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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  • State with about 629,000 residents
  • Description: department of Benin
  • Also known as
    “Center”
    “Département de Zou”
    “Département du Centre”
    “Département du Zou”
    “Province du Zou”
    “Zou”

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Dan.
is an arrondissement in the Zou department of .

Zou Department

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Latitude
7.2834° or 7° 17′ 0″ north
Longitude
2.1228° or 2° 7′ 22″ east
Open location code
6FV474MF+94
Open­Street­Map ID
node 2240080044
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­state
Geo­Names ID
2390719
Wiki­data ID
Q29172

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In Other Languages

From Amharic to Yoruba—“Zou Department” goes by many names.
  • Amharic: “ዙ”
  • 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: “Zou”
  • Fon: “Zu”
  • French: “Zou”
  • Galician: “Zou”
  • Georgian: “ზუს დეპარტამენტი”
  • German: “BJ-ZO”
  • German: “Zou”
  • Greek: “Ζου”
  • Gujarati: “પૂર્વોનિયા”
  • Hausa: “Zou”
  • Hebrew: “מחוז זאו”
  • Hebrew: “מחוז זו”
  • Hindi: “झाऊ विभाग”
  • Hungarian: “Zou”
  • Indonesian: “Departemen Zou”
  • Italian: “Dipartimento di Zou”
  • Italian: “Zou”
  • Japanese: “ズー県”
  • Javanese: “Zou”
  • Kannada: “ಝೌ ವಿಭಾಗ”
  • Kazakh: “Зу”
  • Kirghiz: “Зу”
  • Korean: “주주”
  • Latvian: “Zu departaments”
  • Lithuanian: “Zu departamentas”
  • Malay: “Zou Department”
  • Marathi: “झोऊ विभाग”
  • Mazanderani: “زو (استان)”
  • Mazanderani: “زو”
  • Minangkabau: “Departemen Zou”
  • Northern Frisian: “Zou Department”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Zou”
  • Norwegian: “Zou”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Departament de Zou”
  • Oromo: “Zou”
  • Panjabi: “ਜ਼ੂ”
  • Persian: “استان زو”
  • Polish: “Departament Zou”
  • Portuguese: “Zou”
  • Pushto: “زو”
  • Romanian: “Departamentul Zou”
  • Russian: “Зу”
  • Sinhala: “සෝඋ දෙපාර්තමේන්තුව”
  • Slovenian: “BJ-ZO”
  • Slovenian: “Zou”
  • Somali: “Zou”
  • Spanish: “Departamento de Zou”
  • Spanish: “Zou”
  • Swahili: “Zou”
  • Swedish: “Zou”
  • Tajik: “Вилояти Зу”
  • Tamil: “சாவ் துறை”
  • Tatar: “Зу”
  • Telugu: “జోవ్ డిపార్ట్మెంట్”
  • Telugu: “జోవ్ విభాగం”
  • Thai: “ซูว ดีพาทเม้น”
  • Turkish: “Zou Departmanı”
  • Turkish: “Zou”
  • 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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