Ouémé Department
Ouémé is one of the twelve departments of Benin, containing the capital of the country Porto Novo, named for the Ouémé River. It is subdivided into nine communes, each centred at one of the principal towns: Adjarra, Adjohoun, Aguégués, Akpro-Missérété, Avrankou, Bonou, Dangbo, Porto-Novo and Sèmè-Kpodji.
- Type: State with 773,000 residents
- Description: department of Benin
- Also known as: “BJ-OU”, “Departament Oueme”, “Departamentul Oueme”, “Département d’Ouémé”, “Departement de l’Oueme”, “Département du Sud-Est”, “Ouemé”, “Ouémé”, “Province de l’Ouémé”, “Quémé”, “Southeast”, “Департамент Уеме”, “اؤیمے ڈیپارٹمنٹ”, “مقاطعة أويميه”, and “ఓోయెమ్ విభాగం”
- Neighbors: Lagos State and Ogun State
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Dangbo and Zounguè.
Ouémé Department
- Categories: department of Benin and locality
- Location: Benin, West Africa, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
6.6014° or 6° 36′ 5″ north
Longitude
2.5506° or 2° 33′ 2″ east
Population
773,000
Elevation
18 metres (59 feet)
Open location code
6FR4JH22+G6
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
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GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Amharic to Yoruba—“Ouémé Department” goes by many names.
- Amharic: “ውዔሜ”
- Arabic: “إدارة أويميه”
- Asturian: “Ouémé”
- Azerbaijani: “Veme departamenti”
- Basque: “Ouémé”
- Belarusian: “Уэмэ”
- Bengali: “উয়েমে বিভাগ”
- Breton: “Ouémé”
- Bulgarian: “Уеме”
- Catalan: “Ouémé”
- Cebuano: “Département de l’Ouémé”
- Chinese: “韋梅省”
- Chinese: “韦梅省”
- Danish: “Ouémé”
- Dutch: “Ouémé”
- Esperanto: “Departemento Ouémé”
- Finnish: “Ouémé”
- Fon: “Wémè”
- Fon: “Wemɛ”
- French: “Ouémé”
- Galician: “Ouémé”
- Georgian: “უემეს დეპარტამენტი”
- German: “Ouémé”
- Greek: “Ουεμέ”
- Gujarati: “ઓએમે વિભાગ”
- Hausa: “Oueme”
- Hindi: “औउमे विभाग”
- Hungarian: “Ouémé”
- Indonesian: “Departemen Ouémé”
- Italian: “dipartimento di Ouémé”
- Italian: “Dipartimento di Ouémé”
- Japanese: “ウェメ県”
- Javanese: “Oueme”
- Kannada: “ಒಯೆಮೆ ಡಿಪಾರ್ಟ್ಮೆಂಟ್”
- Kazakh: “Уеме”
- Kirghiz: “Уеме”
- Korean: “우에메주”
- Latvian: “Uemes departaments”
- Lithuanian: “Uemės departamentas”
- Malay: “Oueme Department”
- Marathi: “औइमे विभाग”
- Mazanderani: “اومه”
- Minangkabau: “Departemen Ouémé”
- Northern Frisian: “Ouémé Department”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Ouémé”
- Norwegian: “Ouémé”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Dep. de Ouémé”
- Oromo: “Oueme”
- Panjabi: “ਔਮੇ”
- Persian: “استان اومه”
- Polish: “Departament Ouémé”
- Portuguese: “Oueme”
- Portuguese: “Ouémé”
- Pushto: “اوعمه”
- Romanian: “Departamentul Ouémé”
- Russian: “Веме”
- Russian: “Уэме”
- Sinhala: “ඔඑමේ දෙපාර්තමේන්තුව”
- Somali: “Oueme”
- Spanish: “Departamento de Ouémé”
- Spanish: “Ouémé”
- Swahili: “Ouémé”
- Swedish: “Ouémé”
- Tajik: “Вилояти Оуеме”
- Tamil: “வுஏமே துறை”
- Tatar: “Уеме”
- Telugu: “ఓోయెమ్ డిపార్ట్మెంట్”
- Thai: “เขตอูเอเม”
- Turkish: “Ouémé Departmanı”
- Turkish: “Ouémé”
- Ukrainian: “Веме”
- Ukrainian: “Регіон Веме”
- Urdu: “اؤیمے محکمہ”
- Uzbek: “Oueme”
- Vietnamese: “Khu vực hành chính Ouémé”
- Wu Chinese: “韦梅省”
- Yoruba: “Apá Ouémé”
Localities in the Area
Places to explore: Gbéfadji and Agata.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights: Institut de Mathématiques et des Sciences Physiques and Cellule Communale de l’ATDA de Dangbo.
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