Bohicon
Bohicon or Gbɔ̀xikɔn is a city in Benin, and a conurbation of Abomey lying 9 kilometres east on the railway line from Cotonou to Parakou, and on Benin's main highway RNIE 2 which joins the RNIE 4.
Bohicon
- Type: City with 170,000 residents
- Description: commune of Zou Department, Benin
- Categories: commune of Benin and locality
- Location: Bohicon, Zou Department, Benin, West Africa, Africa
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Latitude
7.1816° or 7° 10′ 54″ north
Longitude
2.0696° or 2° 4′ 10″ east
Population
170,000
Elevation
166 metres (545 feet)
UN/LOCODE
BJ BOH
Open location code
6FV453J9+MR
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yoruba—“Bohicon” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بوهيكون”
- Cebuano: “Commune of Bohicon”
- Chinese: “博希孔”
- Croatian: “Bohicon”
- Dutch: “Bohicon”
- Finnish: “Bohicon”
- Fon: “Bohicon”
- Fon: “Gbɔ̀xikɔn”
- French: “Bohicon”
- German: “Bohicon”
- Greek: “Μποϊκόν”
- Italian: “Bohicon”
- Japanese: “ボイコン”
- Japanese: “ボヒコン”
- Lithuanian: “Bohikonas”
- Malay: “Bohicon”
- Northern Frisian: “Bohicon”
- Persian: “بوهیکون”
- Polish: “Bohicon”
- Romanian: “Bohicon”
- Russian: “Бохикон”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Bohicon”
- Shona: “Bohicon”
- South Azerbaijani: “بوهیکون، بنین”
- South Azerbaijani: “بوهیکون”
- Spanish: “Bohicon”
- Swahili: “Bohicon”
- Swedish: “Bohicon”
- Tagalog: “Bohicon”
- Urdu: “بوہیکون”
- Waray (Philippines): “Bohicon”
- Yoruba: “Bohicon”
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Localities in the Area
Places to explore: Ahouamè and Agbanwémè.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights: Impact Centre Chrétien campus de Bohicon and Centre de santé de bohicon2.
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