Western Africa
Benin
Republic of Benin
Core facts
- Capital
- Porto-Novo
- Population
- 13,224,860
- Area
- 112,622 km^2
- Country code
- BEN
- Flag emoji
- 🇧🇯
- UN member
- Yes
- Independent
- Yes
- Population density
- 117.4 per km^2
- Calling code
- +229
Culture and society
- Languages
- French
- Religions
- Christianity (49.0%), Islam (42.0%), Folk religions (6.0%), Unaffiliated (2.0%), Other religions (100.0%)
- Native names
- Bénin
- Demonyms (EN)
- Beninese / Beninese
- Start of week
- monday
- Driving side
- right
- Timezones
- UTC+01:00
- Alternative spellings
- BJ, Republic of Benin, République du Bénin
Geography and map
- Continents
- Africa
- Coordinates
- 9.50, 2.25
- Landlocked
- No
- Borders
- BFA, NER, NGA, TGO
- Border countries count
- 4
Economy and identity
- Currencies
- West African CFA franc (Fr)
- Top-level domain
- .bj
- FIFA code
- BEN
- Capital coordinates
- 6.48, 2.62
- Postal code format
- N/A
- Gini index
- 47.8 (2015)
- Coat of arms
