Collines Department

Collines is one of the twelve departments of Benin, located in the centre of the country. The department of Collines was created in 1999 when it was split off from .
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  • Type: State with 602,000 residents
  • Description: department of Benin
  • Also known as: “Collines”, “Collines department”, “Département des Collines”, “Département du Collines”, “Департамент Колине”, “إدارة كولين”, “إدارة كولينز”, “کولینز ڈیپارٹمنٹ”, “కాలిన్స్ విభాగం”, and “コリーヌ県”
  • Neighbors: and

Collines Department

Latitude
8.1085° or 8° 6′ 31″ north
Longitude
2.1853° or 2° 11′ 7″ east
Population
602,000
Elevation
189 metres (620 feet)
Open location code
6FW4455P+C4
Open­Street­Map ID
node 2240079698
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­state
Geo­Names ID
2597272
Wiki­data ID
Q29141
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In Other Languages

From Amharic to Yoruba—“Collines Department” goes by many names.
  • Amharic: “ኮሊንስ”
  • Arabic: “إدارة كولاينيس”
  • Arabic: “التلال”
  • Asturian: “Collines”
  • Azerbaijani: “Kollins departamenti”
  • Basque: “Collines”
  • Belarusian: “Калін”
  • Bengali: “কলিন্স বিভাগ”
  • Breton: “Collines”
  • Bulgarian: “Колине”
  • Catalan: “Collines”
  • Cebuano: “Collines Department”
  • Chinese: “丘陵省”
  • Danish: “Collines”
  • Dutch: “Collines”
  • Esperanto: “Departemento Collines”
  • Esperanto: “Montetoj”
  • Finnish: “Collines”
  • Fon: “Collines”
  • Fon: “Sokan”
  • French: “Collines”
  • Galician: “Collines”
  • Georgian: “კოლინის დეპარტამენტი”
  • German: “Collines”
  • Greek: “Κολίν”
  • Gujarati: “કોલિન્સ વિભાગ”
  • Hausa: “Collines”
  • Hindi: “कॉलिंस डिपार्टमेंट”
  • Hungarian: “Collines”
  • Indonesian: “Departemen Collines”
  • Italian: “dipartimento delle Colline”
  • Italian: “Dipartimento delle Colline”
  • Japanese: “コリネス県”
  • Javanese: “Collines”
  • Kannada: “ಕಾಲಿನ್ಸ್ ಇಲಾಖೆ”
  • Kazakh: “Коллин”
  • Kirghiz: “Коллин”
  • Korean: “콜린주”
  • Latvian: “Kolinzas departaments”
  • Lithuanian: “Kalvų departamentas”
  • Malay: “Collines Department”
  • Marathi: “कॉलिन्स विभाग”
  • Mazanderani: “کولینس”
  • Minangkabau: “Departemen Collines”
  • Northern Frisian: “Collines Department”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Collines”
  • Norwegian: “Collines”
  • Oromo: “Collines”
  • Panjabi: “ਕਲੀਨ”
  • Persian: “استان کالینس”
  • Polish: “Departament Collines”
  • Portuguese: “Collines”
  • Pushto: “کولین”
  • Romanian: “Departamentul Collines”
  • Russian: “Коллин”
  • Russian: “Коллинз”
  • Sinhala: “කොලයින්ස් දෙපාර්තමේන්තුව”
  • Somali: “Collines”
  • Spanish: “Collines”
  • Spanish: “Departamento de Collines”
  • Swahili: “Collines (Benin)”
  • Swahili: “Collines”
  • Swedish: “Collines”
  • Tajik: “Вилояти Коллинес”
  • Tamil: “காலின்ஸ் துறை”
  • Tatar: “Коллин”
  • Telugu: “కాలిన్స్ డిపార్ట్మెంట్”
  • Thai: “โกลลีน”
  • Turkish: “Collines Departmanı”
  • Turkish: “Collines”
  • Ukrainian: “Калін”
  • Ukrainian: “Коллін”
  • Urdu: “کولینز محکمہ”
  • Uzbek: “Collines”
  • Vietnamese: “Collines”
  • Wu Chinese: “丘陵省 (贝宁)”
  • Wu Chinese: “丘陵省（贝宁）”
  • Wu Chinese: “丘陵省”
  • Yoruba: “Apá Collines”

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