Benin
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Codes and identifiers
- ISO alpha-2
- BJ
- ISO alpha-3
- BEN
- ISO numeric
- 204
- FIPS 10-4
- BN
- GeoNames ID
- 2395170
Key facts
- Capital
- Porto-Novo
- Area
- 112,620 km²
- Population
- 11,485,048
- Currency
- Franc (XOF)
- Calling code
- +229
- Top-level domain
- .bj
- Official languages
- fr-BJ
Continent
- Name
- Africa
- Code
- AF
- In this dataset
- 58 countries
Location
- Latitude
- 9.5
- Longitude
- 2.25
- Min latitude
- 6.213893947000088
- Min longitude
- 0.7598808180001129
- Max latitude
- 12.39924428300013
- Max longitude
- 3.8374190670000132
Boundary
The API call behind this page
Request
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" \
"https://geosearch.dev/v1/countries/BJ?fields=iso_code,iso3_code,name,capital,population,area_sq_km,currency_code,continent_code"Response
{
"data": {
"area_sq_km": 112620,
"capital": "Porto-Novo",
"continent_code": "AF",
"currency_code": "XOF",
"iso3_code": "BEN",
"iso_code": "BJ",
"name": "Benin",
"population": 11485048
}
}Formatted for reading. The API returns the same JSON on one line.
Other endpoints for this country
/v1/countries/BJ/regions/v1/cities?country=BJ/v1/postal-codes?country=BJ/v1/timezones?country=BJ
Name in other languages
- Arabic
- بنين
- Chinese
- 贝宁
- English
- Benin
- French
- Bénin
- German
- Benin
- Hindi
- बेनिन
- Italian
- Benin
- Japanese
- ベナン
- Korean
- 베냉
- Portuguese
- Benin
- Russian
- Бенин
- Spanish
- Benín
- Total language variants
- 142
The API returns any of them with ?lang=.
Time zones
| IANA ID | UTC offset | DST offset |
|---|---|---|
| Africa/Porto-Novo | UTC+01:00 | UTC+01:00 |
First-level administrative regions
- Atlantique Department
- Borgou Department
- Département de l’Ouémé
- Littoral
- Zou Department
- Collines Department
- Atakora Department
- Alibori
- Kouffo Department
- Plateau Department
- Donga
- Mono
12 of 12 shown, largest first
Largest cities
| City | Population |
|---|---|
| Cotonou | 679,012 |
| Abomey-Calavi | 385,755 |
| Porto-Novo | 264,320 |
| Parakou | 255,478 |
| Godomè | 253,262 |
| Abomey | 117,824 |
| Djougou | 94,773 |
| Bohicon | 93,744 |
| Ekpé | 75,313 |
| Nikki | 66,109 |
Coverage in this dataset
- Cities
- 3,760
- First-level regions
- 12
- Postal codes
- 0
- Name languages
- 142
- Boundary polygon
- Yes
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