Place:Benin

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Name
Benin
Alternate names
Bénin     (Getty Vocabulary Program)
Dahomey     (Family History Library Catalog)
French West Africa     (Family History Library Catalog)
Republic of Benin     (Wikipedia)
Type
Nation
Coordinates
9.5°N 2.25°E
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source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
source: Family History Library Catalog
the text in this section is copied from an article in Wikipedia

Benin, officially the Republic of Benin, is a country in Western Africa. It 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 of Benin. Its size is just over 110,000 km² with a population of almost 8,500,000. Its capital is the Yoruba founded city of Porto Novo, but the seat of government is the Fon city of Cotonou. Benin was known as Dahomey until 1975.

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