Country

🇧🇯 Benin

Benin, capital Porto-Novo, 14,111,034 people. 5 cities on the OuterView globe with their news, events and weather, every fact with its source.

• Capital

  Porto-Novo
• People

  14,111,034
• Region

  Western Africa, Africa
• Currency

  West African CFA franc (Fr)
• Languages

  French
• Dialling code

  +229
• Area

  112,622 km²

Next public holidays

• National Day

  2026-11-30
• Christmas Day

  2026-12-25
• St. Stephen's DayBoxing Day

  2026-12-26
• New Year's Day

  2027-01-01

Holidays from Nager.Date, MIT.

Cities right now

• Cotonou 679k
• Abomey-Calavi 386k
• Porto-Novo 264k
• Parakou 255k
• Godomè 253k

Each city page: the news, this week's events, the weather, local businesses and groups, refreshed every 30 minutes. Cities of 150,000 people or more.

Learn in Cotonou

• Les Cours Sonou
• Pigier Bénin
• Institut de Multimédia Appliqué
• Adonai Institute of Management Studies
• Institut International de Management de Cotonou
• College d'Enseignement Général Le Nokoué
• African University of Technology and Management
• Université Catholique de l'Afrique de l'Ouest - Benin
• Université IRGIB Africa
• University of Science and Technology of Benin

Universities and colleges within 30 km of Cotonou, from Wikidata, CC0.