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Atakora Department

Atakora is the northwesternmost department of . Externally it borders to the west and to the north; internally it borders the departments of , and .
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  • Type: State with 587,000 residents
  • Description: department of Benin
  • Also known as: “Atakora”, “Attacora”, “Attagora”, “Département d’Atacora”, “Département de l’ Atakora”, “Département du Nord-Ouest”, “Northwest”, “Province de l’ Atacora”, and “Province de l’ Atakora”

Atakora Department

Latitude
10.7161° or 10° 42′ 58″ north
Longitude
1.5332° or 1° 31′ 59″ east
Population
587,000
Elevation
377 metres (1,237 feet)
Open location code
7F23PG8M+C7
Open­Street­Map ID
node 2240079695
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­state
Geo­Names ID
2395524
Wiki­data ID
Q29154
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yoruba—“Atakora Department” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “أتاكورا”
  • Arabic: “إدارة أتاكورا”
  • Asturian: “Atakora”
  • Azerbaijani: “Ataqora departamenti”
  • Basque: “Atakora Departamentua”
  • Basque: “Atakora”
  • Belarusian: “Атакара (дэпартамент)”
  • Belarusian: “Атакара (дэпартамэнт)”
  • Belarusian: “Атакара”
  • Bengali: “আতাকোরা বিভাগ”
  • Breton: “Atakora”
  • Bulgarian: “Атакора”
  • Bulgarian: “Департамент Атакора”
  • Catalan: “Atakora”
  • Cebuano: “Atakora Department”
  • Chinese: “阿塔科拉省”
  • Danish: “Atakora”
  • Dutch: “Atacora”
  • Esperanto: “Departemento Atakora”
  • Finnish: “Atakora”
  • Fon: “Atacora”
  • Fon: “Atakola”
  • French: “Atacora”
  • French: “Atakora”
  • German: “Atakora”
  • German: “BJ-AK”
  • Greek: “Ατακορά”
  • Gujarati: “અટકોરા વિભાગ”
  • Hebrew: “אטאקורה”
  • Hindi: “अटकोरा विभाग”
  • Hungarian: “Atakora”
  • Indonesian: “Atakora”
  • Indonesian: “Departemen Atakora”
  • Italian: “Atakora”
  • Italian: “dipartimento di Atakora”
  • Italian: “Dipartimento di Atakora”
  • Japanese: “アタコラ県”
  • Kannada: “ಅಟಕೊರಾ ಇಲಾಖೆ”
  • Korean: “아타코라주”
  • Latvian: “Atakoras departaments”
  • Lithuanian: “Atakoros departamentas”
  • Malay: “Atakora Department”
  • Marathi: “अटकोर विभाग”
  • Mazanderani: “آتاکورا”
  • Northern Frisian: “Atakora Department”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Atakora”
  • Norwegian: “Atakora”
  • Persian: “استان آتاکورا”
  • Persian: “ناحیه آتاکورا”
  • Polish: “Departament Atakora”
  • Portuguese: “Atakora”
  • Romanian: “Departamentul Atakora”
  • Russian: “Атакора”
  • Sinhala: “අටකොරා දෙපාර්තමේන්තුව”
  • Slovenian: “Atacora”
  • Slovenian: “BJ-AK”
  • Spanish: “Atakora”
  • Spanish: “Departamento de Atakora”
  • Swahili: “Atakora”
  • Swedish: “Atacora”
  • Swedish: “Atakora”
  • Tajik: “Вилояти Атакора”
  • Tamil: “அட்கோரா துறை”
  • Telugu: “అటాకోరా డిపార్ట్మెంట్”
  • Telugu: “అటాకోరా విభాగం”
  • Thai: “อะตาโกรา”
  • Turkish: “Atakora Departmanı”
  • Ukrainian: “Атакора”
  • Urdu: “اتاکورا ڈیپارٹمنٹ”
  • Urdu: “اتاکورا محکمہ”
  • Vietnamese: “Atakora”
  • Wu Chinese: “阿塔科拉省”
  • Yoruba: “Apá Atakora”
  • Yoruba: “Atakora Department”

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