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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: , , , , , , , and .
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  • Type: State with 773,000 residents
  • Description: department of Benin
  • Also known as: “Département d’Ouémé”, “Departement de l’Oueme”, “Département du Sud-Est”, “Ouémé”, “Oueme Department”, “Province de l’Ouémé”, “Quémé”, and “Southeast”
  • Neighbors: and

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Zounguè and Katagon.

Village
is an arrondissement in the Ouémé 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 8,326.

Village
is an arrondissement in the Ouémé department of . It is an administrative division under the jurisdiction of the commune of .

Town
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is an arrondissement in the Ouémé 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 9,802.

Ouémé Department

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
node 2240079703
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­state
Geo­Names ID
2392325
Wiki­data ID
Q29169
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yoruba—“Ouémé Department” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “إدارة أويميه”
  • Arabic: “مقاطعة أويميه”
  • Asturian: “Ouémé”
  • Azerbaijani: “Veme departamenti”
  • Basque: “Ouémé”
  • Belarusian: “Уэмэ”
  • Bengali: “উয়েমে বিভাগ”
  • Breton: “Ouémé”
  • Bulgarian: “Департамент Уеме”
  • Bulgarian: “Уеме”
  • Catalan: “Ouémé”
  • Cebuano: “Département de l’Ouémé”
  • Chinese: “韋梅省”
  • Chinese: “韦梅省”
  • Danish: “Ouémé”
  • Dutch: “Oueme”
  • Dutch: “Ouémé”
  • Esperanto: “Departemento Ouémé”
  • Finnish: “Ouémé”
  • Fon: “Wemɛ”
  • French: “Oueme”
  • French: “Ouémé”
  • Galician: “Ouémé”
  • Georgian: “უემეს დეპარტამენტი”
  • German: “BJ-OU”
  • German: “Ouémé”
  • Greek: “Ουεμέ”
  • Gujarati: “ઓએમે વિભાગ”
  • Hindi: “औउमे विभाग”
  • Hungarian: “Ouémé”
  • Indonesian: “Departemen Ouémé”
  • Italian: “dipartimento di Ouémé”
  • Italian: “Dipartimento di Ouémé”
  • Italian: “Ouémé”
  • Japanese: “ウェメ県”
  • Kannada: “ಒಯೆಮೆ ಡಿಪಾರ್ಟ್ಮೆಂಟ್”
  • Korean: “우에메주”
  • Latvian: “Uemes departaments”
  • Lithuanian: “Uemės departamentas”
  • Malay: “Oueme Department”
  • Marathi: “औइमे विभाग”
  • Mazanderani: “اومه”
  • Northern Frisian: “Ouémé Department”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Ouémé”
  • Norwegian: “Ouémé”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Dep. de Ouémé”
  • Persian: “استان اومه”
  • Polish: “Departament Oueme”
  • Polish: “Departament Ouémé”
  • Portuguese: “Oueme”
  • Portuguese: “Ouémé”
  • Romanian: “Departamentul Oueme”
  • Romanian: “Departamentul Ouémé”
  • Russian: “Веме”
  • Russian: “Уэме”
  • Sinhala: “ඔඑමේ දෙපාර්තමේන්තුව”
  • Spanish: “Departamento de Ouémé”
  • Spanish: “Oueme”
  • Spanish: “Ouemé”
  • Spanish: “Ouémé”
  • Swahili: “Ouémé”
  • Swedish: “Oueme”
  • Swedish: “Ouémé”
  • Tajik: “Вилояти Оуеме”
  • Tamil: “வுஏமே துறை”
  • Telugu: “ఓోయెమ్ డిపార్ట్మెంట్”
  • Telugu: “ఓోయెమ్ విభాగం”
  • Thai: “เขตอูเอเม”
  • Turkish: “Ouémé Departmanı”
  • Ukrainian: “Веме”
  • Ukrainian: “Регіон Веме”
  • Urdu: “اؤیمے ڈیپارٹمنٹ”
  • Urdu: “اؤیمے محکمہ”
  • Vietnamese: “Khu vực hành chính Ouémé”
  • Wu Chinese: “韦梅省”
  • Yoruba: “Apá Ouémé”
  • Yoruba: “Ouémé Department”

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