Atakora Department
department of Benin
Facts
16 propertiesIdentity
- Instance of
- department of Benin
- Official website
- www.gouv.bj
Location
- Coordinate location
- 🗺️ 10.300°, 1.367°[18]
- Shares border with
- Alibori Department, Borgou Department, Donga Department[5][6][7]
Population and size
- Area
- 20499.0
- Elevation above sea level
- 377.0
More facts +8
- Website
- www.gouv.bj
- Located in
- Benin
- Capital
- Natitingou[4]
- Contains the administrative territorial entity
- Boukoumbé, Cobly, Kérou, Kouandé, Matéri, Natitingou, Péhunco, Tanguiéta, Toucountouna[9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17]
- Coordinates
- 🗺️ 10.300°, 1.367°
- Geoshape
- 🗺️ View shape: Benin/Atakora
- Language used
- Nateni, Notre, Mbelime, Waama, Tammari, Dendi, Gourmanchéma, Lama, Yobe, Ngangam, Yom, Bariba, Anufo, Borgu Fulfulde, Berba
- Named after
- Togo Mountains[8]
🏷️ Also known as
en Atakora Department
ar إدارة أتاكورا
da Atakora
de BJ-AK
el Ατακορά
fa ناحیه آتاکورا
fr Atacora
fr Atakora
he אטאקורה
hi अटकोरा विभाग
id Departemen Atakora
id Atakora
it Atakora
it dipartimento di Atakora
ja アタコラ県
ko 아타코라주
pl Departament Atakora
ro Departamentul Atakora
ru Атакора
sv Atakora
🔖 Identifiers · 19
- GND ID
- 4518215-2
- Image (Wikimedia Commons)
- Atakora Benin Batia.jpg ↗
- Bibliothèque nationale de France ID
- 12219230n
- Encyclopædia Universalis ID
- atakora
- FIPS 10-4 (countries and regions)
- BN08
- Freebase ID
- /m/04_5qj
- GNS Unique Feature ID
- -1332282
- GeoNames ID
- 2395524
- Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names ID
- 1000510
- Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID
- atakora
- Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID (former scheme)
- 0005887
- INaturalist place ID
- 9611
Show all 19 identifiers +7
- ISO 3166-2 code
- BJ-AK
- KBpedia ID
- Atakora-ProvinceBenin
- Museum-digital place ID
- 77032
- OpenStreetMap relation ID
- 2845850
- Topic's main category
- Category:Atakora Department
- Who's on First ID
- 85668825
- Yale LUX ID
- place/084608a8-25fe-4fb2-b595-81a6c6f96d80
📚 Sources · 1
- GeoNames CC BY 4.0 — attribution: GeoNames (www.geonames.org), licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Values as shipped.
⛏️ Lake Facts
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PopulationP1082
586,734
2026-09-26
A/ADM1 · BJ
GeoNames (CC BY 4.0)
as of 2026-09-26
where from?
- Source
- GeoNames
- Edition
- 20260926 · as of 2026-09-26
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Credit
- CC BY 4.0 — attribution: GeoNames (www.geonames.org), licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Values as shipped.
- Bronze
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Located in time zoneP421
Africa/Porto-Novo
2026-09-26
A/ADM1 · BJ
GeoNames (CC BY 4.0)
as of 2026-09-26
where from?
- Source
- GeoNames
- Edition
- 20260926 · as of 2026-09-26
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Credit
- CC BY 4.0 — attribution: GeoNames (www.geonames.org), licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Values as shipped.
- Bronze
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CC BY 4.0 — attribution: GeoNames (www.geonames.org), licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Values as shipped.
🔗 Connections
Contained subdivisions 15
Natitingou,
Pendjari National Park,
Tanguiéta,
Sota River,
Kouandé,
Boukoumbé,
Kérou,
Péhunco
+7 more
Contains the administrative territorial entity 9
Shares border with 3
← Shares border with 3
Capital 1
Country 1
Instance of 1
Located in the administrative territorial entity 1
Named after 1
Topic's main category 1
← Capital of 1
← Category's main topic 1
← Contains the administrative territorial entity 1
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