Benin

Benin

Benin , officially the Republic of Benin, is a country in West Africa. It borders Togo to the west, Nigeria to the east and Burkina Faso and Niger to the north. Its small southern coastline on the Bight of Benin is where a majority of the population is located...

, officially the Republic of Benin, is a country in Western Africa

West Africa

West Africa or Western Africa is the westernmost region of the African continent. Geopolitically, the UN definition of Western Africa includes the following 16 countries and an area of approximately 5 million square km:-Flags of West Africa:...

. It borders Togo

Togo

Togo, officially the Togolese Republic , is a country in West Africa bordered by Ghana to the west, Benin to the east and Burkina Faso to the north. It extends south to the Gulf of Guinea, on which the capital Lomé is located. Togo covers an area of approximately with a population of approximately...

 to the west, Nigeria

Nigeria

Nigeria , officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a federal constitutional republic comprising 36 states and its Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. The country is located in West Africa and shares land borders with the Republic of Benin in the west, Chad and Cameroon in the east, and Niger in...

 to the east and Burkina Faso

Burkina Faso

Burkina Faso – also known by its short-form name Burkina – is a landlocked country in west Africa. It is surrounded by six countries: Mali to the north, Niger to the east, Benin to the southeast, Togo and Ghana to the south, and Côte d'Ivoire to the southwest.Its size is with an estimated...

 and Niger

Niger

Niger , officially named the Republic of Niger, is a landlocked country in Western Africa, named after the Niger River. It borders Nigeria and Benin to the south, Burkina Faso and Mali to the west, Algeria and Libya to the north and Chad to the east...

 to the north; its short coastline to the south leads to the Bight of Benin

Bight of Benin

The Bight of Benin is a bight on the western African coast that extends eastward for about 400 miles from Cape St. Paul to the Nun outlet of the Niger River. To the east it is continued by the Bight of Bonny . The bight is part of the Gulf of Guinea...

. Its size is just over with a population of almost . Its capital is the Yoruba

Yoruba people

The Yoruba people are one of the largest ethnic groups in West Africa. The majority of the Yoruba speak the Yoruba language...

 founded city of Porto Novo, but the seat of government is the Fon

Fon people

The Fon people, or Fon nu, are a major West African ethnic and linguistic group in the country of Benin, and southwest Nigeria, made up of more than 3,500,000 people. The Fon language is the main language spoken in Southern Benin, and is a member of the Gbe language group...

 city of Cotonou

Cotonou

-Demographics:*1979: 320,348 *1992: 536,827 *2002: 665,100 *2005: 690,584 The main languages spoken in Cotonou include the Fon language, Aja language, Yoruba language and French.-Transport:...

. About half the population live below the international poverty line of US$

United States dollar

The United States dollar , also referred to as the American dollar, is the official currency of the United States of America. It is divided into 100 smaller units called cents or pennies....

1.25 per day.

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• 1963 Dahomeyan coup d'état
  1963 Dahomeyan coup d'état
  The 1963 Dahomey coup d'état was staged on October 28, 1963 by Christophe Soglo, who took control of the country to prevent a civil war. He overthrew Hubert Maga, whose presidency faced extreme economic stagnation and a host of other problems.-Background:...
  
  
• Dahomey at the 1972 Summer Olympics
  Dahomey at the 1972 Summer Olympics
  Dahomey competed in the Summer Olympic Games for the first time at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, West Germany.-Boxing:Men's Light Flyweight *Meriga Salou Seriki...
  
  
• Benin at the 1980 Summer Olympics
  Benin at the 1980 Summer Olympics
  Benin competed at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, USSR. The nation returned to the Olympic Games after missing the 1976 Summer Olympics...
  
  
• Benin at the 1984 Summer Olympics
  Benin at the 1984 Summer Olympics
  Benin competed at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, United States.-Boxing:Men's Bantamweight *Firmin Abissi*# First Round — Bye*# Second Round — Lost to Barbar Ali Khan , 0-5-References:*...
  
  
• Benin at the 1988 Summer Olympics
  Benin at the 1988 Summer Olympics
  Benin competed at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, Korea.-References:*...
  
  
• Benin at the 1992 Summer Olympics
  Benin at the 1992 Summer Olympics
  -Athletics:Men's 100m metres*Pascal Dangbo* Heat — 11.03 -References:*...
  
  
• Benin at the 1996 Summer Olympics
  Benin at the 1996 Summer Olympics
  Benin competed at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, United States.-Men:Track and road events-Women:Track and road events-References:*...
  
  
• Benin at the 2000 Summer Olympics
  Benin at the 2000 Summer Olympics
  -Athletics:Men's 200m* Pascal Dangbo*# Round 1 — 21.54 Women's 100m* Laure Kuetey*# Round 1 — 12.40 -References:*...
  
  
• Benin at the 2004 Summer Olympics
  Benin at the 2004 Summer Olympics
  Benin competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece.-Athletics:Men's 100 metres* Souhalia Alamou — Round 1: 10.48 sWomen's 200 metres* Fabienne Feraez — Round 1: 23.12 s , Round 2: 23.24 s-Swimming:...
  
  
• 2008 Benin floods
  2008 Benin floods
  The 2008 Benin floods struck the nation of Benin between July and October 2008, and affected the other West African nations of Burkina Faso, Mali, Mauritania, Niger and Togo. According to the Red Cross of Benin, the flooding in Benin initially affected almost 7,000 people, including the...
  
  
• Benin at the 2008 Summer Olympics
  Benin at the 2008 Summer Olympics
  Benin sent a team to compete at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China. The country planned to send a party of ten along with five athletes to compete in three sports: athletics, swimming and taekwondo.- Athletics:- Swimming:- Taekwondo :...
  
  
• Benin at the 2008 Summer Paralympics
  Benin at the 2008 Summer Paralympics
  Benin sent a delegation to compete at the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing, China. According to official records, the only athlete was powerlifter Blandine Sahenou.- Powerlifting:Women-References:...
  
  

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• Abeokouta
  Abeokouta
  Abeokouta is a village in western Benin. It is located in Savalou commune in the Collines Department.Nearby towns and villages include Doume , Abala , Akoumokoumo , Loukou , Amou , Agan , Ekpa and Ekpaogan .-External links:*...
  
  
• Abidzi
  Abidzi
  Abidzi is a village in western Benin. It is located in Bantè commune in the former Zou Province of which since 1999 is part of the Collines Department....
  
  
• Abomey-Calavi
  Abomey-Calavi
  Abomey-Calavi is a city, arrondissement, and commune located in the Atlantique Department of Benin. It is a suburb of Cotonou and is located approximately 18 km from the city centre of Cotonou....
  
  
• Abomey
  Abomey
  When UNESCO designated the royal palaces of Abomey as a World Heritage Site in 1985 it statedFrom 1993, 50 of the 56 bas-reliefs that formerly decorated the walls of King Glèlè have been located and replaced on the rebuilt structure...
  
  
• Samou Seidou Adambi
  Samou Seidou Adambi
  Samou Seidou Adambi is a Beninese politician. He is currently serving as mayor of the commune and city of Parakou.-References:...
  
  
• Adandozan
  Adandozan
  Adandozan was a King of Dahomey , technically the ninth, though he is not counted as one of the twelve kings. His name has largely been erased from the history of Abomey , and to this day is generally not spoken out loud in the city...
  
  
• Adeli, Benin
  Adeli, Benin
  Adeli is a village in the commune of Bassila in the Donga Department of western Benin.-External links:*...
  
  
• Khaled Adenon
  Khaled Adenon
  Abdoul Khaled Akiola Adénon is a Beninese football defender who currently plays for SC Bastia, on loan for the 2009–2010 season from Le Mans UC72.- Career :...
  
  
• Adjalin
  Adjalin
  The adjalin is a type of zither native to Benin.It consists of a rectangular form constuctred of bamboo branches, tied together with raffia.It is used in the traditional music of Benin, particularly in public festivals and rituals....
  
  
• Anicet Adjamossi
• Adja-Ouèrè
  Adja-Ouèrè
  Adja-Ouèrè is a town, arrondissement, and commune in the Plateau Department of south-eastern Benin. The commune covers an area of 550 square kilometres and as of 2002 had a population of 81,497 people.-References:...
  
  
• Adjarra
  Adjarra
  Adjarra is a town and commune in Ouémé Department, Benin.The commune covers an area of 112 square kilometres and as of 2002 had a population of 60,112 people....
  
  
• Tiamiou Adjibadé
  Tiamiou Adjibadé
  Tiamiou Adjibadé was a Beninese politician. He was the foreign minister of Benin from 1982 to 1984.-References:...
  
  
• Adjohoun
  Adjohoun
  Adjohoun or Adjohon is a town, arrondissement, and commune in Ouémé Department, Benin. The commune is divided into 8 arrondisements and 57 villages.The commune of Adjohoun is located approximately 32 km from Porto-Novo and 62 km from Cotonou...
  
  
• Sévérin Adjovi
  Sévérin Adjovi
  Sévérin Adjovi is a Beninese politician and leader of the Liberal Democrats' Rally for National Reconstruction-Vivoten , as well as a businessman....
  
  
• Jean-Marc Adjovi-Bocco
  Jean-Marc Adjovi-Bocco
  Jean-Marc Adjovi-Bocco is a former Beninese football player. Bocco captained the Benin national football team, until he retired from international football in the summer of 1997...
  
  
• Frédéric Affo
  Frédéric Affo
  Frédéric Affo is a Beninese politician. He was the foreign minister of Benin from 1984 to 1987.-References:...
  
  
• Afodiobo
  Afodiobo
  Afodiobo is a village in the commune of Bassila in the Donga Department of western Benin.-External links:*...
  
  
• Agadja
  Agadja
  Dossou Agadja was the fifth King of Dahomey. He succeeded Houessou Akaba, and ruled from 1708 to 1740. Akaba's only son, Agbo Sassa, was only ten years old when Akaba died, so as Akaba's brother, Agadja took the throne to become the fifth king...
  
  
• Agbangnizoun
  Agbangnizoun
  Agbangnizoun is a town, arrondissement, and commune in the Zou Department of south-western Benin. The town lies 20 kilometres south-east of Abomey. The commune covers an area of 244 square kilometres and as of 2002 had a population of 55,001 people....
  
  
• Fidèle Agbatchi
  Fidèle Agbatchi
  Fidèle Agbatchi is a retired Beninese Roman Catholic archbishop.He was ordained as a priest on January 7, 1978 and on June 10, 2000 was appointed Archbishop of Parakou, and was ordained on April 14, 2004 beginning his term. He served the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Parakou from his seat in St....
  
  
• Berte-Evelyne Agbo
• Marcel Honorat Léon Agboton
  Marcel Honorat Léon Agboton
  Archbishop Marcel Honorat Léon Agboton is a retired Beninese Roman Catholic archbishop; he is the Archbishop Emeritus of Cotonou....
  
  
• Agé
  Agé
  Agé is a god of the mythology of the Fon people of Africa. He is the son of Mawu-Lisa. Agé is the patron god of hunters, the wilderness, and the animals within it.-References:*...
  
  
• Moustapha Agnidé
  Moustapha Agnidé
  Idrissou Moustapha Agnidé is a Beninese football player who plays for Stade Quimpérois.Agnidé previously played several seasons for AS Vitré in the Championnat de France amateur....
  
  
• Agoli-agbo
  Agoli-agbo
  Agoli-agbo is considered to have been the twelfth, and last, King of Dahomey. He took the throne after the previous king, Behanzin, went into exile after a failed war with France. He was in power from 1894 to 1900....
  
  
• Agongointo-Zoungoudo Underground Town
  Agongointo-Zoungoudo Underground Town
  The underground town of Agongointo-Zoungoudo is located approximately 9 km from Abomey, in central Benin. The city was discovered in 1998 by the Danish company DANIDA...
  
  
• Agonglo
  Agonglo
  Agonglo was the eighth King of Dahomey. He succeeded his father, Kpengla, and ruled from 1789 to 1797.Agonglo made several reforms which pleased his subjects: taxes were lowered, and a greater distribution of gifts was made during the annual customs...
  
  
• Agougou
  Agougou
  Agougou is a village in the commune of Bassila in the Donga Department of western Benin.-External links:*...
  
  
• Maxime Agueh
  Maxime Agueh
  Maxime Agueh is a French-Beninese football player who, is playing for FC Gueugnon.- Career :Agueh began his career with Lille and signed on July 1, 1998 for Luton Town F.C.. He played one year with Luton Town F.C. and signed than in July 1999 to Jupiler League club FC Denderleeuw EH...
  
  
• Aguégués
  Aguégués
  Aguégués is a town and commune in the Ouémé Department of south-eastern Benin. The commune covers an area of 52 square kilometres and as of 2002 had a population of 26,650 people.-References:...
  
  
• Justin Ahomadégbé-Tomêtin
  Justin Ahomadegbé-Tomêtin
  Justin Ahomadegbé-Tomêtin was a Beninese politician most active when his country was known as Dahomey. He arose on a political scene where one's power was dictated by what region in Dahomey they lived...
  
  
• Michel Ahouanmenou
  Michel Ahouanmenou
  Michel Ahouanmenou was a Beninese politician. He was the foreign minister of Benin from 1971 to 1972.-References:...
  
  
• Jocelyn Ahouéya
  Jocelyn Ahouéya
  Jocelyn Ahouéya is a Beninese footballer. He currently plays for AS Beauvais Oise.-Career:Ahouéya began his career on youthside for Mogas 90 FC and signed in summer 2004 for FC Sion.-International career:...
  
  
• Michel Aikpé
  Michel Aikpé
  Michel Aikpé was the Minister of Interior of Benin Republic and second in command in the first government of Mathieu Kérékou, from 1972 to 1975. He was assassinated in 1975 by Martin Dohou Azonhiho under instruction from President Mathieu Kérékou for having political ambitions but the official...
  
  
• Ajaland
  Ajaland
  Ajaland refers to the area inhabited by the Aja people in Benin and Togo, West Africa. In the late 16th and early 17th century this area was a major center of the Atlantic Slave Trade. It was largely split between the Kingdom of Whydah and the domain of the ruler of Allada...
  
  
• Akaba (Dahomey kings)
• Akoumokoumo
  Akoumokoumo
  Akoumokoumo is a village in western Benin. It is located in Savalou commune in the Collines Department.Nearby towns and villages include Alekpo , Pepelou , Amou , Abala , Lekpa and Abeokouta .-External links:*...
  
  
• Rodrigue Akpakoun
  Rodrigue Akpakoun
  Rodrigue Akpakoun is a former Beninese football player.-Career:He played several seasons in the lower tiers of French football, including spells at Stade Reims and La Roche VF.-International career:...
  
  
• Akpro-Missérété
  Akpro-Missérété
  Akpro-Missérété is a city, arrondissement, and commune in Ouémé Department, Benin. The commune covers an area of 79 square kilometres and as of 2002 had a population of 72,652 people.-References:...
  
  
• Alafiarou
  Alafiarou
  Alafiarou is a town and arrondissement located in the commune of Tchaourou in the Borgou Department of Benin....
  
  
• Aledjo-Koura
  Aledjo-Koura
  Aledjo-Koura is a village and arrondissement in the commune of Bassila in the Donga Department of western Benin. It is located near the border with Togo.-External links:*...
  
  
• Alekpo
  Alekpo
  Alekpo is a village in western Benin. It is located in Savalou commune in the Collines Department.Nearby towns and villages include Kotongbo , Apaki , Otola , Bouboule , Amou , Kikon , Okpedie , Lekpa and Akoumokoumo .-External links:*...
  
  
• Aletoutou
  Aletoutou
  Aletoutou is a village in the commune of Bassila in the Donga Department of western Benin.-External links:*...
  
  
• Alexandre Sènou Adandé Ethnographic Museum
  Alexandre Sènou Adandé Ethnographic Museum
  The Alexandre Sènou Adandé Ethnographic Museum is a museum in Porto-Novo, Benin. It was established in 1957 by the Dahomey Institute.-External links:*...
  
  
• Allada
  Allada
  Allada is a town, arrondissement, and commune located in the Atlantique Department of Benin.Allada was the capital of the most powerful king in Ajaland before it fell to the armies of Dahomey....
  
  
• Michel Alladaye
  Michel Alladaye
  Michel Alladaye is a former Beninese politician. He was the foreign minister of Benin from 1972 to 1980.-References:...
  
  
• Alphonse Alley
• Alori
  Alori
  Alori is a village in the commune of Bassila in the Donga Department of western Benin. It is located near the border with Togo.-External links:*...
  
  
• Moudachirou Amadou
  Moudachirou Amadou
  Moudachirou Amadou is a Beninese football player, who plays for TSV Bernhausen.-Coaching career:Since signing in summer 2008 with TSV Bernhausen he worked as teamchef, formerly coaching the Bambinis of TuS Holstein Quickborn.-Personal life:Amadou is in partnership with the German Daniela Zollweg...
  
  
• Amawihon
  Amawihon
  Amawihon is a village in the commune of Parakou in the Borgou Department of central-eastern Benin. It is located north of the city centre.-External links:*...
  
  
• Amedzofe
  Amedzofe (history)
  In Ewe oral history, Amedzofe , literally 'origin/home of humanity', is one of the names for Ketu. Ketu, in present-day Benin, was a central place in the history of the Gbe peoples. The Gbe peoples originally were part of the Yoruba Oyo people of Nigeria, but they were pressed westward by a series...
  
  
• Amou, Benin
  Amou, Benin
  Amou is a village in western Benin. It is located in Savalou commune in the Collines Department. Prior to 1999 Amou was part of the former Zou Province....
  
  
• Bruno Amoussou
  Bruno Amoussou
  Bruno Ange-Marie Amoussou is a Beninese politician and President of the Social Democratic Party . He was the President of the National Assembly from April 1995 to April 1999 and Minister of State in charge of Planning and Prospective Development under President Mathieu Kérékou from 1999 to 2005;...
  
  
• Valere Amoussou
  Valere Amoussou
  Valère Amoussou is a Beninese football player who, is currently playing for AS Porto-Novo.-Career:Amoussou began his career wirth Mogas 90 FC and joined in January 2008 to AS Porto-Novo.-International:...
  
  
• Ancien Pont Bridge
  Ancien Pont Bridge
  The Ancien Pont Bridge is a bridge in Cotonou, Benin....
  
  
• Robert Anderson (diplomat)
  Robert Anderson (diplomat)
  Robert Anderson was an American Foreign Service officer who served as the United States Ambassador to Dahomey, Morocco, and the Dominican Republic.Anderson was born in Boston, Massachusetts...
  
  
• Jean Louis Pascal Angan
• Annual customs of Dahomey
• Apaki
  Apaki
  Apaki is a village in western Benin near the Togolese border. It is located in Savalou commune in the Collines Department.Nearby towns and villages include Agbanho , Kotongbo , Lekpa , Alekpo , Pepelou , Ekpa and Takete .....
  
  
• Sourou-Migan Apithy
  Sourou-Migan Apithy
  Sourou-Migan Marcellin Joseph Apithy was a Beninese political figure most active when his country was known as Dahomey. He arose on a political scene where one's power was dictated by what region in Dahomey they lived....
  
  
• Aplahoué
  Aplahoué
  Aplahoué is a town and arrondissement located in the Kouffo Department of Benin. The commune covers an area of 572 square kilometres and as of 2002 had a population of 116,988 people.-References:...
  
  
• Irélé Apo
  Irélé Apo
  Irélé Apo is a French footballer, who currently plays in France for FC Nantes.- Career :He is 1m69 tall, weighs 66 kg and plays side defender or medium ground with...
  
  
• Arrada
  Arrada
  Arrada was an important seaside fort in the former kingdom of Dahomey. Its name is probably a corruption of "Allada". Slaves used to be captured from enemy tribes and passed on to European slavers bound for the Americas, the route which by repute the father of Toussaint L'Ouverture, the famous...
  
  
• Assion
  Assion
  Assion is a village in the commune of Bassila in the Donga Department of western Benin. It is located near the border with Togo.-External links:*...
  
  
• Nestor Assogba
  Nestor Assogba
  Nestor Assogba is a retired Beninese Roman Catholic archbishop.He was ordained as a priest on December 21, 1957 and appointed Bishop of Parakou on April 10, 1976. He was ordained on July 25 of that year. He served as Archbishop of Parakou from October 16, 1997 until October 29, 1999 when he was...
  
  
• Athiémé
  Athiémé
  Athiémè is a town and arrondissement located in the Mono Department of Benin. The commune covers an area of 220 square kilometres and as of 2002 had a population of 39,481 people.-References:...
  
  
• Atokou
  Atokou
  Atokou is a village in western Benin. It is located in Bantè commune in the Collines Department.Nearby towns and villages include Lero , Akpouati , Keon , Kikon and Okpedie....
  
  
• Avrankou
  Avrankou
  Avrankou is a town, arrondissement, and commune in the Ouémé Department of south-eastern Benin. The commune covers an area of 150 square kilometres and as of 2002 had a population of 80,402 people.-References:...
  
  
• Awonou
  Awonou
  Awonou is a small town and arrondissement located in the commune of Adjohoun in the Borgou Department of Benin. Agriculture is the main industry. In 2008 during the 2008 Benin floods, Awonou was the only area not affected by the flooding of the Ouémé River which affected much of Adjohoun commune....
  
  
• Aworo
  Aworo
  Aworo is a village in the commune of Bassila in the Donga Department of western Benin. It is located near the border with Togo.-External links:*...
  
  
• Aziza
  Aziza
  Aziza means "near to God".The Aziza are a beneficent fairy race from Africa, specifically Dahomey. Living in the forest, they provide good magic for hunters...
  
  
• Martin Azonhiho
  Martin Azonhiho
  Col. Martin Dohou Azonhiho is a Beninese politician, native of Abomey. He was a confrontational, much-feared, and ultra-radical minister of information and ideologue in the leftist government of Mathieu Kérékou from 1974 to 1982. He is said to have played a part in the 1975 assassination of his...
  
  
• Azowlissé
  Azowlissé
  Azowlissé is a small town and arrondissement located in the commune of Adjohoun in the Borgou Department of Benin. Agriculture is the main industry lying in the fertile Ouémé River Valley of southern Benin. In 2008 during the 2008 Benin floods, the area was affected by the flooding of the Ouémé...
  
  

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• Bello Babatunde
• Wally Badarou
  Wally Badarou
  Wally Badarou is a musician from Benin.-Biography:A synthesiser specialist, Badarou was the longtime associate of the British band Level 42, known for its blend of funk, pop, soul and rock...
  
  
• Dauda Badaru
  Dauda Badaru
  Dauda Badaru is a Beninese politician. He was the foreign minister of Benin from 1968 to 1969 and again from 1970 to 1971.-References:...
  
  
• Bakaga
  Bakaga
  Bakaga is a village in the commune of Parakou in the Borgou Department of central-eastern Benin. It is located south-east of the city centre.-External links:*...
  
  
• Bakana-Kari
  Bakana-Kari
  Bakana-Kari is a village in the commune of Bassila in the Donga Department of western Benin. It is located near the border with Togo.-External links:*...
  
  
• Bakounkparou
  Bakounkparou
  Bakounkparou is a village in the commune of Parakou in the Borgou Department of central-eastern Benin. It is located north-west of the city centre.-External links:*...
  
  
• Bakounourou
  Bakounourou
  Bakounourou is a village in the commune of Parakou in the Borgou Department of central-eastern Benin. It is located south of the city centre.-External links:*...
  
  
• Bakperou
  Bakperou
  Bakperou is a village in the commune of Bassila in the Donga Department of western Benin.-External links:*...
  
  
• Aziz Balagoun
  Aziz Balagoun
  Aziz Balagoun is a Beninese international footballer. He currently plays in Belgium for K.M.S.K. Deinze.- Career :...
  
  
• Banikoara
  Banikoara
  Banikoara is a town, arrondissement and commune located in the Alibori Department of Benin. It lies 69 kilometers west of Kandi at the heart of the most productive cotton-growing region in Benin...
  
  
• Baningli
  Baningli
  Baningli is a village in the commune of Bassila in the Donga Department of western Benin.-External links:*...
  
  
• Bank of West Africa (BAO)
• Bantè
  Bantè
  Bantè is a town, arrondissement, and commune in western Benin. It is located in the former Zou Province of which since 1999 is part of the Collines Department. The commune covers an area of 2695 square kilometres and as of 2002 had a population of 82,129 people...
  
  
• Baperou
  Baperou
  Baperou is a village in the commune of Parakou in the Borgou Department of central-eastern Benin. It is located south-west of the city centre on the RNIE 2 highway.-External links:*...
  
  
• Bariba
  Bariba
  The Bariba people, self designation Baatonu , are the principal inhabitants of Borgou Department, Benin, and cofounders of the Borgu kingdom of what is now northeast Benin and northwest Nigeria. There are perhaps a million Bariba, 80% of them in Benin, where they are the fourth largest ethnic group...
  
  
• Battle of Abomey
  Battle of Abomey
  The Battle of Abomey was the climactic struggle in the Dahomey War between France and the Kingdom of Dahomey. French forces, commanded by Alfred-Amédée Dodds, were victorious over the Dahomey army. The triumph was pivotal to linking French possessions in upper Senegal with those in the upper Niger....
  
  
• Battle of Atakpamé
  Battle of Atakpamé
  The Battle of Atakpamé was an armed confrontation between the Ashanti Empire and the Yoruba Oyo Empire, in and around the Yoruba settlement of Atakpamé in Togo. The battle also included troops from the Kingdom of Dahomey, a vassal of Oyo.-Prelude:...
  
  
• Bassila
  Bassila
  Bassila is a town, arrondissement, and commune located in the Donga Department of Benin. The commune covers an area of 120 square kilometres and as of 2002 had a population of 71,511 people....
  
  
• Bayakou
  Bayakou
  Bayakou is a village in the commune of Bassila in the Donga Department of western Benin.-External links:*...
  
  
• Bembèrèkè
  Bembèrèkè
  Bembèrèkè is a town, arrondissement, and commune located in the Borgou Department of Benin. The commune covers an area of 3348 square kilometres and as of 2002 had a population of 94,580 people.-References:...
  
  
• Bembereke Airport
  Bembereke Airport
  Bembereke Airport is an airport serving Bembereke in Benin....
  
  
• Benin
  Benin
  Benin , officially the Republic of Benin, is a country in West Africa. It borders Togo to the west, Nigeria to the east and Burkina Faso and Niger to the north. Its small southern coastline on the Bight of Benin is where a majority of the population is located...
  
  
• Benin at the Olympics
  Benin at the Olympics
  Benin has sent athletes to every Summer Olympic Games held since 1980. Under its previous name of Dahomey, the country also competed in 1972. Despite appearing in nine different Olympics, Benin has never won an Olympic medal. No athletes from Benin have competed in any Winter Olympic...
  
  
• Benin cuisine
  Benin cuisine
  Beninese cuisine is known in Africa for its and exotic ingredients and flavorful dishes. Beninese cuisine involves lots of fresh meals served with a variety of sauces...
  
  
• Benin Cup
  Benin Cup
  The Benin Cup is the top knockout tournament of the Beninese football. It was created in 1974.-Winners:*1974 : Etoile Sportive No Cup between 1975 and 1977 *1978 : Requins de l'Atlantique FC...
  
  
• Benin Davis Cup team
  Benin Davis Cup team
  The Benin Davis Cup team represents Benin in Davis Cup tennis competition and are governed by the Fédération Beninoise de Lawn Tennis. They have not competed since 2005.-History:...
  
  
• Benin national football team
  Benin national football team
  The Benin national football team, nicknamed Les Écureuils , is the national football team of Benin and is controlled by the Fédération Béninoise de Football. They were known as the Dahomey national football team until 1975, when Dahomey became Benin. They have never made the World Cup but have...
  
  
• Benin national rugby union team
  Benin national rugby union team
  The Benin national rugby union team represents Benin in international rugby union. Benin is not a member of the International Rugby Board , and have yet to play in a Rugby World Cup tournament....
  
  
• Benin Premier League
  Benin Premier League
  The Benin Premier League, also called Championnat National du Bénin in French, is the highest football division in Benin. The league was delivered in 1969 for the first time. Currently, it is composed by 14 clubs playing a double round-robin tournament. The winner of the Premier League earns a...
  
  
• Benin–Russia relations
  Benin–Russia relations
  Benin–Russia relations is the relationship between the two countries, Benin and Russia.-Soviet-era relations:The Soviet Union recognised the Republic of Dahomey as an independent and sovereign state on 18 August 1960, and diplomatic relations between the two states were established on 4 June 1962...
  
  
• Beninese constitutional referendum, 1990
  Beninese constitutional referendum, 1990
  A constitutional referendum was held in Benin on 2 December 1990. The main issues were changing the political system to a multi-party system, with a secondary issue as to whether there should be age limits for the president...
  
  
• Beninese hip hop
  Beninese hip hop
  Hip hop music is a genre developed in the 1970s by African Americans in New York City. It began to spread across the world in the 80s, and became a major part of Beninese music after a 1992 concert by Senegalese-French rapper MC Solaar. At that concert, the crew H2O performed a Fon language-cover...
  
  
• Beninese parliamentary election, 1979
  Beninese parliamentary election, 1979
  Elections for the National Revolutionary Assembly were held in Benin on 20 November 1979. At the time, the country was a one-party state under the People's Revolutionary Party of Benin, with voters given the choice of approving the party's list of 336 candidates or not. The list was ultimately...
  
  
• Beninese parliamentary election, 1984
  Beninese parliamentary election, 1984
  Elections for the National Revolutionary Assembly were held in Benin on 10 June 1984. They were originally scheduled for 1983, but the term of the Assembly was extended by 18 months. At the time, the country was a one-party state under the People's Revolutionary Party of Benin, with voters given...
  
  
• Beninese parliamentary election, 1989
  Beninese parliamentary election, 1989
  Elections for the National Revolutionary Assembly were held in Benin on 18 June 1989. At the time, the country was a one-party state under the People's Revolutionary Party of Benin, with voters given the choice of approving the party's list of 206 candidates or not. In the election, 89.6% of...
  
  
• Beninese parliamentary election, 1991
  Beninese parliamentary election, 1991
  Elections for the National Assembly were held in Benin on 17 February 1991, the first multi-party elections in the country since 1964. Turnout was 51.7% of the 2,069,343 registered voters.-Results:...
  
  
• Beninese parliamentary election, 1995
  Beninese parliamentary election, 1995
  Elections for the National Assembly were held in Benin on 28 March 1995. Voting for 13 seats was re-run on 28 May after the Supreme Court had invalidated the results due to irregularities. Voter turnout was 75.8%.-Results:...
  
  
• Beninese parliamentary election, 1999
  Beninese parliamentary election, 1999
  Elections for the National Assembly were held in Benin on 30 March 1999. The Renaissance Party of Benin retained its status as the largest party in the Assembly, increasing its number of seats from 21 to 27, whilst the Democratic Renewal Party won only 11 seats, a reduction of seven.Voter turnout...
  
  
• Beninese parliamentary election, 2003
  Beninese parliamentary election, 2003
  A parliamentary election was held in Benin in 30 March 2003. The 83 seats in the National Assembly of Benin were split between twelve parties and two main alliances....
  
  
• Beninese parliamentary election, 2007
  Beninese parliamentary election, 2007
  A parliamentary election was held in Benin on 31 March 2007, having been delayed from an earlier date of 25 March due to difficulties in organizing it. 26 political parties and alliances took part in the election...
  
  
• Beninese presidential election, 1991
  Beninese presidential election, 1991
  Presidential elections were held in Benin in March 1991, the first such election since 1970. The first round, held on 10 March, saw no candidate receive more than 37% of the vote; the second round on 24 March resulted in Nicéphore Soglo being declared the winner, with almost two-thirds of the vote...
  
  
• Beninese presidential election, 1996
  Beninese presidential election, 1996
  Presidential elections were held in Benin in March 1996. The first round, held on 3 March, saw no candidate gain over 50% of the vote, resulting in a second round held on 18 March...
  
  
• Beninese presidential election, 2001
• Beninese presidential election, 2006
  Beninese presidential election, 2006
  A presidential election was held in the West African state of Benin on March 5, 2006. Long-time president Mathieu Kérékou was barred from running again by a two term limit and an age limit of 70 years for candidates; in July 2005 he signalled that he would not seek to change the constitution, as...
  
  
• Bereyadou
  Bereyadou
  Bereyadou is a village in the commune of Parakou in the Borgou Department of central-eastern Benin. It is located south-west of the city centre on the RNIE 2 highway.-External links:*...
  
  
• Olympe Bhely-Quenum
  Olympe Bhely-Quenum
  Olympe Bhêly-Quénum is a Beninese writer and journalist.Born in Ouidah, Benin, Bhêly-Quénum won the Grand prix littéraire de l'Afrique noire for Le Chant du lac in 1966.-Works:* Le Chant du lac...
  
  
• Rogatien Biaou
  Rogatien Biaou
  Rogatien Biaou is a Beninese politician and diplomat. Biaou was the Foreign Minister of Benin from June 12, 2003 to February 16, 2006. He was fired after President Mathieu Kérékou discovered Biaou's sale of land surrounding the Embassy of Benin in Washington to a U.S. company in 2002 was...
  
  
• Biguina
  Biguina
  Biguina is a village in the commune of Bassila in the Donga Department of western Benin. It is located near the border with Togo.-External links:*...
  
  
• .bj
  .bj
  .bj is the Internet country code top-level domain for Benin. It is administered by the Office of Stations and Telecommunications of Benin....
  
  
• Romuald Boco
  Romuald Boco
  Romuald Boco is a Benin international footballer who plays for Shanghai East Asia as a midfielder or as a defender.-Accrington Stanley :...
  
  
• Bodi, Benin
  Bodi, Benin
  Bodi is a village in the commune of Bassila in the Donga Department of western Benin. It is located near the border with Togo.-External links:*...
  
  
• Bohicon
  Bohicon
  Bohicon is a city in Benin, and a conurbation of Abomey lying 9 kilometres east of the city on the railway line from Cotonou to Parakou and on Benin’s main highway RNIE 2 which joins the RNIE 4. The commune covers an area of 139 square kilometres and as of 2002 had a population of 113,091...
  
  
• Bomako
  Bomako
  Bomako is a village in the commune of Bassila in the Donga Department of western Benin.-External links:*...
  
  
• Yayi Boni
  Yayi Boni
  Dr. Thomas Yayi Boni , a Beninese banker and politician, is the current President of Benin. He took office on 6 April 2006 after winning elections held in the previous month.-Biography:...
  
  
• Bonou
  Bonou
  Bonou is a town, arrondissement, and commune in the Ouémé Department of south-eastern Benin. The commune covers an area of 275 square kilometres and as of 2002 had a population of 29,656 people.-References:...
  
  
• Bopa
  Bopa
  Bopa is a town, arrondissement, and commune in the Mono Department of south-western Benin.The commune covers an area of 365 square kilometres and as of 2002 had a population of 70,268 people.-References:...
  
  
• Borarou
  Borarou
  Borarou is a village in the commune of Parakou in the Borgou Department of central-eastern Benin. It is located south-west of the city centre.-External links:*...
  
  
• Borgu
  Borgu
  Borgu was a 15th-16th century state in West Africa, partitioned between the Great Britain and France by the Anglo-French Convention of 1898. It lies in what is now Nigeria and the Republic of Benin.People of Borgu were known as Bariba and Borgawa....
  
  
• Bori, Benin
• Boukoumbé
  Boukoumbé
  Boukoumbé or Boukombé is a town, arrondissement and commune in north western Benin on the border with Togo. It is known for its market, its whipping ceremony and for its tradition of pipe making...
  
  
• Boutou, Benin
  Boutou, Benin
  Boutou, Benin is a village in the commune of Bassila in the Donga Department of western Benin.-External links:*...
  
  
• Pamela E. Bridgewater
  Pamela E. Bridgewater
  Pamela E. Bridgewater is a United States career diplomat, most recently posted as the U.S. Ambassador to Jamaica.-Biography:...
  
  
• Gayleatha B. Brown
  Gayleatha B. Brown
  Gayleatha Beatrice Brown is a United States foreign service officer and ambassador. She has served in several diplomatic posts during her career with the U.S. Department of State including U.S. ambassador to Benin and Burkina Faso....
  
  
• Buffles du Borgou FC
  Buffles du Borgou FC
  Buffles du Borgou FC are a Beninese football club based in Parakou. They currently play in the Benin Premier League.-Current Players 2009/10:-Achievements:*Benin Premier League: 3*Benin Cup: 3-Performance in CAF competitions:...
  
  
• Béhanzin
  Behanzin
  Béhanzin is considered the eleventh King of Dahomey . Upon taking the throne, he changed his name from Kondo. He succeeded his father, Glele, and ruled from 1889 to 1894. Behanzin was Abomey's last independent ruler established through traditional power structures...
  
  
• Bétérou
  Bétérou
  Bétérou is a town and arrondissement located in the Borgou Department of central Benin. As of 2009 it had an estimated population of 15,236....
  
  

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• Cadjehoun Airport
  Cadjehoun Airport
  Cotonou Cadjehoun Airport is an airport located in Cotonou, the biggest city in Benin in West Africa.In 2004, the airport served 301,493 passengers.-Airlines and destinations:-Incidents and accidents:...
  
  
• Cana Airport
  Cana Airport
  Cana Airport is an airport serving Bohicon in Benin....
  
  
• CEB-NEPA Power Interconnection
  CEB-NEPA Power Interconnection
  CEB–NEPA Power Interconnection is a long 330 kV powerline between Sakété and Ikeja . It connects Nigeria's power grid with Benin's grid .-History:...
  
  
• Celestial Church of Christ
  Celestial Church of Christ
  The Celestial Church of Christ is an African Initiated Church founded by the Rev. Samuel Biléhou Joseph Oschoffa on 29 September 1947 in Porto-Novo, Benin...
  
  
• Rachad Chitou
  Rachad Chitou
  Rachad Chitou is a Beninese footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Wikki Tourists.-International career:He was part of the Beninese 2004 African Nations Cup team, who finished bottom of their group in the first round of competition, thus failing to qualify for the next round.-External links:*...
  
  
• Choukachou
  Choukachou
  Choukachou or chouk is a Beninese millet beer.It is widely consumed in northern Benin and the city of Parakou is an important centre for brewing. The beer is transported to southern Benin, Cotonou etc via the railway or road....
  
  
• Damien Chrysostome
  Damien Chrysostome
  Damien Koffi Anderson Chrysostome is a Beninese international football-Career:In Italy Chrysostome was a member of the A.S. Cittadella Serie C1 squad for the 2002–03 and 2003–04 seasons and part of the 2004–05 season. The rest of 2004–05 was spent with A.S. Biellese 1902 in Serie C2...
  
  
• Coat of arms of Benin
  Coat of arms of Benin
  The coat of arms of Benin, originally introduced in 1964, was readopted in 1990 after being replaced in 1975.At the top of the emblem is the national crest that consists of two horns with corn in the ear and filled with sand. These are reputed to stand for prosperity...
  
  
• Cobly
  Cobly
  Cobly or Kobli is a town, arrondissement and commune in the Atakora Department of north-western Benin.The commune covers an area of 825 square kilometres and as of 2002 had a population of 46,660 people.-Geography:...
  
  
• Codjo François Azodogbehou
  Codjo François Azodogbehou
  Codjo François Azodogbehou is a politician from Benin. He was a Central Committee member of the People's Revolutionary Party of Benin and Minister of Rural Development and Cooperative Action. He is currently a spokesperson of the National Election Commission....
  
  
• Coffi Codjia
  Coffi Codjia
  Coffi Codjia is a Beninese football referee.An international referee since 1994, Codjia was a referee at the FIFA World Cup in 2002 and 2006, the FIFA Confederations Cup in 1999 and 2003 and the African Cup of Nations in 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008, in which he was the referee for the final, and...
  
  
• Communes of Benin
  Communes of Benin
  The departments of Benin are subdivided into 77 communes, which in turn are divided into arrondissements and finally into villages or city districts. Prior to 1999 provinces were broken down into 84 districts, titled either urban or rural...
  
  
• Comé
  Comé
  Comè is a town and arrondissement located in the Mono Department of Benin. The commune covers an area of 163 square kilometres and as of 2002 had a population of 58,396 people.-References:...
  
  
• Tahirou Congacou
  Tahirou Congacou
  Tahirou Congacou was a Beninese politician, most active during the 1960s, when his country was known as Dahomey. He served as speaker of the National Assembly from 1964 to 1965, and in that capacity served as acting President of Benin from 29 November 1965 to 22 December 1965...
  
  
• Copargo
  Copargo
  Copargo is a town, arrondissement, and commune in the Donga Department of western Benin. The commune covers an area of 876 square kilometres and as of 2002 had a population of 50,820 people.-References:...
  
  
• Cotonou
  Cotonou
  -Demographics:*1979: 320,348 *1992: 536,827 *2002: 665,100 *2005: 690,584 The main languages spoken in Cotonou include the Fon language, Aja language, Yoruba language and French.-Transport:...
  
  
• Cotonou Agreement
  Cotonou Agreement
  The Cotonou Agreement is a treaty between the European Union and the African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States . It was signed in June 2000 in Cotonou, the largest city in Benin, by 78 ACP countries and the then fifteen Member States of the European Union...
  
  
• Cotonou Cathedral
  Cotonou Cathedral
  The cathedral of Notre Dame de Miséricorde, commonly known as Cotonou Cathedral is a Roman Catholic cathedral, located near the Ancien Pont Bridge in Cotonou, Benin. It is noted for its distinct burgundy and white striped tiled architecture...
  
  
• Cotonou Central Mosque
  Cotonou Central Mosque
  The Cotonou Central Mosque is a mosque in Cotonou, Benin. It is the most important building for the country's Muslims....
  
  
• Cotonou Friendship Stadium
• Florent Couao-Zotti
  Florent Couao-Zotti
  Florent Couao-Zotti is a writer of comics, plays, and short stories, who lives in Cotonou, Benin. He is fond of employing the short-story as a form. He is also editor of several satirical magazines and a cultural columnist.-Publications:...
  
  
• Couffo River
• Cové
  Cové
  Cové is a city located in the Zou Department of Benin. The commune covers an area of 525 square kilometres and as of 2002 had a population of 34,442 people.-Geography:...
  
  
• Crime in Benin
  Crime in Benin
  Street robbery is a significant problem in Cotonou. Robbery and mugging occur along the Boulevard de France and on the beaches near hotels frequented by international visitors. Most of the reported incidents involve the use of force, often by armed persons, with occasional minor injury to the victim...
  
  

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• Dakodonou
  Dakodonou
  Dakodonou was the second King of Dahomey. He ruled from 1620 to 1645. In traditional Abomey stories, Dakodonou overthrew his brother, the previous King Gangnihessou, when the ruler was absent from the capital on a tour of the kingdom. Dakodonou is portrayed as a brutal and violent man...
  
  
• Dahomey
  Dahomey
  Dahomey was a country in west Africa in what is now the Republic of Benin. The Kingdom of Dahomey was a powerful west African state that was founded in the seventeenth century and survived until 1894. From 1894 until 1960 Dahomey was a part of French West Africa. The independent Republic of Dahomey...
  
  
• Dahomey Amazons
  Dahomey Amazons
  The Dahomey Amazons or Mino were a Fon all-female military regiment of the Kingdom of Dahomey which lasted until the end of the 19th century...
  
  
• Dahomey Gap
  Dahomey Gap
  In West Africa, the Dahomey Gap refers to the portion of the Guinean forest-savanna mosaic that extends all the way to the coast in Benin, Togo and Ghana, thus separating the forest zone that covers much of the south of the region into two separate parts...
  
  
• Dahomey mythology
  Dahomey mythology
  The Dahomey are a nation located in Benin, Africa. The mythology of the Dahomey includes an entire pantheon of thunder gods; for example,*Xevioso is the god of thunder in the So region....
  
  
• Dahomeyan Territorial Assembly election, 1952
  Dahomeyan Territorial Assembly election, 1952
  Elections for the Territorial Assembly were held in the French colony of Dahomey on 30 March 1952. Sourou-Migan Apithy's Republican Party of Dahomey won 19 of the 32 seats.-Results:...
  
  
• Dahomeyan constitutional referendum, 1964
  Dahomeyan constitutional referendum, 1964
  A constitutional referendum was held in Dahomey on 5 January 1964. The main issues were changing the system of government to a presidential system, scrapping term limits for the president, and having a unicameral parliament. The referendum passed with 99.86% of voters approving the changes....
  
  
• Dahomeyan constitutional referendum, 1968
  Dahomeyan constitutional referendum, 1968
  A constitutional referendum was held in Dahomey on 31 March 1968. As with the 1964 referendum, the main issues were changing the system of government to a presidential system, scrapping term limits for the president, and having a unicameral parliament. The referendum passed with 92.2% of voters...
  
  
• Dahomeyan legislative election, 1959
• Dahomeyan parliamentary election, 1960
• Dahomeyan presidential election, 1960
• Dahomeyan presidential election, 1964
• Dahomeyan presidential election, July 1968
  Dahomeyan presidential election, July 1968
  A plebiscite on the candidate for president was held in Dahomey on 28 July 1968. The results of the May 1968 presidential election had been annulled due to low voter turnout. The military government appointed Émile Derlin Zinsou to the position, but he accepted only on the condition that a...
  
  
• Dahomeyan presidential election, May 1968
  Dahomeyan presidential election, May 1968
  Presidential elections were held in Dahomey on 5 May 1968. Basile Adjou won with 84% of the vote, but the results were invalidated due to insufficient voter turnout . A referendum on 28 July resulted in Émile Derlin Zinsou being confirmed as president.-Results:...
  
  
• Dangbo
  Dangbo
  Dangbo is a town, arrondissement, and commune in the Ouémé Department of south-eastern Benin.The commune covers an area of 340 square kilometres and as of 2002 had a population of 66,055 people.-References:...
  
  
• Dantokpa Market
  Dantokpa Market
  The Dantokpa Market is a market in Cotonou, Benin. It is one of the most important retailing areas in Benin, covering over 20 hectares. It is also economically important for the country, with a reported commercial turnover of over a billion CFA Francs a day....
  
  
• Darou Kourarou
  Darou Kourarou
  Darou Kourarou is a village in the commune of Parakou in the Borgou Department of central-eastern Benin. It is located north-west of the city centre.-External links:*...
  
  
• Paul Darboux
  Paul Darboux
  Paul Darboux is a Beninese merchant and politician, most active when his country was known as Dahomey.-Early life:Darboux was born to a noble Djougou family on May 10, 1919. He soon became an important merchant, and a power base rapidly grew around him, among the Dendi and Wangara peoples of the...
  
  
• Dassa-Zoumé
  Dassa-Zoumé
  Dassa-Zoumé, often shortened to Dassa, is a city in Benin, on the Cotonou to Parakou railway and the main north-south highway. The commune covers an area of 1711 square kilometres and as of 2002 had a population of 93,967 people....
  
  
• Antoine Dayori
  Antoine Dayori
  Antoine Dayori is a Beninese politician and the leader of the Hope Force political party.Dayori was one of five Force Clé candidates elected to the National Assembly in the March 2003 parliamentary election. He served as Minister of Culture, Crafts, and Tourism from February 2005 to April 2006...
  
  
• Debregourou
  Debregourou
  Debregourou is a village in the commune of Parakou in the Borgou Department of central-eastern Benin. It is located north of the city centre on the RNIE 2 highway.-External links:*...
  
  
• Departments of Benin
  Departments of Benin
  ||Benin is divided into 12 departments , and subdivided into 77 communes . In 1999, the previous six departments were each split into two halves, forming the current 12...
  
  
• Mariam Aladji Boni Diallo
  Mariam Aladji Boni Diallo
  Mariam Aladji Boni Diallo is a Beninese politician. She was Benin's Minister of Foreign Affairs from 10 April 2006 to 17 June 2007....
  
  
• Diengou
  Diengou
  Diengou is a village in the commune of Bassila in the Donga Department of western Benin.-External links:*...
  
  
• Adigo Dinalo
  Adigo Dinalo
  Dinalo Christiano Adigo is a former Beninese football player who works now as Head Coach by FC Schönberg 95.-Career:Adigo played for Kickers Offenbach, including a DFB Pokal first round match against Hertha Berlin in 1994....
  
  
• Djakotomey
  Djakotomey
  Djakotomey is a town and commune in the Kouffo Department of south-western Benin. The commune covers an area of 325 square kilometres and as of 2002 had a population of 96,732 people.-References:...
  
  
• Djidja
  Djidja
  Djidja is a town, arrondissement, and commune in the Zou Department of south-western Benin. The commune covers an area of 2184 square kilometres and as of 2002 had a population of 84,590 people.-Geography:...
  
  
• Yoann Djidonou
  Yoann Djidonou
  Yoann Djidonou is a Beninese international football player who currently plays in France for Libourne.-Club career:Born in Domont, France, Djidonou began his career in 2004 at Racing Paris...
  
  
• Patrice Djokoue
  Patrice Djokoue
  Patrice Djokoue is a Beninese international football player who currently plays in Benin for Requins.- Career :He began to play for Requins and was promoted to first team in 2009.- International :...
  
  
• Djougou
  Djougou
  Djougou is the largest city in north west Benin. It is an important market town. The commune covers an area of 3,966 square kilometres and as of 2002 had a population of 181,895 people.-General Information:...
  
  
• Djougou Airport
  Djougou Airport
  Djougou Airport is an airport serving Djougou in Benin....
  
  
• Alfred-Amédée Dodds
  Alfred-Amédée Dodds
  Alfred-Amédée Dodds was a French General, commander of French forces in Sénégal from 1890, commander of French forces in the second expeditionary force to suppress The Boxer Rebellion, and commander of French forces during the Second Franco-Dahomean War...
  
  
• Richard Dogbeh
  Richard Dogbeh
  Richard Dogbeh was a novelist and educator. He served as Benin's Directeur de Cabinet of the National Ministry of Education from 1963 to 1966...
  
  
• Dogbo-Tota
  Dogbo-Tota
  Dogbo-Tota is a city located in the Kouffo Department of Benin. The commune covers an area of 475 square kilometres and as of 2002 had a population of 76,947 people.-References:...
  
  
• Dogue, Benin
  Dogue, Benin
  Dogue is a village in the commune of Bassila in the Donga Department of western Benin.-External links:*...
  
  
• Frédéric Dohou
  Frédéric Dohou
  Frédéric Dohou is a political figure from Benin.He holds a PhD in Development Economics and he held several ministerial posts under the chairmanship of Mathieu Kérékou....
  
  
• Dokparou
  Dokparou
  Dokparou is a village in the commune of Parakou in the Borgou Department of central-eastern Benin. It is located north-east of the city centre.-External links:*...
  
  
• Don, Benin
  Don, Benin
  Don is a town in Benin, Africa. It has a population of 17092. Nearest large airports areCotonou Cadjehoun in Cotonou and Lomé-Tokoin in Lomé, Togo...
  
  
• Robert Dossou
  Robert Dossou
  Robert Dossou is a Beninese politician. He was the foreign minister of Benin from 1993 to 1995.-References:...
  
  
• Noel Dossou-Yovo
  Noel Dossou-Yovo
  Noel Dossou-Yovo was a Beninese academic. The holder of various degrees, he was head of African Studies at the National University of Benin in Cotonou. Dossou-Yovo held the positions of Deputy Director at the Center of African Family Studies in Nairobi from 1983 to 1996...
  
  
• Douerou
  Douerou
  Douerou is a village in the commune of Parakou in the Borgou Department of central-eastern Benin. It is located south-west of the city centre.-External links:*...
  
  
• AS Dragons FC de l'Ouémé
  AS Dragons FC de l'Ouémé
  The AS Dragons FC de l'Ouémé are a football club of Benin, playing in the town of Porto-Novo. They play in the Beninese first division, the Benin Premier League.-Achievements:...
  
  
• Dynamo Unacob FC de Parakou
  Dynamo Unacob FC de Parakou
  Dynamo Unacob FC de Parakou are a Beninese football club based in Parakou. They currently play in the Benin Premier League for season 2010.- Current Players 2010 :...
  
  
• Dèmè
  Dèmè
  Dèmè is a small town and arrondissement located in the commune of Adjohoun in the Borgou Department of Benin. Agriculture is the main industry lying in the fertile Ouémé River Valley of southern Benin. In 2008 during the 2008 Benin floods, the area was affected by the flooding of the Ouémé River...
  
  
• Vissinto Ayi d'Almeida
  Vissinto Ayi d'Almeida
  Vissinto Ayi d'Almeida is the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Benin to the Russian Federation.- References :...
  
  
• Laurent D'Jaffo
  Laurent D'Jaffo
  Laurent Mayaba D'Jaffo is a retired Beninese football player.D'Jaffo was born in France but moved to Africa at the two years old...
  
  

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• Angueran Edjekpan
  Angueran Edjekpan
  Mathieu Enguérand Edjekpan Guerin is a Beninese international football player who currently plays in Italy for Mesagne.- Early career :...
  
  
• Education in Benin
  Education in Benin
  Although its education system used not to be free, Benin has now abolished school fees and is carrying out the recommendations of its 2007 Educational Forum. In 1996, the gross primary enrollment rate was 72.5 percent, and the net primary enrollment rate was 59.3 percent...
  
  
• Ehinomen Ehikhamenor
  Ehinomen Ehikhamenor
  Ehinomen Ehikhamenor, is a professional boxer from Nigeria who fights in the cruiserweight division.-Professional career:...
  
  
• Jean-Marie Ehouzou
  Jean-Marie Ehouzou
  Jean-Marie Ehouzou is a Beninese diplomat, currently serving as Minister of Foreign Affairs, African Integration, La Francophonie, and Beninese Abroad...
  
  
• Elections in Benin
  Elections in Benin
  Benin elects on national level a head of state - the president - and a legislature. The president is elected for a five year term by the people. The National Assembly has 83 members, elected for a four year term by proportional representation.Benin has a multi-party system, which means that there...
  
  
• Embassy of Benin in Moscow
  Embassy of Benin in Moscow
  The Embassy of Benin in Moscow is the diplomatic mission of Benin in the Russian Federation. It is located at 7 Uspensky Lane in the Tverskoy District of Moscow.- References :...
  
  
• Energy in Benin
  Energy in Benin
  Energy in Benin is a growing industry with tremendous potential.-Oil:Production from the Sémé off shore oil field began in October 1982 by Saga Petroleum, a Norwegian company working under a service contract. The field yielded of oil in 1991. In 1990, Benin exported an estimated of crude oil...
  
  

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• Pascal Fantodji
  Pascal Fantodji
  Pascal Fantodji is a Beninese professor and long-time first secretary of the Communist Party of Benin . In the Benin presidential election of 1996, Fantodji received 1.08 percent of the vote . -References:...
  
  
• Kamarou Fassassi
  Kamarou Fassassi
  Kamarou Fassassi is a Beninese politician.Fassassi was born in Porto-Novo. He was Director of the Cabinet of the President of the National Assembly of Benin, Adrien Houngbédji, from 1992 to 1995, and he was elected to the National Assembly in the March 1995 parliamentary election...
  
  
• Adelaide Fassinou
  Adelaide Fassinou
  Adelaide H. Edith Bignon Fassinou is a Beninese writer and Benin's General Secretary for UNESCO. She has written four novels in French. Her married name is Allagbada.-Publications:...
  
  
• Fédération Béninoise de Football
  Fédération Béninoise de Football
  The Fédération Béninoise de Football is the governing body of football in Benin. It was founded in 1962, affiliated to FIFA the same year and to CAF in 1969...
  
  
• Fabienne Feraez
  Fabienne Feraez
  Fabienne Feraez is a Beninese sprinter who specializes in the 200 metres. She switched nationality from her native France on August 12, 2003.-Achievements:-Personal bests:*100 metres - 11.55 s *200 metres - 22.81 s...
  
  
• Fetish priest
  Fetish priest
  In Ghana, Togo, and Benin and other parts of West Africa a fetish priest serves a spirit associated with an image or object that is usually kept in an enclosed place called a fetish shrine, often a simple mud hut with some kind of enclosure or fence around it. He performs rituals to consult and...
  
  
• First Franco-Dahomean War
• Flag of Benin
  Flag of Benin
  The national flag of Benin was adopted in 1959. It was changed upon the accession of the Marxist regime in 1975, but upon the latter's fall the old design was reintroduced on August 1, 1990. The colours are the traditional Pan-African colours : green symbolizes hope, yellow symbolizes wealth and...
  
  
• Fon language
  Fon language
  Fon is part of the Gbe language cluster and belongs to the Volta–Niger branch of the Niger–Congo languages. Fon is spoken mainly in Benin by approximately 1.7 million speakers, by the Fon people...
  
  
• Football in Benin
  Football in Benin
  Football in Benin is a very popular sport. Governed by the Fédération Béninoise de Football, the Benin national football team joined both FIFA and CAF in 1969 as Dahomey...
  
  
• Forane Kparou
  Forane Kparou
  Forane Kparou is a village in the commune of Parakou in the Borgou Department of central-eastern Benin. It is located north-west of the city centre.-External links:*...
  
  
• Foreign relations of Benin
  Foreign relations of Benin
  After seizing power in 1972 Major Mathieu Kérékou declared Dahomey a Marxist-Leninist state and sought financial support from communist governments in Eastern Europe and Asia. To distance the modern state from its colonial past, the country became the People's Republic of Benin in 1975...
  
  
• Freedom of religion in Benin
  Freedom of religion in Benin
  The Constitution provides for freedom of religion, and the Government generally respected this right in practice. There were no reports of societal abuses or discrimination based on religious belief or practice, and prominent societal leaders took positive steps to promote religious...
  
  
• French Dahomey
  French Dahomey
  Dahomey was a French colony of and a part of French West Africafrom 1904 to 1958. After World War II, by the establishment of the French Fourth Republic in 1947, Dahomey became part of the French Union with an increased autonomy. On 11 December 1958, the French Fifth Republic was established and...
  
  
• French language
  French language
  French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...
  
  
• French West Africa
  French West Africa
  French West Africa was a federation of eight French colonial territories in Africa: Mauritania, Senegal, French Sudan , French Guinea , Côte d'Ivoire , Upper Volta , Dahomey and Niger...
  
  
• Fula language
  Fula language
  The Fula or Fulani language is a language of West Africa. It is spoken as a first language by the and related groups from Senegambia and Guinea to Cameroon and Sudan...
  
  

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• Ga Yakabou
  Ga Yakabou
  Ga Yakabou is a village in the commune of Parakou in the Borgou Department of central-eastern Benin. It is located north-west of Parakou city centre.-External links:*...
  
  
• Gagbebou
  Gagbebou
  Gagbebou is a village in the commune of Parakou in the Borgou Department of central-eastern Benin. It is located north-west of the city centre.-External links:*...
  
  
• Gando, Benin
  Gando, Benin
  Gando is a village in the commune of Bassila in the Donga Department of western Benin. It is located near the border with Togo.-External links:*...
  
  
• Gangban
  Gangban
  Gangban is a small town and the seat of the Tohouè arrondissement located in the commune of Ouinhi in the Zou Department of Benin. Agriculture is the main industry lying in the fertile Ouémé River Valley of southern Benin.-2008 flooding:...
  
  
• Gangbé Brass Band
  Gangbe brass band
  The Gangbé Brass Band is a 10-member Beninese musical ensemble founded in 1994. The word "gangbe" means "sound of metal" in the Fon language. They blend West African juju and traditional Vodou music with Western jazz and big-band sounds...
  
  
• Gangnihessou
  Gangnihessou
  Gangnihessou, or Ganye Hessou, is the first of the traditional "twelve kings of Dahomey." Dahomey was an African kingdom situated in what is now Benin.- Descent :...
  
  
• Ganou
  Ganou
  Ganou is a village in the commune of Parakou in the Borgou Department of central-eastern Benin. It is located north of the city centre.-External links:*...
  
  
• Bernardin Gantin
• Ganvie
  Ganvie
  Ganvie is a lake village in Benin, lying in Lake Nokoué, near Cotonou. With a population of around 20,000 people, it is probably the largest lake village in Africa and as such is very popular with tourists....
  
  
• Gaougado
  Gaougado
  Gaougado is a village in the commune of Bassila in the Donga Department of western Benin.-External links:*...
  
  
• Alain Gaspoz
  Alain Gaspoz
  Alain Gaspoz is a Beninese football player who, is playing for FC Bagnes.-International:He was part of the Beninese 2004 African Nations Cup team, who finished bottom of their group in the first round of competition, thus failing to secure qualification for the quarter-finals.-External links:* *...
  
  
• Gassagadi
  Gassagadi
  Gassagadi is a village in the commune of Bassila in the Donga Department of western Benin.-External links:*...
  
  
• Gatakpal
  Gatakpal
  Gatakpal is a village in the commune of Bassila in the Donga Department of western Benin.-External links:*...
  
  
• Béatrice Lalinon Gbado
  Béatrice Lalinon Gbado
  Béatrice Lalinon Gbado is a children's writer from Benin.She has written 31 children's books published by éditions Ruisseaux d'Afrique and EDICEF .She is married with four children.She is director of Edition Ruisseaux d’Afrique....
  
  
• Daniel Gbaguidi
  Daniel Gbaguidi
  Daniel Gbaguidi is a Beninese international football player. Currently, he plays in the Championnat de France amateur for FC Mulhouse.- Career :...
  
  
• Marie-Elise Gbèdo
  Marie-Elise Gbèdo
  Marie-Elise Akouavi Gbèdo is a Beninese politician who has run for president twice. In May 1998 she was made Minister of Commerce, Crafts, and Tourism under President Mathieu Kérékou; he dismissed her from that position in June 1999...
  
  
• Geography of Benin
  Geography of Benin
  Benin, a narrow, key-shaped, north-south strip of land in West Africa, lies between the Equator and the Tropic of Cancer. Benin's latitude ranges from 6°30′ N to 12°30′ N and its longitude from 1° E to 3°40′ E. Benin is bounded by Togo to the west, Burkina Faso and Niger to the...
  
  
• Gen language
  Gen language
  Gen is a Gbe language spoken in the southeast of Togo in the Maritime Region. It is also spoken in the Mono Department of Benin. It is part of the Volta–Niger branch of the major African Niger–Congo language family...
  
  
• Ghezo
  Ghezo
  Ghezo was the ninth King of Dahomey , considered one of the greatest of the twelve historical kings. He ruled from 1818 to 1858. His name before ascending to the throne was Gakpe....
  
  
• Glazoué
  Glazoué
  Glazoué is a town, arrondissement, and commune in the Collines Department of central Benin. It is located on the railwayline from Cotonou to Parakou. The commune covers an area of 1350 square kilometres and as of 2002 had a population of 90,475 people....
  
  
• Glele
  Glele
  Badohou, who took the throne name Glele, is considered to be the tenth King of the Aja kingdom of Dahomey . He succeeded his father, Ghezo, and ruled from 1858 to 1889....
  
  
• John Glélé
  John Glélé
  John Glélé is a Beninese international footballer. He last played in Cyprus for Aris Limassol.- Career :Glélé began his career from En Avant Guingamp B and was in 2005 transferred to Amiens SC B. Than left the club 2007, he played the first half of the season 2007/2008 for Cowdenbeath F.C. and the...
  
  
• Gleti
  Gleti
  Gleti is a moon goddess from the African kingdom of Dahomey, situated in what is now Benin.In Dahomey mythology, she is the mother of all the stars. An eclipse is caused by the shadow of the moon’s husband crossing her face....
  
  
• Luc Gnacadja
  Luc Gnacadja
  Luc-Marie Constant Gnacadja is a Beninese politician and an architect. Under President Mathieu Kérékou, he was Minister of the Environment, Housing, and Urban Planning from June 1999 to February 2005...
  
  
• Mathieu Gnanligo
  Mathieu Gnanligo
  Mathieu Gnanligo is a Beninese sprinter who specializes in the 400 metres. His personal best time is 45.88 seconds, achieved in the heats of the 2008 African Championships in Addis Ababa....
  
  
• Christine Adjahi Gnimagnon
  Christine Adjahi Gnimagnon
  -Publications:*Do Massé : Contes fons du Bénin. Paris: L'Harmattan, 2002. . ISBN 2-7475-3351-4.*Le Forgeron magicien. Paris: L'Harmattan, 2008. . ISBN : 978-2-296-04976-5....
  
  
• Joseph Gnonlonfoun
  Joseph Gnonlonfoun
  Joseph Gnonlonfoun is a Beninese politician. He was the foreign minister of Benin in 2003.-References:...
  
  
• Gogounou
  Gogounou
  Gogounou is a town, arrondissement and commune in the Alibori Department of Benin, about 35 kilometres south of Kandi. The commune covers an area of 4910 square kilometres and as of 2002 had a population of 80,013 people.-Geography:...
  
  
• Gommboko
  Gommboko
  Gommboko is a village in the commune of Parakou in the Borgou Department of central-eastern Benin. It is located south of Parakou city centre.-External links:*...
  
  
• Gorobani
  Gorobani
  Gorobani is a village in the commune of Parakou in the Borgou Department of central-eastern Benin. It is located west of Parakou city centre.-External links:*...
  
  
• Gouforou
  Gouforou
  Gouforou is a village in the commune of Parakou in the Borgou Department of central-eastern Benin. It is located south of Parakou city centre.-External links:*...
  
  
• Goutere
  Goutere
  Goutere is a village in the commune of Parakou in the Borgou Department of central-eastern Benin. It is located south-east of Parakou city centre.-External links:*...
  
  
• Goutoungadoni
  Goutoungadoni
  Goutoungadoni is a village in the commune of Bassila in the Donga Department of western Benin.-External links:*...
  
  
• Grand-Popo
  Grand-Popo
  Grand-Popo is a town, arrondissement, and commune in the Mono Department of south-western Benin. The commune covers an area of 289 square kilometres and as of 2002 had a population of 40,335 people....
  
  
• Yury Grashchenkov
  Yury Grashchenkov
  Yury Grigoriyevich Grashchenkov is a career diplomat and is the current ambassador of the Russian Federation to Benin.Grashchenkov graduated from the Moscow State Institute of International Relations in 1974, and went on to work in various diplomatic posts in the central offices of the Ministry...
  
  
• GS Telecom
  GS Telecom
  GS Telecom is a telecommunications and Internet service provider operating primarily in Africa. The company is located in the Channel Islands of the United Kingdom. GS has many corporate clients in Africa, including the telecommunications, banking, agriculture, manufacturing and mining...
  
  
• Guene
  Guénè
  Guénè is a town and arrondissement in the Alibori Department of northeastern Benin. It is an administrative division under the jurisdiction of the commune of Malanville. According to the population census conducted by the Institut National de la Statistique Benin on February 15, 2002, the...
  
  
• Guiguizo
  Guiguizo
  Guiguizo is a village in the commune of Bassila in the Donga Department of western Benin.-External links:*...
  
  
• Guinean forest-savanna mosaic
  Guinean forest-savanna mosaic
  The Guinean forest-savanna mosaic is an ecoregion of West Africa, a band of interlaced forest, savanna, and grassland running east to west and dividing the tropical moist forests near the coast from the West Sudanian savanna of the interior.-Setting:...
  
  
• Guinrerou
  Guinrerou
  Guinrerou is a village in the commune of Parakou in the Borgou Department of central-eastern Benin. It is located west of Parakou city centre along the RNIE 6 road.-External links:*...
  
  
• Jerome Sacca Kina Guezere
  Jerome Sacca Kina Guezere
  Jerome Sacca Kina Guezere was a Beninese politician. He was the Fourth Vice-President of the African Union's Pan-African Parliament....
  
  
• Guérérou
  Guérérou
  Guérérou is a village in the commune of Parakou in the Borgou Department of central-eastern Benin. It is located north-west of Parakou city centre.-External links:*...
  
  

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• Jean-Baptiste Hachème
  Jean-Baptiste Hachème
  Major Jean-Baptiste Hachème was a Beninese military officer and politician. He was most active when his country was known as Dahomey. Of Fon origins, he entered the national political stage in 1963, when he quelled riots started by supporters of former president Hubert Maga...
  
  
• Guy Landry Hazoumé
  Guy Landry Hazoumé
  Guy Landry Hazoumé is a Beninese politician. He was the foreign minister of Benin from 1987 to 1989.-References:...
  
  
• Health in Benin
  Health in Benin
  In Benin, most serious epidemic diseases have been brought under control by mobile health units and other facilities. Yaws has been almost totally eradicated in the northern part of the country. Sleeping sickness has also been greatly reduced in the north and yellow fever has all but disappeared...
  
  
• History of Benin
  History of Benin
  The Republic of Benin was the seat of Dahomey, one of the great medieval African kingdoms, governed from the capital, Abomey, now a UNESCO World Heritage Site.-Colonial Benin :...
  
  
• HIV/AIDS in Benin
  HIV/AIDS in Benin
  The number of adults and children living with HIV/AIDS in Benin in 2003 was estimated by the Joint United Nations Programme for HIV/AIDS to range between 38,000 and 120,000, with nearly equal numbers of males and females. A recent study conducted by the National AIDS Control Program estimated the...
  
  
• Théodore Holo
  Théodore Holo
  Théodore Holo is a Beninese politician. He was the foreign minister of Benin from 1991 to 1992.-References:...
  
  
• Houegbadja
  Houegbadja
  Aho Houegbadja was the third King of Dahomey. He succeeded his uncle, Dakodonou, and ruled from 1645 to 1685.Houegbadja was the first of the dynasty to set up the kingdom in Abomey proper: he founded the city by building his palace near the area of Guedevi, a few kilometers to the northwest of...
  
  
• Houéyogbé
  Houéyogbé
  Houéyogbé is a town, arrondissement, and commune in the Mono Department of south-western Benin. The commune covers an area of 290 square kilometres and as of 2002 had a population of 74,492 people.-References:...
  
  
• Colette Senami Agossou Houeto
  Colette Senami Agossou Houeto
  Colette Sénami Agossou Houeto is an educator and a feminist poet. She attended the University of Strasbourg and later the Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich. In Benin she served as Director of the National Institute of Training and Research into Education from 1977 to 1981. She also wrote a...
  
  
• Djimon Hounsou
  Djimon Hounsou
  Djimon Diaw Hounsou is a Beninese actor and model. As an actor, Hounsou has been nominated for two Academy Awards.-Early life:Djimon Hounsou was born in Cotonou, Benin, in 1964, to lbertine and Pierre Hounsou, a cook. He emigrated to Lyon in France at the age of thirteen with his brother, Edmond....
  
  
• Adrien Houngbédji
  Adrien Houngbédji
  Adrien Houngbédji is a Beninese politician and the leader of the Democratic Renewal Party , one of Benin's main political parties. He was President of the National Assembly of Benin from 1991 to 1995, Prime Minister of Benin from 1996 to 1998, and President of the National Assembly for a second...
  
  
• Gatien Houngbédji
  Gatien Houngbédji
  Gatien Houngbédji is a Beninese politician and the president of the Union for Economic and Social Development . Under President Mathieu Kérékou, he was Minister of Trade, Craft Industry, and Tourism from April 1996 to May 1998...
  
  
• Paulin J. Hountondji
  Paulin J. Hountondji
  Paulin Hountondji is a Beninese philosopher and politician.Hountondji was educated at the Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, graduating in 1966, and taking his doctorate in 1970...
  
  

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• Simon Idohou
  Simon Idohou
  Dr. Simon Bodéhoussè Idohou was the Permanent Representative for Benin to the United Nations from 2005 to 2006....
  
  
• Ifangni
  Ifangni
  Ifangni is a town, arrondissement, and commune in the Plateau Department of south-eastern Benin. The commune covers an area of 242 square kilometres and as of 2002 had a population of 71,606 people.-References:...
  
  
• Igbere
  Igbere
  Igbere is a village in the commune of Bassila in the Donga Department of western Benin.-External links:*...
  
  
• Igbomakoro
  Igbomakoro
  Igbomakoro is a village in the commune of Bassila in the Donga Department of western Benin.-External links:*...
  
  
• Inkolonie
  Inkolonie
  Inkolonie is a village in the commune of Bassila in the Donga Department of western Benin. It is located near the border with Togo.-External links:*...
  
  
• Itutu
  Itutu
  Itutu, which literally translates as "cool" from the Yoruba language, has been used by the Yoruba and more recently by Africanist art historians to describe the aesthetic that characterizes much Yoruba and some African-American art. An "Itutu" aesthetic includes the appearance of a calm, collected...
  
  
• Iyo, Benin
  Iyo, Benin
  Iyo is a village in the commune of Bassila in the Donga Department of western Benin.-External links:*...
  
  

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• Jews of Bilad el-Sudan
• Paulin Joachim
  Paulin Joachim
  Paulin Joachim is a Beninese poet, journalist, and editor. He was educated in several places including Lyon and by 1971 was a French citizen. He also worked with French poet Philippe Soupault. His two volumes of poetry are Un nègre raconte in 1954 and Anti-grâce in 1967...
  
  
• Réda Johnson
  Réda Johnson
  Réda Johnson is a footballer who plays for Football League One club Sheffield Wednesday as a defender, having previously played for Gueugnon, Amiens and Plymouth Argyle...
  
  

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• Moussoro Kabirou
  Moussoro Kabirou
  Kabirou Moussoro Moubang is a former Cameroon-born, Beninese football player.-Career:Kabirou played several seasons for Pau FC in the French Championnat National.a jouer en 2008/09 au fco st jean de la ruelle...
  
  
• Kabiyé language
  Kabiyé language
  Kabiyè is a Grusi language spoken primarily in northern Togo, and also by smaller numbers of people in Benin and Ghana. It is one of two national languages of Togo.-References:-External links:**...
  
  
• Kaborokpo
  Kaborokpo
  Kaborokpo is a village in the commune of Parakou in the Borgou Department of central-eastern Benin. It is located west of Parakou city centre.-External links:*...
  
  
• Kabro
  Kabro
  Kabro is a village in the commune of Parakou in the Borgou Department of central-eastern Benin. It is located west of Parakou city centre.-External links:*...
  
  
• Kadjimani
  Kadjimani
  Kadjimani is a village in the commune of Bassila in the Donga Department of western Benin.-External links:*...
  
  
• Kafingbe
  Kafingbe
  Kafingbe is a village in western Benin. It is located in Bantè commune in the Collines Department.Nearby towns and villages include Amou , Okpedie , Aloba , Gbede , Sako , Abidzi and Konfouda .-External links:*...
  
  
• Kalalé
  Kalalé
  Kalalè is a town, arrondissement, and commune in the Borgou Department of eastern Benin. The commune covers an area of 3586 square kilometres and as of 2002 had a population of 100,026 people.-References:...
  
  
• Kandi
  Kandi
  Kandi is a town, arrondissement and commune in the Alibori Department of eastern Benin. Originally a market town, Kandi is now primarily a farming centre. It lies on the nation's main north-south highway, 650 km from Cotonou and 325 miles north of Porto-Novo. The town is the capital of...
  
  
• Kandi Airport
  Kandi Airport
  Kandi Airport is an airport serving Kandi in Benin....
  
  
• Kaoute
  Kaoute
  Kaoute is a village in the commune of Bassila in the Donga Department of western Benin.-External links:*...
  
  
• Karimama, Benin
• Karobouarou
  Karobouarou
  Karobouarou is a village in the commune of Parakou in the Borgou Department of central-eastern Benin. It is located north-east of Parakou city centre.-External links:*...
  
  
• Katia, Benin
  Katia, Benin
  Katia is a village in the commune of Bassila in the Donga Department of western Benin.-External links:*...
  
  
• Kemeni, Benin
  Kemeni, Benin
  Kemeni is a village in the commune of Bassila in the Donga Department of western Benin.-External links:*...
  
  
• Kemetou Alidjo
  Kemetou Alidjo
  Kemetou Alidjo is a village in the commune of Bassila in the Donga Department of western Benin.-External links:*...
  
  
• Kemetou Penezoulou
  Kemetou Penezoulou
  Kemetou Penezoulou is a village in the commune of Bassila in the Donga Department of western Benin.-External links:*...
  
  
• Ketu
  Ketu (Benin)
  Ketu is a historical location in present day Republic of Benin. It is one of the oldest capitals of the Yoruba speaking people, tracing its establishment to a settlement founded by a daughter of Oduduwa, also known as Odudua, Oòdua and Eleduwa...
  
  
• Angélique Kidjo
  Angélique Kidjo
  Angélique Kpasseloko Hinto Hounsinou Kandjo Manta Zogbin Kidjo, commonly known as Angélique Kidjo is a Grammy Award–winning Beninoise singer-songwriter and activist, noted for her diverse musical influences and creative music videos. Time Magazine has called her "Africa's premier diva". The BBC has...
  
  
• Kikele
  Kikele
  Kikele is a village in the commune of Bassila in the Donga Department of western Benin.-External links:*...
  
  
• Kingdom of Whydah
  Kingdom of Whydah
  The Kingdom of Whydah , sometimes written Hueda, was a kingdom on the coast of West Africa in the boundaries of the modern nation of Benin. Between 1677 and 1681 it was conquered by the Akwamu a member of the Akan people. It was a major slave trading post...
  
  
• Kiparé
  Kiparé
  Kiparé is a village in the commune of Parakou in the Borgou Department of central-eastern Benin. It is located south of Parakou city centre.-External links:*...
  
  
• Klouékanmè
  Klouékanmè
  Klouékanmè is a town, arrondissement, and commune in the Kouffo Department of south-western Benin. The commune covers an area of 250 square kilometres and as of 2002 had a population of 93,324 people.-References:...
  
  
• Koakoaliki
  Koakoaliki
  Koakoaliki is a village in the commune of Bassila in the Donga Department of western Benin.-External links:*...
  
  
• Nouhoum Kobéna
  Nouhoum Kobéna
  Nouihoum Kobenan is a Beninese international football player who currently plays in for Madina in the Libyan Premier League.- Career :...
  
  
• Kogé
  Kogé
  Kogé is a small town and arrondissement located in the commune of Adjohoun in the Borgou Department of Benin. Agriculture is the main industry lying in the fertile Ouémé River Valley of southern Benin. In 2008 during the 2008 Benin floods, the area was affected by the flooding of the Ouémé River...
  
  
• Kokoro, Benin
  Kokoro, Benin
  Kokoro is a town in the Collines Department of Benin. It is approximately 195 kilometres from the capital Porto Novo. It is in the southeast of the country...
  
  
• Kokotyi
  Kokotyi
  Kokotyi is a village in the commune of Bassila in the Donga Department of western Benin.-External links:*...
  
  
• Kokou (god)
  Kokou (god)
  In the Yoruba religion of Benin, a Kokou is one of the most highly feared warrior Undergods. It is the most violent and powerful of the Yoruba spirits and the voodoo rituals surrounding it involves its followers to fall into a deep trance with rapidly beating drums...
  
  
• Antoine Idji Kolawolé
  Antoine Idji Kolawolé
  Antoine Idji Kolawolé is a Beninese politician. He was the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Benin from 1998 to 2003 and the President of the National Assembly from 2003 to 2007....
  
  
• Kominde
  Kominde
  Kominde is a village in the commune of Bassila in the Donga Department of western Benin.-External links:*...
  
  
• Konkoma
  Konkoma
  Konkoma is a village in the commune of Parakou in the Borgou Department of central-eastern Benin. It is located east of Parakou city centre.-External links:*...
  
  
• Christian Akande Kotchoni
  Christian Akande Kotchoni
  Christian Akande Kotchoni is a Beninese international football player who currently plays for Requins de l´Atlantique FC.- Career :...
  
  
• Kouandé
  Kouandé
  Kouandé is a town, arrondissement and commune, located in the Atakora Department of Benin.The commune covers an area of 4500 square kilometres and as of 2002 had a population of 80,261 people. The main town had an estimated 7,127 people in 2008....
  
  
• Maurice Kouandété
  Maurice Kouandété
  Iropa Maurice Kouandété was a military officer and politician in Benin . He was born to Somba parents in the Gaba District of Dahomey. Kouandété enrolled in the army in his late teens. Over the years, he became popular among junior soldiers in the north and gained the contempt of those in the south...
  
  
• Djiman Koukou
  Djiman Koukou
  Djiman Koukou is a Beninese international football player who currently plays in the Liga de Honra for Belenenses on loan from Beira-Mar.- Career :...
  
  
• Kouloumizi
  Kouloumizi
  Kouloumizi is a village in the commune of Bassila in the Donga Department of western Benin.-External links:*...
  
  
• Koumerou
  Koumerou
  Koumerou is a village in the commune of Parakou in the Borgou Department of central-eastern Benin. It is located west of Parakou city centre.-External links:*...
  
  
• Gloria Koussihouede
  Gloria Koussihouede
  Gloria Koussihouede, occasionally listed in results as "M. Koussihouede" is an Olympic swimmer from Benin. She swam at the 2004 and 2008 Olympics.-Results:*2004 Olympics: Women's 100 free, 1:30.90...
  
  
• Koussoukoingou
• Kpartao
  Kpartao
  Kpartao is a village in the commune of Bassila in the Donga Department of western Benin.-External links:*...
  
  
• Kpendi
  Kpendi
  Kpendi is a village in the commune of Bassila in the Donga Department of western Benin. It is located just off the RNIE 3 highway.-External links:*...
  
  
• Kpengla
  Kpengla
  Kpengla was the seventh King of Dahomey. He succeeded Tegbessou, and ruled from 1774 to 1789.Kpengla's reign increased the size of the kingdom. He killed the chief of the Popo people, Agbamou, thus extending the empire into what is currently Togo...
  
  
• Kperou Guera
  Kperou Guera
  Kperou Guera is a village in the commune of Parakou in the Borgou Department of central-eastern Benin. It is located north-west of Parakou city centre.-External links:*...
  
  
• Kpomassè
  Kpomassè
  Kpomassè is a town, arrondissement, and commune in the Atlantique Department of southern Benin. The commune covers an area of 305 square kilometres and as of 2002 had a population of 57,190 people....
  
  
• Kérou
  Kérou
  Kérou is a town, arrondissement and commune located in the Atakora Department of Benin.The commune covers an area of 3745 square kilometres and as of 2002 had a population of 62,632 people....
  
  
• Mathieu Kérékou
  Mathieu Kérékou
  Mathieu Kérékou, was President of Benin from 1972 to 1991 and again from 1996 to 2006. After seizing power in a military coup, he ruled the country for 17 years, for most of that time under an officially Marxist-Leninist ideology, before he was stripped of his powers by the National Conference of...
  
  
• Kétou
  Kétou
  Kétou is a Yoruba town, arrondissement, and commune located in the Plateau Department of the Republic of Benin . It is said to have been founded by Ede, son of Sopasan and grandson of Oduduwa , who ruled the Yoruba kingdom of Ile-Ife in present-day Nigeria...
  
  

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• Sacca Lafia
  Sacca Lafia
  Sacca Lafia is a Beninese politician, the President of the Union for Democracy and National Solidarity , and a former First Vice-President of the National Assembly of Benin....
  
  
• Lagbere
  Lagbere
  Lagbere is a village in the commune of Bassila in the Donga Department of western Benin. It is located off the RNIE 3 highway.-External links:*...
  
  
• Lake Nokoué
  Lake Nokoué
  Lake Nokoué is a lake in southern Benin. It is 20 km wide and 11 km long and is located at , north of Cotonou. On the northern edge is the famous water town of Ganvié. Lake Nokoué is an important site for the birds.- External links :*...
  
  
• Lalo, Benin
  Lalo, Benin
  Lalo is a town, arrondissement, and commune in the Kouffo Department of south-western Benin. The commune covers an area of 432 square kilometres and as of 2002 had a population of 79,685 people.-References:...
  
  
• Moussa Latoundji
  Moussa Latoundji
  Moussa Latoundji is a Beninese footballer.-Career:Latoundji played in more than 100 league matches for FC Energie Cottbus.-International career:...
  
  
• L'Aube Nouvelle
  L'Aube Nouvelle
  L'Aube Nouvelle is the national anthem of Benin. Written and composed by Gilbert Jean Dagnon, it was adopted upon independence in 1960.- Lyrics :-External links:**...
  
  
• Law enforcement in Benin
  Law enforcement in Benin
  -Sources:# World Police Encyclopedia, ed. by Dilip K. Das & Michael Palmiotto published by Taylor & Francis. 2004,# World Encyclopedia of Police Forces and Correctional Systems,second edition, Gale., 2006...
  
  
• LGBT rights in Benin
  LGBT rights in Benin
  Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender persons in Benin may face legal issues not experienced by non-LGBT residents. Same-sex sexual acts for both men and women are legal in Benin, though same-sex couples and households headed by same-sex couples are not eligible for the same legal protections...
  
   (Gay rights)
• Leopard
  Leopard
  The leopard , Panthera pardus, is a member of the Felidae family and the smallest of the four "big cats" in the genus Panthera, the other three being the tiger, lion, and jaguar. The leopard was once distributed across eastern and southern Asia and Africa, from Siberia to South Africa, but its...
  
  
• Lete Island
  Lete Island
  Lété Island is an island in the River Niger approx. 16 kilometres long and 4 kilometres wide, located around 40 kilometres from the town of Gaya, Niger. Together with other smaller islands in the River Niger, it was the main object of a territorial dispute between Niger and Benin, which began when...
  
  
• Liro, Benin
  Liro, Benin
  Liro is a village in the commune of Bassila in the Donga Department of western Benin.-External links:*...
  
  
• Literature of Benin
  Literature of Benin
  Beninese literature had a strong oral tradition long before French became the dominant language.Felix Couchoro wrote the first Beninese novel, L'Esclave in 1929.-Notable Beninese writers:*Olympe Bhêly-Quénum*Jean Pliya*Colette Senami Agossou Houeto...
  
  
• Littoral Department
  Littoral Department
  Littoral is one of the twelve departments of Benin, and is divided into 13 arrondissements. It contains just one commune/city, Cotonou, the largest in the country and the economic capital. Littoral is the smallest of the twelve departments. The area is . Littoral was split from the Atlantique...
  
  
• Lokossa
  Lokossa
  Lokossa is an arrondissement, commune, and the capital city of Mono Department in Benin. The name Lokossa translates into English as "underneath the iroko tree"....
  
  
• Gabriel Lozès
  Gabriel Lozès
  Gabriel Lozès was a Beninese politician and diplomat. Replacing Chabi Mama, Lozès became foreign minister in 1964, lasting until 1965.-References:...
  
  

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• Madiatom
  Madiatom
  Madiatom is a village in the commune of Bassila in the Donga Department of western Benin.-External links:*...
  
  
• Hubert Maga
  Hubert Maga
  Coutoucou Hubert Maga was a politician from Dahomey .Dahomey was renamed Benin in 1975. See . He arose on a political scene where one's power was dictated by what region in Dahomey they lived...
  
  
• Mahu
  Mawu
  In Dahomey mythology, Mawu is a creator goddess, associated with the sun and moon. In some myths, she is the twin sister-wife of the male god Lisa; in others, both deities are aspects of the same androgynous or hermaphroditic deity, Mawu-Lisa...
  
  
• Abou Maiga
  Abou Maiga
  Abou Gariga Maiga is a footballer from Benin. He plays for Al-Mesaimeer.- Career :Maiga came to France in 2004. His Beninese club was Requins de l'Atlantique FC.-External links:**...
  
  
• Malanville
  Malanville
  Malanville is a city, arrondissement and commune in the Alibori Department of northeastern Benin, located across the River Niger from Niger. It is known as a centre of cross-border trade and has a major market. Malanville is also a centre for rice-growing. The commune covers an area of 3016 square...
  
  
• Chabi Mama
  Chabi Mama
  Chabi Mama is a former early Beninese politician. Mama became the foreign minister of newly-independent Dahomey in 1959, lasting in that position until 1960. He then returned to that position from 1963 to 1964.-References:...
  
  
• Manafaga
  Manafaga
  Manafaga is a village of western Benin, a country in Western Africa, formerly known as Dahomey . It is located at 10°22'0N 1°31'0E with an altitude of 608 metres ....
  
  
• Manala, Benin
  Manala, Benin
  Manala is a small town in the Zou Department of south-western Benin located 35 kilometres from Abomey. As of 2001 it had a population of 12,000. It covers an area of 135 km2 and the main language is French....
  
  
• Manigri
  Manigri
  Manigri is a village and arrondissement in the commune of Bassila in the Donga Department of western Benin. It is a south-eastern suburb of Bassila town.-External links:*...
  
  
• Matéri
  Matéri
  Matéri is a town, arrondissement and commune in the Atakora Department of north-western Benin. The commune covers an area of 4740 square kilometres and as of 2002 had a population of 83,721 people.-References:...
  
  
• Mborko
  Mborko
  Mborko is a village in the commune of Bassila in the Donga Department of western Benin.-External links:*...
  
  
• Mekrou River
  Mekrou River
  The Mékrou River is a river of Benin and Niger. It flows through the W National Park.A tributary of the Niger River, it forms a border between Benin and Niger. The proposed construction of the Dyondyonga electricity dam on the river has caused some concern amongst environmentalists....
  
  
• Military of Benin
  Military of Benin
  The Benin Armed Forces constitutes the army, navy, air force, and national gendarmerie of Benin. For a number of years, the Belgian Armed Forces have had an active programme of co-operation with Benin, offering training and coaching, donating redundant military equipment and using the county for...
  
  
• Ministry of Economy and Finance, Benin
  Ministry of Economy and Finance, Benin
  The Ministry of Economy and Finance is the government ministry responsible for governing and managing the economy and the financial activity of Benin.The current Minister of Economy and Finance is Monsieur Lawani Soule Mana.-External links:...
  
  
• Ministry of Foreign Affairs and African Integration (Benin)
  Ministry of Foreign Affairs and African Integration (Benin)
  The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and African Integration is the Benin government ministry which oversees the foreign relations of Benin....
  
  
• Mogas 90 FC
  Mogas 90 FC
  Mogas 90 FC is a football club of Benin, playing in the town of Cotonou. They play in the Beninese first division, the Benin Premier League.-Achievements:*Benin Premier League: 3*Benin Cup: 9-Performance in CAF competitions:...
  
  
• Edgar Yves Monnou
  Edgar Yves Monnou
  Edgar Yves Monnou is a Beninese politician. He was the foreign minister of Benin from 1995 to 1996.-References:...
  
  
• Mont Sokbaro
  Mont Sokbaro
  Mont Sokbaro is the highest point of Benin, with an altitude of . It is located on the border between Benin and Togo.-External links: , Geonames.org...
  
  
• Basile Adjou Moumouni
  Basile Adjou Moumouni
  Basile Adjou Moumouni is a Beninese physician. He was active in his native country when the west Africa country of Republic of Benin was called Dahomey. Spending almost his entire adult life outside his native country, he worked for the World Health Organization in Brazzaville. In the 1968...
  
  
• Moundouro
  Moundouro
  Moundouro is a village in the commune of Parakou in the Borgou Department of central-eastern Benin. It is located south of Parakou city centre.-External links:*...
  
  
• Musée en Plein Air de Parakou
  Musée en Plein Air de Parakou
  Musée en Plein Air de Parakou is a museum located approximately 1.5 kilometres south of the centre of the city Parakou, Benin in the suburbs. The museum consists of five circular complexes representing the traditional housing of the local Batanou peoples...
  
  
• Music of Benin
  Music of Benin
  Benin has played an important role in the African music scene, producing one of the biggest stars to come out of the continent in Angélique Kidjo. Post-independence, the country was home to a vibrant and innovative music scene, where native folk music combined with Ghanaian highlife, French...
  
  

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• Mathurin Nago
  Mathurin Nago
  Mathurin Coffi Nago is a Beninese politician who has been the President of the National Assembly of Benin since 2007. He is also President of the Union for Progress and Democracy , and he was Minister of Higher Education and Vocational Training from 2006 to 2007.As a candidate of the Union for...
  
  
• Nana Buluku
  Nana Buluku
  Nana Buluku is the Supreme Deity of the Fon from Dahomey.In Dahomey mythology, Nana Buluku is an androgynous deity creator of the Universe and all that exists in it...
  
  
• Théophile Nata
  Théophile Nata
  Théophile Nata is a Beninese politician and a former member of the Pan-African Parliament.-Education:Nata attended Natitingou Catholic Primary School for four years starting in 1954 and ended in 1960...
  
  
• National Library of Benin
  National Library of Benin
  The Bibliothèque nationale du Bénin is the legal deposit and copyright for Benin. It was created on November 27, 1975, and is based in Porto-Novo.- External links :*...
  
  
• National University of Benin
  National University of Benin
  The National University of Benin is the principal university in the country of Benin. The university was founded in 1970 as the Université du Dahomey. In 1975 the name was changed to Université Nationale du Bénin. Its name is abbreviated UNB....
  
  
• Natitingou
  Natitingou
  Natitingou is a city and commune in north western Benin. It is about 50 km from Benin's Pendjari National Park, where tourists can see West African wildlife during the months of December through June...
  
  
• Natitingou Airport
  Natitingou Airport
  Natitingou Airport is an airport serving Natitingou in north-west Benin....
  
  
• Tempa Ndah
  Tempa Ndah
  Rosalie Tempa Ndah is a Beninese football referee.A hairdresser by profession, she officiated at her first International match in 2003 before going on to referee the 2003 All-Africa Games football final and was an assistant referee at the 2007 FIFA Women's World Cup in China.Ndah was nominated as...
  
  
• Nekinparo
  Nekinparo
  Nekinparo is a village in the commune of Parakou in the Borgou Department of central-eastern Benin. It is located south of Parakou city centre along the RNIE 2 highway.-External links:*...
  
  
• Ngioro
  Ngioro
  Ngioro is a village in the commune of Bassila in the Donga Department of western Benin.-External links:*...
  
  
• Ngmellang
  Ngmellang
  Ngmellang is a village in the commune of Bassila in the Donga Department of western Benin.-External links:*...
  
  
• Niala, Benin
  Niala, Benin
  Niala is a village in the commune of Bassila in the Donga Department of western Benin. It is located near the border with Togo.-External links:*...
  
  
• Niger River
  Niger River
  The Niger River is the principal river of western Africa, extending about . Its drainage basin is in area. Its source is in the Guinea Highlands in southeastern Guinea...
  
  
• Nikki, Benin
  Nikki, Benin
  Nikki is a city, arrondissement, and commune located in the Borgou Department of Benin. The commune covers an area of 3171 square kilometres and as of 2002 had a population of 99,251 people.-References:...
  
  
• Nikikperou
  Nikikperou
  Nikikperou is a village in the commune of Parakou in the Borgou Department of central-eastern Benin. It is located north-west of Parakou city centre.-External links:*...
  
  
• N’Dali
  N’Dali
  N'Dali is a city and arrondissement in the north of Benin, and the capital of the Commune of N'Dali in the Borgou Department. The commune covers an area of 3748 square kilometres and as of 2002 had a population of 67,379 people.In 2008 there were an estimated 16,941 people living in the main town...
  
  

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• Odokoriko
  Odokoriko
  Odokoriko is a village in the commune of Bassila in the Donga Department of western Benin.-External links:*...
  
  
• Odola
  Odola
  Odola is a village in the commune of Bassila in the Donga Department of western Benin.-External links:*...
  
  
• Office de Radiodiffusion et Télévision du Bénin
  Office de Radiodiffusion et Télévision du Bénin
  Office de Radiodiffusion et Télévision du Bénin ' is a the mainstream terrestrial television channel and radio operator in Benin. It has its headquarters in Cotonou....
  
  
• Ogi (cereal ferment)
  Ogi (cereal ferment)
  Ogi is a fermented cereal porridge from West Africa, typically made from maize, sorghum, or millet. Traditionally, the grains are soaked in water for up to three days, before wet milling and sieving to remove husks. The filtered cereal is then allowed to ferment for up to three days until sour...
  
  
• Ogougouworo
  Ogougouworo
  Ogougouworo is a village in the commune of Bassila in the Donga Department of western Benin.-External links:*...
  
  
• Simon Ifede Ogouma
  Simon Ifede Ogouma
  Simon Ifede Ogouma is a Beninese politician. He was the foreign minister of Benin from 1980 to 1982.-References:...
  
  
• Ogoun
  Ogoun
  In the Yoruba and Haitian traditional belief system, Ogun is a orisha and loa who presides over iron, hunting, politics and war. He is the patron of smiths, and is usually displayed with a number of attributes: a machete or sabre, rum and tobacco...
  
  
• Mouritala Ogunbiyi
  Mouritala Ogunbiyi
  Mouritala Ogunbiyi is a Nigeria-born, Beninese football midfielder. He currently plays in France for Nîmes Olympique....
  
  
• Moussa Okanla
  Moussa Okanla
  Moussa Okanla is a Beninese diplomat. Okanla was appointed as Minister of Foreign Affairs in the government named on June 17, 2007, and was replaced by Jean-Marie Ehouzou on 22 October 2008....
  
  
• Okouta-Boussa
  Okouta-Boussa
  Okouta-Boussa is a village in the commune of Bassila in the Donga Department of western Benin.-External links:*...
  
  
• Okpedie
  Okpedie
  Okpedie is a village in western Benin. It is located in Bantè commune in the Collines Department.Nearby towns and villages include Alekpo , Pepelou , Kikon , Atokou , Noiamo , Keon , Amou , Kafingbe , Gbede and Malomi ..-External links:*...
  
  
• Assogba Oké
  Assogba Oké
  Assogba Oké was a Beninese politician and diplomat. Replacing Chabi Mama, Oké became foreign minister in 1960, lasting until 1962. Oké died in 1973....
  
  
• Jonas Okétola
  Jonas Okétola
  Jonas Okétola is a Nigeria-Beninese former footballer. He last played for Thanda Royal Zulu.-Career:The South Africa Soccer Association assessed a two-year ban on Okétola in January 2009, as a result of a doping violation...
  
  
• Wassiou Oladipupo
• Oscar Olou
  Oscar Olou
  Oscar Olou is a Beninese international football player. Currently, he plays in the Championnat de France amateur for SO Romorantin. He formerly played for Séwé Sports and Mogas 90.- External links :* *...
  
  
• Razak Omotoyossi
  Razak Omotoyossi
  Razak Omotoyossi is a Nigerian-born Beninese footballer who plays for Egyptian club Zamalek and also for the Benin national football team....
  
  
• Pierre Osho
  Pierre Osho
  Pierre Osho is a Beninese political figure. He was the Minister of Foreign Affairs from April 1996 to May 1998, then Minister of Defense from May 1998 to January 2006, when he resigned....
  
  
• Ouaké
  Ouaké
  Ouaké is a town, arrondissement, and commune in the Donga Department of western Benin. The commune covers an area of 663 square kilometres and as of 2002 had a population of 45,836 people.-References:...
  
  
• Ouémé River
  Ouémé River
  The Ouémé River is a river in the countries of Benin and Nigeria. It flows into the Atlantic Ocean near the large city of Cotonou, Benin .Also known as the Weme River, this river has its source in the Atakora Mountains of Benin...
  
  
• Ouidah
  Ouidah
  Ouidah , also Whydah or Juda, is a city on the Atlantic coast of Benin.The commune covers an area of 364 square kilometres and as of 2002 had a population of 76,555 people.-History:...
  
  
• Ouidah Museum of History
  Ouidah Museum of History
  The Ouidah Museum of History is an historical museum in Ouidah, Benin.-External links:*...
  
  
• Ouinhi
  Ouinhi
  Ouinhi is a town, arrondissement, and commune in the Zou Department of south-western Benin. The commune covers an area of 483 square kilometres and as of 2002 had a population of 38,319 people....
  
  
• Ouroungourou
  Ouroungourou
  Ouroungourou is a village in the commune of Parakou in the Borgou Department of central-eastern Benin. It is located north-west of Parakou city centre.-External links:*...
  
  
• Outline of Benin
  Outline of Benin
  thumb|The location of [[Benin]]thumb|An enlargeable map of the [[Republic of Benin]]The Republic of Benin is a sovereign country located in West Africa. Benin borders Togo to the west, Nigeria to the east and Burkina Faso and Niger to the north; its short coastline to the south leads to the Bight...
  
  
• Abdoulaye Ouzerou
  Abdoulaye Ouzerou
  Abdoulaye Ouzérou is a Beninese international football player who currently plays for Buffles du Borgou FC.- Career :Ouzerou began his career with Energie FC and signed in 2007 with Buffles FC...
  
  
• Ouèssè
  Ouèssè
  Ouèssè is a town, arrondissement, and commune in the Collines Department of central Benin.The commune covers an area of 3200 square kilometres and as of 2002 had a population of 96,850 people.-References:...
  
  

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• Parakou
  Parakou
  Parakou is the largest city in eastern Benin, with an estimated population of around 188,853 people, and capital of the Borgou Department. The mayor as of 2008 was Samou Seidou Adambi and administratively the commune of Parakou makes up one of Benin's 77 communes.-Economy:Parakou lies on the main...
  
  
• Parakou Airport
  Parakou Airport
  Parakou Airport is an airport serving Parakou in Benin....
  
  
• Pendjari National Park
  Pendjari National Park
  The Pendjari National Park lies in north western Benin, adjoining the Arli National Park in Burkina Faso. Named for the Pendjari River, the national park is known for its wildlife and his home to some of the last populations of big game like elephants, West African lions, hippopotamuses, buffalo...
  
  
• Penelan
  Penelan
  Penelan is a village in the commune of Bassila in the Donga Department of western Benin.-External links:*...
  
  
• Penessoulou
  Penessoulou
  Pénéssoulou is a village and arrondissement in the commune of Bassila in the Donga Department of western Benin. It is located on the RMIE 3 highway.-External links:*...
  
  
• People's Republic of Benin
  People's Republic of Benin
  The People's Republic of Benin was a socialist state located in the Gulf of Guinea on the African continent, which would become present-day Benin. The People's Republic was established on November 30, 1975, shortly after the 1972 coup d'état in the Republic of Dahomey...
  
  
• Pepekino
  Pepekino
  Pepekino is a village in the commune of Parakou in the Borgou Department of central-eastern Benin. It is located east of Parakou city centre.-External links:*...
  
  
• Phla–Pherá languages
• Jean Pliya
  Jean Pliya
  - Life :Born in what was then Dahomey, Pliya was educated at the University of Dakar and then the University of Toulouse. He graduated from the second in 1957 and in 1959 returned to his homeland to teach. He went on to hold ministerial positions in the Benin government.- Work :His work often...
  
  
• José Pliva
  José Pliva
  José Pliya is an actor, stage director, and playwright from Benin. In 2003 he won the Young Writers' Award from the Académie française.-References:...
  
  
• Pobé
  Pobé
  Pobè is a city and arrondissement located in the Plateau Department of Benin.The commune covers an area of 400 square kilometres and as of 2002 had a population of 82,910 people....
  
  
• Porga
  Porga
  Porga is a town located in the Atakora Department of Benin.The Porga Airport serves Porga....
  
  
• Porga Airport
  Porga Airport
  Porga Airport is an airport serving Porga in Benin....
  
  
• Porto-Novo
  Porto-Novo
  Porto-Novo is the official capital of the West African nation of Benin, and was the capital of French Dahomey. The commune covers an area of 110 square kilometres and as of 2002 had a population of 223,552 people.Porto-Novo is a port on an inlet of the Gulf of Guinea, in the southeastern portion...
  
  
• Prekete
  Prekete
  Prekete is a village in the commune of Bassila in the Donga Department of western Benin.-External links:*...
  
  
• Public holidays in Benin
  Public holidays in Benin
  -Movable holidays:The following holidays are public holidays but the date on which each occurs varies, according to its corresponding calendar, and thus has no set date. In order in which they occur:...
  
  
• Pèrèrè
  Pèrèrè
  Pèrèrè is a town, arrondissement, and commune in the Borgou Department of eastern Benin. The commune covers an area of 2017 square kilometres and as of 2002 had a population of 42,891 people.-References:...
  
  
• Péhonko
  Péhonko
  Péhunco or Péhonko is a town, arrondissement and commune located in the Atakora Department of Benin. The commune covers an area of 1900 square kilometres and as of 2002 had a population of 55,082 people.-References:...
  
  
• Pépépétérou
  Pépépétérou
  Pépépétérou is a village in the commune of Parakou in the Borgou Department of central-eastern Benin. It is located south-west of Parakou city centre.-External links:*...
  
  

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• Florent Raimy
  Florent Raimy
  Florent Raimy is a Beninese professional footballer currently playing for Maltese Premier League side Marsaxlokk, where he plays as a midfielder.- International :Raimy played in 2005 FIFA World Youth Championship...
  
  
• Rassemblement Démocratique du Dahomé
  Rassemblement Démocratique du Dahomé
  The Rassemblement Démocratique du Dahomé was a political party of Dahomey . It was named and run by Hubert Maga....
  
  
• Red star
  Red star
  A red star, five-pointed and filled, is an important ideological and religious symbol which has been used for various purposes, such as: state emblems, flags, monuments, ornaments, and logos.- Symbol of communism :...
  
  
• Religion in Benin
  Religion in Benin
  According to the 2002 census, 27.1 percent of the population of Benin is Roman Catholic, 24.4 percent Muslim, 17.3 percent Vodun, 5 percent Celestial Christian, 3.2 percent Methodist, 7.5 percent other Christian, 6 percent other traditional local religious groups, 1.9 percent other religious...
  
  
• Republic of Dahomey
  Republic of Dahomey
  The Republic of Dahomey was established on December 11, 1958, as a self-governing colony within the French Community. Prior to attaining autonomy it had been French Dahomey, part of the French Union...
  
  
• Requins de l'Atlantique FC
  Requins de l'Atlantique FC
  Requins de l'Atlantique Football Club is a football club of Benin, playing in the town of Cotonou. They play in the Beninese first division, the Benin Premier League.-Achievements:*Benin Premier League: 3*Benin Cup: 5...
  
  
• Sylvain Remy
  Sylvain Remy
  Sylvain Remy is a former Beninese football player, who last played for Clermont.-International career:He was part of the Beninese 2004 African Nations Cup team, who finished bottom of their group in the first round of competition, thus failing to secure qualification for the...
  
  
• Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cotonou
  Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cotonou
  The Archdiocese of Cotonou is the Metropolitan See for the Ecclesiastical province of Cotonou in Benin.-History:* 1883.06.26: Established as Apostolic Prefecture of Dahomey from the Apostolic Vicariate of Benin Coast, Nigeria...
  
  
• Roman Catholic Diocese of Abomey
  Roman Catholic Diocese of Abomey
  The Roman Catholic Diocese of Abomey is a diocese located in the city of Abomey in the Ecclesiastical province of Cotonou in Benin.-History:* April 5, 1963: Established as Diocese of Abomey from the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Cotonou and Diocese of Porto Novo-Leadership:* Bishops of Abomey **...
  
  
• Roman Catholic Diocese of Dassa-Zoumé
  Roman Catholic Diocese of Dassa-Zoumé
  The Roman Catholic Diocese of Dassa–Zoumé is a diocese located in the city of Dassa-Zoumé in the Ecclesiastical province of Cotonou in Benin. The diocese is currently a vacant see .-Leadership:* Bishops of Dassa-Zoumé...
  
  
• Roman Catholic Diocese of Djougou
  Roman Catholic Diocese of Djougou
  The Roman Catholic Diocese of Djougou is a diocese located in the city of Djougou in the Ecclesiastical province of Cotonou in Benin.-Leadership:* Bishops of Djougou ** Bishop Paul Kouassivi Vieira -References:*...
  
  
• Roman Catholic Diocese of Kandi
  Roman Catholic Diocese of Kandi
  The Roman Catholic Diocese of Kandi is a diocese located in the city of Kandi in the Ecclesiastical province of Parakou in Benin.-Leadership:* Bishops of Kandi ** Bishop Clet Feliho...
  
  
• Roman Catholic Diocese of Lokossa
  Roman Catholic Diocese of Lokossa
  The Roman Catholic Diocese of Lokossa is a diocese located in the city of Lokossa in the Ecclesiastical province of Cotonou in Benin.-History:* March 11, 1968: Established as Diocese of Lokossa from the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Cotonou-Leadership:...
  
  
• Roman Catholic Diocese of N’Dali
  Roman Catholic Diocese of N’Dali
  The Roman Catholic Diocese of N’Dali is a diocese located in the city of N’Dali in the Ecclesiastical province of Parakou in Benin.-History:* December 22, 1999: Established as Diocese of N’Dali from the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Parakou-Leadership:...
  
  
• Roman Catholic Diocese of Natitingou
  Roman Catholic Diocese of Natitingou
  The Roman Catholic Diocese of Natitingou is a diocese located in the city of Natitingou in the Ecclesiastical province of Cotonou in Benin.-History:* February 10, 1964: Established as Diocese of Natitingou from the Apostolic Prefecture of Parakou...
  
  
• Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Parakou
  Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Parakou
  The Archdiocese of Parakou is the Metropolitan See for the Ecclesiastical province of Parakou in Benin.-History:* 1948.05.13: Established as Apostolic Prefecture of Parakou from the Apostolic Prefecture of Niamey, Niger...
  
  
• Roman Catholic Diocese of Porto Novo
  Roman Catholic Diocese of Porto Novo
  The Roman Catholic Diocese of Porto Novo is a diocese located in the city of Porto Novo in the Ecclesiastical province of Cotonou in Benin.-History:* April 5, 1954: Established as Apostolic Vicariate of Porto Novo from Apostolic Vicariate of Ouidah...
  
  
• Achille Rouga
  Achille Rouga
  Rachid Achille Rouga is a Beninese international footballer who plays for Avrankou Omnisport FC.-Career:The Young French-based midfielder was on the books of Stade Rennais F.C., but has never played a senior match. He left in Summer 2008 Rennes and joined to F.C. Flers. He left F.C...
  
  
• Zomahoun Idossou Rufin
  Zomahoun Idossou Rufin
  Zomahoun Idossou Rufin , popularly known as Zomahon , is a Beninese foreign personality in Japan....
  
  

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• Sakouna
  Sakouna
  Sakouna is a village in the commune of Bassila in the Donga Department of western Benin.-External links:*...
  
  
• Sakouna-Neugbawaperoun
  Sakouna-Neugbawaperoun
  Sakouna-Neugbawaperoun is a village in the commune of Bassila in the Donga Department of western Benin.-External links:*...
  
  
• Sakété
  Sakété
  Sakété is a city located in the Plateau Department of Benin. The commune covers an area of 432 square kilometres and as of 2002 had a population of 70,604 people....
  
  
• Zul Kifl Salami
  Zul Kifl Salami
  Zul Kifl Salami is a politician from Benin. He was a minister in the PRPB government. He holds a doctorate in economics.He was elected as an Islamic Development Bank Executive Director in 2003 on a three-year term, with responsibility for: Algeria, Benin, Mozambique, Syria, Palestine and Yemen.On...
  
  
• Sanro
  Sanro
  Sanro is a village in the commune of Parakou in the Borgou Department of central-eastern Benin. It is located west of Parakou city centre.-External links:*...
  
  
• Saramanga
  Saramanga
  Saramanga is a village in the commune of Bassila in the Donga Department of western Benin.-External links:*...
  
  
• Savalou
  Savalou
  Savalou is a city located in the Collines Department of Benin. The commune covers an area of 2674 square kilometres and as of 2002 had a population of 104,749 people. -External links:*...
  
  
• Savi
  Savi
  Savi was the capital of the Kingdom of Whydah prior to its capture by the forces of Dahomey in 1727.Prior to the conquest of the city it had a circumference of about four miles...
  
  
• Savé
  Savé
  Savé is a city in Benin, lying on the Cotonou-Parakou railway and the main north-south road. It is known for its local boulders, popular with climbers.The commune covers an area of 2228 square kilometres and as of 2002 had a population of 67,753 people....
  
  
• Savé Airport
  Savé Airport
  Savé Airport is an airport serving Savé in Benin....
  
  
• Second Franco-Dahomean War
  Second Franco-Dahomean War
  The Second Franco-Dahomean War, which raged from 1892 to 1894, was a major conflict between the French Third Republic, led by General Alfred-Amédée Dodds, and the Kingdom of Dahomey under King Béhanzin....
  
  
• Segboroué
• Orou Gabé Orou Sego
  Orou Gabé Orou Sego
  Orou Gabé Orou Sego is a member of the Pan-African Parliament from Benin, beginning in 2004.-References:...
  
  
• Seh-Dong-Hong-Beh
  Seh-Dong-Hong-Beh
  Seh-Dong-Hong-Beh was a leader of the Dahomey Amazons. In 1851, she led an all-female army consisting of 6,000 warriors against the Egba fortress of Abeokuta.-Source:*...
  
  
• Noel Seka
  Noel Seka
  Arnaud Noël Séka is a Beninese international football player who plays professionally in Oman for Al-Nasr as a defender. He formerly played for Requins in Benin, US Créteil-Lusitanos in France, and FC Fyn in Denmark....
  
  
• Senouorou
  Senouorou
  Senouorou is a village in the commune of Parakou in the Borgou Department of central-eastern Benin. It is located north-east of Parakou city centre.-External links:*...
  
  
• Ismaël Tidjani Serpos
  Ismaël Tidjani Serpos
  -References:...
  
  
• Stéphane Sessegnon
  Stéphane Sessegnon
  Stéphane Sessègnon is Beninese football player of Ivorian heritage who currently plays for English club Sunderland in the Premier League. He is a Benin international having starred for the nation at both the 2008 and 2010 editions of the Africa Cup of Nations...
  
  
• Setto
  Setto
  Setto is a town and arrondissement in the Djidja commune of the Zou Department of Benin....
  
  
• Shakpana
  Shakpana
  In Dahomey mythology, Shakpana is the divinity of smallpox. He inflicted insanity and disease on humans.The equivalent in Yoruba mythology is Sopona, and in Orisha, Babalu Aye....
  
  
• Seïdou Mama Sika
  Seïdou Mama Sika
  Seïdou Mama Sika was the Minister of the Interior of Benin from February 9, 2005 until April 2006. He attended the Lycée Technique in Coulibaly. He became an air brigade general in 1999.-References:...
  
  
• Sinendé
  Sinendé
  Sinendé is a town, arrondissement, and commune in the Borgou Department of central Benin. The commune covers an area of 2289 square kilometres and as of 2002 had a population of 63,373 people.-References:...
  
  
• Félicien Singbo
  Félicien Singbo
  Félicien Houenou Singbo is a Beninese football player who plays for Benin national football team. In 2003, he received a French passport.- Career :...
  
  
• Benoît Sinzogan
  Benoît Sinzogan
  Benoît Sinzogan is a Beninese military officer and politician, best known for leading his country's gendarmerie in the late 1960s. He was a member of the Fon ethnic group, which dominated the Beninese army from 1965 to 1967...
  
  
• Société Beninoise de Gaz
  Société Beninoise de Gaz
  Société Beninoise de Gaz is a natural gas company of Benin....
  
  
• Société Nationale de Commercialisation des Produits Pétroliers
  Société Nationale de Commercialisation des Produits Pétroliers
  Société Nationale de Commercialisation des Produits Pétroliers is a supplier of petroleum and gas products in Benin. The company was established in 4 December 1974 as a state owned enterprise after nationalization and merger of Beninese daughter companies of BP, Total S.A., Agip, Texaco, Shell,...
  
  
• Christophe Soglo
  Christophe Soglo
  Christophe Soglo was a Beninese military officer and political leader and one of the most important figures in Benin's period of political instability and frequent, though usually bloodless, coups during the 1960s.-Biography:...
  
  
• Ganiou Soglo
  Ganiou Soglo
  Ganiou Soglo is a Beninese politician of the Benin Rebirth Party , currently serving in the government as Minister of Culture, Literacy, and the Promotion of National Languages. He is the son of former President Nicéphore Soglo and brother of Léhady Soglo.Soglo is the youngest son of Nicéphore...
  
  
• Léhady Soglo
  Léhady Soglo
  Léhady Vinagnon Soglo is a Beninese politician.Born in Paris, Soglo is the son of Nicéphore Soglo, who was President of Benin from 1991 to 1996. He was the candidate of the Benin Rebirth Party in the March 2006 presidential election, in which his father was barred from running due to a maximum...
  
  
• Nicéphore Soglo
  Nicéphore Soglo
  Nicéphore Dieudonné Soglo is a Beninois politician who was Prime Minister of Benin from 1990 to 1991 and President from 1991 to 1996. He has been the Mayor of Cotonou since 2003.-Biography:Soglo was born in Togo...
  
  
• Rosine Vieyra Soglo
  Rosine Vieyra Soglo
  -References:...
  
  
• Saturnin Soglo
  Saturnin Soglo
  Saturnin Soglo is a Beninese politician. He was the foreign minister of Benin from 1992 to 1993, serving under his brother president Nicéphore Soglo.-References:...
  
  
• Sokoumeno
  Sokoumeno
  Sokoumeno is a village in the commune of Parakou in the Borgou Department of central-eastern Benin. It is located south of Parakou city centre.-External links:*...
  
  
• Sokouno
  Sokouno
  Sokouno is a village in the commune of Parakou in the Borgou Department of central-eastern Benin. It is located south-east of Parakou city centre on the RNIE 6 road.-External links:*...
  
  
• Songhay languages
  Songhay languages
  The Songhay, Songhai, or Songai languages are a group of closely related languages/dialects centered on the middle stretches of the Niger River in the west African states of Mali, Niger, Benin, Burkina Faso, and Nigeria. They have been widely used as a lingua franca in that region ever since the...
  
  
• Sonoumo
  Sonoumo
  Sonoumo is a village in the commune of Parakou in the Borgou Department of central-eastern Benin. It is located north of Parakou city centre.-External links:*...
  
  
• Sota River
  Sota River
  The Sota is a river of northern Bénin flowing through the departments of Borgou and Alibori. It is a tributary of the Niger River. The river is approximately 250 km in length and covers a basin area of 15,000 km2 and flows through towns such as Malanville....
  
  
• Souri
  Souri
  Souri is a town in the Alibori Department of Benin....
  
  
• Sourou, Benin
  Sourou, Benin
  Sourou is a village in the commune of Parakou in the Borgou Department of central-eastern Benin. It is located west of Parakou city centre.-External links:*...
  
  
• Paul-Émile de Souza
  Paul-Émile de Souza
  Colonel Paul-Émile de Souza was a Beninese army officer and political figure. He was chairman of the Directory of Dahomey from December 13, 1969 to May 7, 1970.-Military career:...
  
  
• Stade Charles de Gaulle
  Stade Charles de Gaulle
  Stade Charles de Gaulle is a multi-use stadium in Porto-Novo, Benin. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is used as the home stadium of AS Dragons FC de l'Ouémé, Aiglons FC. The stadium has a capacity of 15,000 people....
  
  
• Stade Municipal de Parakou
  Stade Municipal de Parakou
  Stade Municipal de Parakou is a multi-use stadium in Parakou, Benin. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home ground of Dynamo Unacob FC de Parakou and Buffles du Borgou FC of the Benin Premier League. The stadium has a capacity of 8,000 spectators.-External links:*...
  
  
• Stade Municipale (Porto-Novo)
  Stade Municipale (Porto-Novo)
  Stade Municipale is a multi-use stadium in Porto-Novo, Benin. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home ground of AS Porto Novo of the Benin Premier League. The stadium has a capacity of 20,000 spectators.-External links:*...
  
  
• Stade Quartier Akpakpa
  Stade Quartier Akpakpa
  Stade Quartier Akpakpa is a stadium in Contonou, Benin. It holds 12,000 people....
  
  
• Stade René Pleven d'Akpakpa
  Stade René Pleven d'Akpakpa
  Stade René Pleven d'Akpakpa is a multi-use stadium in Cotonou, Benin. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is used as the home stadium of Requins de l'Atlantique FC. The stadium has a capacity of 10,000 people....
  
  
• Stade de l'Amitié
  Stade de l'Amitié
  Stade de l'Amitie or Friendship Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium in Cotonou, Benin. It is currently used for football matches and also has facilities for athletics. The stadium has a capacity of 35,000 people.-External links:* at...
  
  
• Samuel Emmanuel Suka
  Samuel Emmanuel Suka
  Samuel Emmanuel Suka is a retired Beninese football player who last plays for Liberty Professionals.-International career:...
  
  
• Lazare Sèhouéto
  Lazare Sèhouéto
  Lazare Maurice Sèhouéto is a Beninese politician. Under President Mathieu Kérékou, he served as Minister of Commerce, Industry, Community Development, and the Promotion of Employment from May 2001 to June 2003, and as Minister of Agriculture, Husbandry, and Fishing from June 2003 to February 2005...
  
  
• Sèmè-Kpodji
  Sèmè-Kpodji
  Sèmè-Kpodji is a town, arrondissement, and commune in the Ouémé Department of south-eastern Benin. The commune covers an area of 250 square kilometres and as of 2002 had a population of 115,238 people.-References:...
  
  
• Ségbana
  Ségbana
  Ségbana is a town, arrondissement and commune located in the Alibori Department of Benin.The commune covers an area of 4471 square kilometres and as of 2002 had a population of 52,639 people.-Geography:...
  
  
• Sô-Ava
  Sô-Ava
  Sô-Ava is a town, arrondissement, and commune in the Atlantique Department of southern Benin. The commune covers an area of 218 square kilometres and as of 2002 had a population of 76,315 people.-References:...
  
  

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• Tabayorourou
  Tabayorourou
  Tabayorourou is a village in the commune of Parakou in the Borgou Department of central-eastern Benin. It is located south-west of Parakou city centre.-External links:*...
  
  
• Tanguiéta
  Tanguiéta
  Tanguiéta is a town, arrondissement and commune located in the Atakora Department of Benin.The commune covers an area of 5465 square kilometres and as of 2002 had a population of 54,719 people...
  
  
• Tankaro
  Tankaro
  Tankaro is a village in the commune of Parakou in the Borgou Department of central-eastern Benin. It is located west of Parakou city centre.-External links:*...
  
  
• Tankaro Ga
  Tankaro Ga
  Tankaro Ga is a village in the commune of Parakou in the Borgou Department of central-eastern Benin. It is located west of Parakou city centre.-External links:*...
  
  
• Benoît Tardieu
  Benoît Tardieu
  Benoît Tardieu Verdenet is a Beninese international football player who currently plays for the reserve team of Clermont Foot.- Early career :...
  
  
• Daniel Tawéma
  Daniel Tawéma
  Daniel Tawéma is a Beninese politician. During the regime of Mathieu Kérékou, he became Deputy Director of the Civil Cabinet in April 1979 and served as Director of the Cabinet from 1983 to 1989. From August 1989 to March 1990, he was Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation. Tawéma was a...
  
  
• Tchaourou
  Tchaourou
  Tchaourou is a commune, arrondissement, and city located in the Borgou Department of Benin, a country in Western Africa, formerly known as Dahomey . It is the birthplace of current Beninese president Yayi Boni...
  
  
• Tchatchou
  Tchatchou
  Tchatchou is a town and arrondissement located in the commune of Tchaourou in the Borgou Department of Benin....
  
  
• Tchembere
  Tchembere
  Tchembere is a village in the commune of Bassila in the Donga Department of western Benin. It is located near the border with Togo.-External links:*...
  
  
• Oumar Tchomogo
• Seidath Tchomogo
  Seidath Tchomogo
  Seidath Kenabe Tchomogo is a Beninese midfielder who plays for East Riffa Club.Tchomogo was part of the Beninese 2004 African Nations Cup team. He also played at the 2005 FIFA World Youth Championship in the Netherlands.-References:...
  
  
• Tegbessou
  Tegbessou
  Tegbessou was the sixth King of Dahomey. He succeeded Agadja, and ruled from 1740 to 1774.Tegbessou's reign was characterized by internal intrigues and a failed foreign policy; he killed many coup-plotters and political enemies, refused to pay tribute to the Yorubas, and lost many battles in the...
  
  
• Telecommunications in Benin
• Teougourou Gando
  Teougourou Gando
  Teougourou Gando is a village in the commune of Parakou in the Borgou Department of central-eastern Benin. It is located south-west of Parakou city centre.-External links:*...
  
  
• Albert Teveodjré
  Albert Teveodjré
  Albert Teveodjré is a Beninese writer and politician. He was Information Minister of Dahomey from 1960 to 1963.-Early life:...
  
  
• Tiakpartia
  Tiakpartia
  Tiakpartia is a village in the commune of Bassila in the Donga Department of western Benin. It is located near the border with Togo.-External links:*...
  
  
• Tian, Benin
  Tian, Benin
  Tian is a village in the commune of Parakou in the Borgou Department of central-eastern Benin. It is located north-west of Parakou city centre.-External links:*...
  
  
• Tiatiala
  Tiatiala
  Tiatiala is a village in the commune of Bassila in the Donga Department of western Benin.-External links:*...
  
  
• Vladimir Timoshenko
  Vladimir Timoshenko
  Vladimir Semyonovich Timoshenko is a career diplomat and is a former ambassador of the Russian Federation to Benin.In December 2002, Timoshenko was appointed as Ambassador of Russia to Benin, with concurrent accreditation to Togo, and held this appointment until his retirement on 30 June...
  
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• Tinekonparou
  Tinekonparou
  Tinekonparou is a village in the commune of Parakou in the Borgou Department of central-eastern Benin. It is located east of Parakou city centre.-External links:*...
  
  
• Toffo
  Toffo
  Toffo is a town and commune in the Atlantique Department of southern Benin. The commune covers an area of 515 square kilometres and as of 2002 had a population of 74,717 people.-References:...
  
  
• Togbota
  Togbota
  Togbota is a small town and arrondissement located in the commune of Adjohoun in the Borgou Department of Benin. Agriculture is the main industry lying in the fertile Ouémé River Valley of southern Benin. In 2008 during the 2008 Benin floods, the area was affected by the flooding of the Ouémé River...
  
  
• Togo Mountains
  Togo Mountains
  The Togo Mountains is a mountain range which stretches across the central region of the West African country of Togo and across the eastern and western borders of that country into Ghana and Benin. In Ghana, the range is also known as the Akwapim Hills, and in Benin it is also known as the Atakora...
  
  
• Tony Toklomety
  Tony Toklomety
  Tony Toklomety is a Beninese football player who plays for Enyimba International F.C..-Career:Toklomety previously played for Maccabi Netanya F.C., Postel Sport FC and MŠK Žilina....
  
  
• Tonnerre d'Abomey FC
  Tonnerre d'Abomey FC
  Tonnerre d'Abomey FC are a Beninese football club based in Abomey. They currently play in the Benin Premier League.- Current Players 2009/10 :-Performance in CAF competitions:*CAF Champions League: 1 appearance...
  
  
• Tori-Bossito
  Tori-Bossito
  Tori-Bossito is a town, arrondissement, and commune in the Atlantique Department of southern Benin. The commune covers an area of 263 square kilometres and as of 2002 had a population of 44,569 people.-References:...
  
  
• Toucountouna
  Toucountouna
  Toucountouna is a town, arrondissement and commune in the Atakora Department of north-western Benin. The commune covers an area of 1600 square kilometres and as of 2002 had a population of 30,154 people.-References:...
  
  
• Tourou
  Tourou
  For the Japanese stone lantern, see tōrō. Tourou is a village in the commune of Parakou in the Borgou Department of central-eastern Benin. It is located west of Parakou city centre on the RNIE 6 highway.-External links:*...
  
  
• Touroumini
  Touroumini
  Touroumini is a village in the commune of Bassila in the Donga Department of western Benin.-External links:*...
  
  
• Toviklin
  Toviklin
  Toviklin is a town, arrondissement, and commune in the Kouffo Department of south-western Benin. The commune covers an area of 120 square kilometres and as of 2002 had a population of 60,910 people.-References:...
  
  
• Trade unions in Benin
  Trade unions in Benin
  Trade unions in Benin operate in relative freedom, with approximately 75% of the formal sector being unionized. There are, however, concerns expressed by the International Labour Organization and the International Trade Union Confederation about the discrepancies between the government's Labour...
  
  
• Bio Aï Traoré
  Bio Aï Traoré
  Bio Aï Traoré is a Beninese international football player who currently plays in Benin for Panthères FC.- International :...
  
  
• Safradine Traoré
  Safradine Traoré
  Safradine Traoré is a Beninese international football player who currently plays for Buffles FC.- Career :Traoré began his career with Buffles FC and was promoted to the first team in 2005.- International :...
  
  

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• United Nations Security Council Resolution 147
  United Nations Security Council Resolution 147
  United Nations Security Council Resolution 147, adopted unanimously on August 23, 1960, after examining the application of the Republic of Dahomey for membership in the United Nations, the Council recommended to the General Assembly that the Republic of Dahomey be admitted.-References:*...
  
  
• United States Ambassador to Benin
  United States Ambassador to Benin
  The Kingdom of Dahomey was an overseas possession of France—part of French West Africa—until 1958. In that year Dahomey became an autonomous republic, and gained full independence in 1960. The United States immediately recognized Dahomey and began the process of initiating diplomatic relations. A...
  
  
• UTA Flight 141
  UTA Flight 141
  UTA Flight 141 was a charter flight operated by Union des Transports Aériens de Guinée.On 25 December 2003 the airplane crashed in the Bight of Benin, killing 151 of the 163 occupants, most of them Lebanese....
  
  

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• W National Park
  W National Park
  The W National Park is a major national park in West Africa around a meander in the River Niger shaped like a "W". The park includes areas of the three countries Niger, Benin and Burkina Faso, and is governed by the three governments...
  
  
• Wagasi
  Wagasi
  Wagasi is a type of Beninese cows milk cheese. It is a speciality of northern Benin in Africa and is commonly made by the Fulani people. It is sold in abundance in cities such as Parakou....
  
  
• Wansirou
  Wansirou
  Wansirou is a village in the commune of Parakou in the Borgou Department of central-eastern Benin. It is located north of Parakou city centre.-External links:*...
  
  
• Water supply and sanitation in Benin
  Water supply and sanitation in Benin
  Water supply and sanitation in Benin has been subject to considerable progress since the 1990s, in particular in rural areas, where coverage is higher than in many other African countries, and almost all development partners follow a national demand-responsive strategy, which has been adopted in 1992...
  
  
• Weria
  Weria
  Weria is a village in the commune of Parakou in the Borgou Department of central-eastern Benin. It is located east of Parakou city centre.-External links:*...
  
  
• West African Gas Pipeline
  West African Gas Pipeline
  The West African Gas Pipeline is a natural gas pipeline to supply gas from Nigeria's Escravos region of Niger Delta area to Benin, Togo and Ghana...
  
  
• West African Vodun
• Wetietie
  Wetietie
  Wetietie is a village in the commune of Bassila in the Donga Department of western Benin.-External links:*...
  
  
• Wildlife of Benin
  Wildlife of Benin
  Benin has varied resources of wildlife comprising flora and fauna, which are primarily protected in its two contiguous protected areas of the Pendjari National Park and W National Park. The former is known for many species of avifauna and the latter park is rich in mammals and predators...
  
  
• Salomon Wisdom
  Salomon Wisdom
  Michel Wisdom Salomon Aka is a Beninese international football player.- Career :Aka began his career by Soleil FC and was in July 2006 transferred to Slovak Superliga champion MŠK Žilina. He was a half year by MŠK Žilina, plays his first game and was than loaned out to FK Matador Púchov in January...
  
  
• Wore, Benin
  Wore, Benin
  Wore is a village in the commune of Parakou in the Borgou Department of central-eastern Benin. It is located north of Parakou city centre.-External links:*...
  
  
• Worora
  Worora
  Worora is a village in the commune of Parakou in the Borgou Department of central-eastern Benin. It is located west of Parakou city centre along the RNIE 6 highway.-External links:*...
  
  

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• Za-Kpota
  Za-Kpota
  Za-Kpota or Zakpota is a town, arrondissement, and commune in the Zou Department of south-western Benin. It is located 153 kilometres north of Cotonou and 33 kilometres east of Abomey .-History:...
  
  
• Zangbeto
  Zangbeto
  Zangbeto are the traditional voodoo guardians of the night in the Yoruba religion of Benin and Togo which are known as the "Nightwatchmen". Similar to Egunguns, they are highly revered and act as an unofficial police force patrolling the streets and watching over people and tracking down criminals...
  
  
• Zangnanado
  Zangnanado
  Zagnanado or Zangnanado is a town, arrondissement, and commune in the Zou Department of southern-central Benin. It is located 47 kilometres from Abomey and 165 kilometres north of Cotonou...
  
  
• Émile Derlin Zinsou
  Emile Derlin Zinsou
  Emile Derlin Zinsou is a Beninese political figure who was the President of Dahomey from 17 July 1968 until 10 December 1969, supported by the military regime that took power in 1967. Zinsou also served in the French senate from 1955 to 1958. He was previously Minister of Foreign Affairs from...
  
  
• Abraham Zinzindohoue
  Abraham Zinzindohoue
  Abraham Zinzindohoue is Beninese lawyer and politician. He was the Minister of Justice of Benin from 10 April 2006 to 17 June 2007.He was President of the Supreme Court of Benin and Senior Vice-Pres-References:...
  
  
• Zogbodomey
  Zogbodomey
  Zogbodomey or Zogbodomè is a town, arrondissement, and commune in the Zou Department of south-western Benin. The commune covers an area of 600 square kilometres and as of 2002 had a population of 72,338 people.-Administrative divisions:...
  
  
• Zou River
  Zou River
  The Zou is a river of south-western Benin.The river banks are inhabited in parts by the Mahi people near the Togo border....
  
  
• Zè
  Zè
  Zè is a town, arrondissement, and commune in the Atlantique Department of southern Benin. The commune covers an area of 543 square kilometres and as of 2002 had a population of 72,814 people.-References:...
  
  

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