The birthplace of Vodun, and once the seat of the Kingdom of Dahomey and its famous all-female regiment.
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Benin
Republic of Benin ยท Bรฉnin
Africa
ยท Western Africa
0Population
112.62Kkmยฒ of land
$1.22KGDP / person
CotonouCapital
- ISO codes
- BJ ยท BEN
- Density
- 105 /kmยฒ
- Languages
- French
- Currency
- West African CFA franc (XOF)
- Dial code
- +229
- Internet domain
- .bj
- Time zones
- 1
- Coastline
- Has a coast
- Map centre
- 10.3250ยฐ N, 2.3520ยฐ E
- Demonym
- Beninese
- UN region
- Western Africa
- Economy
- Least developed region
- Income group
- Low income
- Total GDP
- $14.39B
- Sovereignty
- Independent ยท UN member
- Borders
- 4
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By the numbers
How Benin stacks up against all 242 mapped countries.
Population
76th
of 242 ยท 0.15% of world population
Land area
103rd
of 242 ยท 0.08% of world land
GDP per person
208th
richest of 242 by output per person
Population density
99th
most crowded of 242
Ten facts about Benin
The first is hand-written; the rest are worked out from this country's own figures.
Population is about 11,801,151 people, the 76th largest of the 242 countries mapped here - roughly 0.15 per cent of everyone alive.
Covers 112,622 kmยฒ, making it the 103rd largest country here - about 3.7 times the size of Belgium.
Population density is about 105 people per kmยฒ.
The capital is Cotonou, at 6.40ยฐ N, 2.52ยฐ E, with a metropolitan population of about 762,000.
Shares land borders with 4 countries: Burkina Faso, Niger, Nigeria and Togo.
Has its own coastline and direct access to the open sea.
Keeps a single time zone, Africa/Porto-Novo.
The currency is the West African CFA franc (XOF, symbol Fr).
The official language is French.
Local time
Live, from PHP's IANA database.
Africa/Porto-Novo
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UTC+01:00
Cities
The largest places we hold coordinates for. Click a row to fly the map there.
1
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Cotonou
Ouรฉmรฉ
6.4020ยฐ N, 2.5180ยฐ E
762K
2
Porto-Novo
Ouรฉmรฉ
6.4833ยฐ N, 2.6166ยฐ E
300K
3
Parakou
Borgou
9.3400ยฐ N, 2.6200ยฐ E
188.85K
Land neighbours
4 countries share a border with Benin.