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Zou Department

Zou is one of the twelve departments of Benin, named for the Zou River which travels through the department before emptying into the Atlantic in the south of the country.
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  • Type: State with 629,000 residents
  • Description: department of Benin
  • Also known as: “Center”, “Département de Zou”, “Département du Centre”, “Département du Zou”, “Province du Zou”, and “Zou”

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Dan.

Town
is an arrondissement in the Zou department of . It is an administrative division under the jurisdiction of the commune of . According to the population census conducted by the Institut National de la Statistique Benin on February 15, 2002, the arrondissement had a total population of 10,356.

Zou Department

Latitude
7.2834° or 7° 17′ 0″ north
Longitude
2.1228° or 2° 7′ 22″ east
Population
629,000
Elevation
152 metres (499 feet)
Open location code
6FV474MF+94
Open­Street­Map ID
node 2240080044
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­state
Geo­Names ID
2390719
Wiki­data ID
Q29172
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yoruba—“Zou Department” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “إدارة زو”
  • Arabic: “زو”
  • Asturian: “Zou”
  • Azerbaijani: “Zu (departament)”
  • Azerbaijani: “Zu departamenti”
  • Basque: “Zou”
  • Belarusian: “Зу”
  • Bengali: “জু বিভাগ”
  • Breton: “Zou”
  • Bulgarian: “Департамент Зу”
  • Bulgarian: “Зу”
  • Catalan: “Departament de Zou”
  • Catalan: “Zou”
  • Cebuano: “Zou Department”
  • Chinese: “祖省”
  • Danish: “Zou”
  • Dutch: “Zou”
  • Esperanto: “Departemento Zou”
  • Finnish: “Zou”
  • Fon: “Zu”
  • French: “Zou”
  • German: “BJ-ZO”
  • German: “Zou”
  • Greek: “Ζου”
  • Gujarati: “પૂર્વોનિયા”
  • Hebrew: “מחוז זאו”
  • Hebrew: “מחוז זו”
  • Hindi: “झाऊ विभाग”
  • Hungarian: “Zou”
  • Indonesian: “Departemen Zou”
  • Italian: “dipartimento di Zou”
  • Italian: “Dipartimento di Zou”
  • Italian: “Zou”
  • Japanese: “ズー県”
  • Kannada: “ಝೌ ವಿಭಾಗ”
  • Korean: “주주”
  • Latvian: “Zu departaments”
  • Lithuanian: “Zu departamentas”
  • Malay: “Zou Department”
  • Marathi: “झोऊ विभाग”
  • Mazanderani: “زو (استان)”
  • Mazanderani: “زو”
  • Northern Frisian: “Zou Department”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Zou”
  • Norwegian: “Zou”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Departament de Zou”
  • Persian: “استان زو”
  • Polish: “Departament Zou”
  • Portuguese: “Zou”
  • Romanian: “Departamentul Zou”
  • Russian: “Зу”
  • Sinhala: “සෝඋ දෙපාර්තමේන්තුව”
  • Slovenian: “BJ-ZO”
  • Slovenian: “Zou”
  • Spanish: “Departamento de Zou”
  • Spanish: “Zou”
  • Swahili: “Zou”
  • Swedish: “Zou”
  • Tajik: “Вилояти Зу”
  • Tamil: “சாவ் துறை”
  • Telugu: “జోవ్ డిపార్ట్మెంట్”
  • Telugu: “జోవ్ విభాగం”
  • Thai: “ซูว ดีพาทเม้น”
  • Turkish: “Zou Departmanı”
  • Ukrainian: “Зу”
  • Ukrainian: “Регіон Зу”
  • Urdu: “زوؤ ڈیپارٹمنٹ”
  • Urdu: “زوؤ محکمہ”
  • Uzbek: “Zu (Benin departamenti)”
  • Uzbek: “Zu”
  • Vietnamese: “Khu vực hành chính Zou”
  • Wu Chinese: “祖省”
  • Yoruba: “Apá Zou”
  • Yoruba: “Zou Department”

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