Benin
Mono Department
Lokossa

Lokossa

Lokossa is an arrondissement, commune, and the capital city of in . The name Lokossa translates into English as "underneath the iroko tree".
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  • Type: City with 110,000 residents
  • Description: commune of Benin
  • Also known as: “Locossa”

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Kpinnou.

Town
is an arrondissement in the 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 7,630. is situated 9 km southeast of Lokossa.

Lokossa

Latitude
6.64585° or 6° 38′ 45″ north
Longitude
1.71714° or 1° 43′ 2″ east
Population
110,000
Elevation
47 metres (154 feet)
Open location code
6FR3JPW8+8V
Open­Street­Map ID
node 2304867251
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2392897
Wiki­data ID
Q219058
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yoruba—“Lokossa” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “لوكوسا”
  • Belarusian: “Лакаса”
  • Belarusian: “Лякаса”
  • Cebuano: “Lokossa (kapital sa departamento)”
  • Cebuano: “Lokossa”
  • Chinese: “洛科薩”
  • Croatian: “Lokossa”
  • Danish: “Lokossa”
  • Dutch: “Lokossa”
  • Esperanto: “Lokossa”
  • Finnish: “Lokossa”
  • Fon: “Lokosa”
  • French: “Lokossa”
  • German: “Lokossa”
  • Greek: “Λοκοσά”
  • Hebrew: “לוקוסה”
  • Hungarian: “Lokossa”
  • Indonesian: “Lokossa”
  • Italian: “Lokossa”
  • Japanese: “ロコッサ”
  • Lithuanian: “Lokosa”
  • Malay: “Lokossa”
  • Northern Frisian: “Lokossa”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Lokossa”
  • Persian: “لوکوسا، بنین”
  • Persian: “لوکوسا”
  • Polish: “Lokossa”
  • Portuguese: “Lokossa”
  • Romanian: “Lokossa”
  • Russian: “Локоса”
  • Russian: “Локосса”
  • South Azerbaijani: “لوکوسا، بنین”
  • South Azerbaijani: “لوکوسا”
  • Spanish: “Lokossa”
  • Swahili: “Lokossa”
  • Swedish: “Lokossa”
  • Ukrainian: “Локосо”
  • Urdu: “لوکوسا”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Lokossa”
  • Yoruba: “Lokossa”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Lokossa”. Photo: Shubert Ciencia, CC BY 2.0.