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Mono Department

Mono is one of the twelve departments of Benin, with its capital at . It is named for the Mono River which forms much of the border with . The northern areas of the department were split off to create the newly formed in 1999.
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  • Type: State with 380,000 residents
  • Description: department of Benin
  • Also known as: “Département de Mono”, “Département du Mono”, “Département du Sud-Ouest”, “Mono”, “Province du Mono”, and “Southwest”

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Comè and Oumako.

Town
is a town and arrondissement located in the Mono Department of . The commune covers an area of 163 square kilometres and as of 2012 had a population of 33,507 people.

Town
is an arrondissement in the Mono 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 3,576.

Village
is an arrondissement in the Mono 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 9,814.

Mono Department

Latitude
6.4576° or 6° 27′ 27″ north
Longitude
1.8674° or 1° 52′ 3″ east
Population
380,000
Elevation
61 metres (200 feet)
Open location code
6FR3FV58+2X
Open­Street­Map ID
node 2240025035
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­state
Geo­Names ID
2392716
Wiki­data ID
Q29135
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Satellite Map

Discover Mono Department from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yoruba—“Mono Department” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “إدارة مونو”
  • Arabic: “مونو”
  • Asturian: “Mono”
  • Azerbaijani: “Mono departamenti”
  • Basque: “Mono”
  • Belarusian: “Мано”
  • Bengali: “মনো বিভাগ”
  • Breton: “Mono”
  • Bulgarian: “Департамент Моно”
  • Bulgarian: “Моно”
  • Catalan: “Mono”
  • Cebuano: “Mono”
  • Chinese: “莫诺省”
  • Chinese: “莫諾省”
  • Danish: “Mono (Benin)”
  • Danish: “Mono”
  • Dutch: “Mono”
  • Esperanto: “Departemento Mono”
  • Finnish: “Mono”
  • Fon: “Mɔnɔ”
  • French: “Mono”
  • German: “BJ-MO”
  • German: “Département Mono”
  • German: “Mono”
  • Greek: “Μονό”
  • Gujarati: “મોનો વિભાગ”
  • Hebrew: “מחוז מונו”
  • Hindi: “मोनो विभाग”
  • Hungarian: “Mono”
  • Indonesian: “Departemen Mono”
  • Italian: “dipartimento di Mono”
  • Italian: “Dipartimento di Mono”
  • Italian: “Mono”
  • Japanese: “モノ県”
  • Kannada: “ಮೊನೊ ಇಲಾಖೆ”
  • Korean: “모노주”
  • Latvian: “Mono departaments”
  • Lithuanian: “Mono departamentas”
  • Malay: “Mono Department”
  • Marathi: “मोनो विभाग”
  • Mazanderani: “مونو”
  • Northern Frisian: “Mono Department”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Mono”
  • Norwegian: “Mono”
  • Persian: “استان مونو”
  • Polish: “Departament Mono”
  • Portuguese: “Mono”
  • Romanian: “Departamentul Mono”
  • Russian: “Моно”
  • Sinhala: “මොනෝ දෙපාර්තමේන්තුව”
  • Spanish: “Departamento de Mono”
  • Spanish: “Mono”
  • Swahili: “Mono (Benin)”
  • Swahili: “Mono”
  • Swedish: “Mono, Benin”
  • Swedish: “Mono”
  • Tajik: “Вилояти Моно”
  • Tamil: “மோனோ துறை”
  • Telugu: “మోనో డిపార్ట్మెంట్”
  • Telugu: “మోనో విభాగం”
  • Thai: “กรมโมโน”
  • Turkish: “Mono Departmanı”
  • Ukrainian: “Моно”
  • Ukrainian: “Регіон Моно”
  • Urdu: “مونو ڈیپارٹمنٹ”
  • Urdu: “مونو محکمہ”
  • Vietnamese: “Mono”
  • Wu Chinese: “莫诺省”
  • Yoruba: “Apá Mono”
  • Yoruba: “Mono Department”

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