h. = historical
c. = colloquial

Names in other languages

			Tags
		Benin
		Bénin
		Dahome
		People’s Republic of Benin
		Republic of Dahomey
		République du Dahomey
		République Populaire du Bénin
`af`	Afrikaans	Benin	official
`ak`	Akan	Bɛnin	official
`sq`	Albanian	Benin	official
`sq`	Albanian	Benini
`am`	Amharic	ቤኒን	official
`ar`	Arabic	بنين	official
`an`	Aragonese	Benín
`hy`	Armenian	Բենին	official
`frp`	Arpitan	Bènin
`as`	Assamese	বেনিন	official
`ast`	Asturian	Benín
`az`	Azerbaijani	Benin	official
`bm`	Bambara	Benɛn	official
`bn`	Bangla	বেনিন	official
`eu`	Basque	Benin	official
`be`	Belarusian	Бенін	official
`bs`	Bosnian	Benin	official
`br`	Breton	Benin	official
`bg`	Bulgarian	Бенин	official
`my`	Burmese	ဘီနင်	official
`ca`	Catalan	Benin	officialshort
`ca`	Catalan	Benín	official
`ce`	Chechen	Бенин	official
`zh`	Chinese	贝宁	official
`cv`	Chuvash	Бенин
`kw`	Cornish	Benin
`hr`	Croatian	Benin	official
`cs`	Czech	Benin	official
`da`	Danish	Benin	official
`nl`	Dutch	Benin	official
`dz`	Dzongkha	བྷེ་ནིན	official
`en`	English	Benin	official
`en`	English	Republic of Benin
`eo`	Esperanto	Benino	official
`et`	Estonian	Benin	official
`ee`	Ewe	Benin nutome	official
`fo`	Faroese	Benin	official
`fi`	Finnish	Benin	official
`fr`	French	Benin
`fr`	French	Bénin	official
`fr`	French	République du Bénin
`ff`	Fula	Benee	official
`gl`	Galician	Benin	official
`gl`	Galician	Benín	official
`gl`	Galician	República de Benín
`lg`	Ganda	Benini	official
`ka`	Georgian	ბენინი	official
`de`	German	Benin	official
`el`	Greek	Μπενίν	official
`el`	Greek	Μπένιν
`gu`	Gujarati	બેનિન	official
`ht`	Haitian Creole	Benen
`ha`	Hausa	Binin	official
`he`	Hebrew	בנין	official
`hi`	Hindi	बेनिन	official
`hu`	Hungarian	Benin	official
`is`	Icelandic	Benín	official
`io`	Ido	Benin
`ig`	Igbo	Binin	official
`id`	Indonesian	Benin	official
`ia`	Interlingua	Benin	official
`ga`	Irish	Beinin	official
`it`	Italian	Benin	official
`ja`	Japanese	ベナン	official
`ja`	Japanese	ベニン
`ja`	Japanese	ベニン共和国	official
`jv`	Javanese	Bénin	official
`kl`	Kalaallisut	Benin	official
`kn`	Kannada	ಬೆನಿನ್	official
`ks`	Kashmiri	بِنِن	official
`kk`	Kazakh	Бенин	official
`km`	Khmer	បេណាំង	official
`ki`	Kikuyu	Benini	official
`ko`	Korean	베냉	official
`ko`	Korean	베넹
`ku`	Kurdish	Bênîn	official
`ku`	Kurdish	بنین	official
`ky`	Kyrgyz	Бенин	official
`lo`	Lao	ເບນິນ	official
`la`	Latin	Beninum
`lv`	Latvian	Benina	official
`li`	Limburgish	Benin
`ln`	Lingala	Benɛ	official
`link`	link to website	http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79110959
`link`	link to website	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benin
`link`	link to website	https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%BD
`lt`	Lithuanian	Beninas	official
`nds`	Low German	Benin
`lu`	Luba-Katanga	Bene	official
`lb`	Luxembourgish	Benin	official
`mk`	Macedonian	Бенин	official
`mg`	Malagasy	Benin	official
`ms`	Malay	Benin	official
`ml`	Malayalam	ബെനിന്‍	official
`ml`	Malayalam	ബെനിൻ	official
`mt`	Maltese	Benin
`mt`	Maltese	il-Benin	official
`mr`	Marathi	बेनिन	official
`mn`	Mongolian	Бенин	official
`na`	Nauru	Benin
`ne`	Nepali	बेनिन	official
`nd`	North Ndebele	Bhenini	official
`se`	Northern Sami	Benin	official
`no`	Norwegian	Benin	official
`nb`	Norwegian Bokmål	Benin	official
`nn`	Norwegian Nynorsk	Benin
`oc`	Occitan	Benin	official
`or`	Odia	ବେନିନ୍	official
`pam`	Pampanga	Benin
`ps`	Pashto	بینن	official
`fa`	Persian	بنین	official
`pl`	Polish	Benin	official
`pt`	Portuguese	Benim
`pt`	Portuguese	Benin	official
`pa`	Punjabi	ਬੇਨਿਨ	official
`qu`	Quechua	Benín	official
`ro`	Romanian	Benin	official
`rm`	Romansh	Benin	official
`rn`	Rundi	Bene	official
`ru`	Russian	Бенин	official
`sg`	Sango	Benëen	official
`gd`	Scottish Gaelic	Beinin	official
`sr`	Serbian	Бенин	official
`hbs`	Serbo-Croatian	Benin
`sn`	Shona	Benini	official
`scn`	Sicilian	Benin
`sd`	Sindhi	بينن	official
`si`	Sinhala	බෙනින්	official
`sk`	Slovak	Benin	official
`sl`	Slovenian	Benin	official
`so`	Somali	Biniin	official
`es`	Spanish	Benín	official
`sw`	Swahili	Benin	official
`sw`	Swahili	Benini	official
`sv`	Swedish	Benin	official
`tl`	Tagalog	Benin
`tg`	Tajik	Бенин	official
`ta`	Tamil	பெனின்	official
`tt`	Tatar	Бенин	official
`te`	Telugu	బెనిన్	official
`th`	Thai	เบนิน	official
`th`	Thai	ประเทศเบนิน
`bo`	Tibetan	བཱེ་ནིན།	official
`ti`	Tigrinya	ቤኒን	official
`to`	Tongan	Penini	official
`tr`	Turkish	Benin	official
`tk`	Turkmen	Benin	official
`udm`	Udmurt	Бенин
`uk`	Ukrainian	Бенін	official
`ur`	Urdu	بینن	official
`ug`	Uyghur	بېنىن	official
`uz`	Uzbek	Benin	official
`vi`	Vietnamese	Bê-nanh
`vi`	Vietnamese	Bê-nanh (Benin)	official
`vi`	Vietnamese	Benin	official
`vi`	Vietnamese	Bénin
`vo`	Volapük	Beninän
`cy`	Welsh	Benin	official
`fy`	Western Frisian	Benin	official
`wo`	Wolof	Benee	official
`yi`	Yiddish	בענין	official
`yo`	Yoruba	Bẹ̀nẹ̀	official
`yo`	Yoruba	Orílẹ́ède Bẹ̀nẹ̀	official
`zh-Hant`	zh-hant	貝南	official
`zu`	Zulu	i-Benin	official