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Donga Department

Donga is one of the twelve departments of Benin; its capital is , the fourth largest city in the country. The department of Donga was created in 1999 when it was split off from Atakora Department.
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  • Type: State with 384,000 residents
  • Description: department of Benin
  • Also known as: “Département de Donga”, “Département de la Donga”, and “Donga”

Donga Department

Latitude
9.268° or 9° 16′ 5″ north
Longitude
1.7171° or 1° 43′ 1″ east
Population
384,000
Elevation
396 metres (1,299 feet)
Open location code
6FX37P98+5R
Open­Street­Map ID
node 2240079699
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­state
Geo­Names ID
2597274
Wiki­data ID
Q29161
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yoruba—“Donga Department” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “إدارة دونجا”
  • Arabic: “إدارة دونغا”
  • Arabic: “دونغا”
  • Asturian: “Donga”
  • Azerbaijani: “Donqa departamenti”
  • Basque: “Donga”
  • Belarusian: “Данга”
  • Bengali: “ডংগা বিভাগ”
  • Breton: “Donga”
  • Bulgarian: “Департамент Донга”
  • Bulgarian: “Донга”
  • Catalan: “Donga”
  • Cebuano: “Donga (departamento)”
  • Cebuano: “Donga”
  • Chinese: “峡谷省”
  • Chinese: “峽谷省”
  • Danish: “Donga”
  • Dutch: “Donga”
  • Esperanto: “Departemento Donga”
  • Finnish: “Donga”
  • Fon: “Dɔnga”
  • French: “Donga”
  • Galician: “Donga”
  • Georgian: “დონგის დეპარტამენტი”
  • German: “BJ-DO”
  • German: “Donga”
  • Greek: “Ντονγκά”
  • Gujarati: “ડોંગા વિભાગ”
  • Hindi: “डोंगा विभाग”
  • Hungarian: “Donga”
  • Indonesian: “Departemen Donga”
  • Indonesian: “Donga”
  • Italian: “dipartimento di Donga”
  • Italian: “Dipartimento di Donga”
  • Japanese: “ドンガ県”
  • Kannada: “ಡೊಂಗಾ ಇಲಾಖೆ”
  • Korean: “동가주”
  • Latvian: “Dongas departaments”
  • Lithuanian: “Dongos departamentas”
  • Malay: “Donga Department”
  • Marathi: “डोंगा विभाग”
  • Mazanderani: “دونگا”
  • Northern Frisian: “Donga Department”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Donga”
  • Norwegian: “Donga”
  • Persian: “استان دونگا”
  • Polish: “Departament Donga”
  • Portuguese: “Donga”
  • Romanian: “Departamentul Donga”
  • Russian: “Донга”
  • Sinhala: “ඩොන්ගා දෙපාර්තමේන්තුව”
  • Slovenian: “BJ-DO”
  • Slovenian: “Donga”
  • Spanish: “Departamento de Donga”
  • Spanish: “Donga”
  • Swahili: “Donga”
  • Swedish: “Donga, Benin”
  • Swedish: “Donga”
  • Tajik: “Вилояти Донга”
  • Tamil: “டோங்கா துறை”
  • Telugu: “డోంగా డిపార్ట్మెంట్”
  • Telugu: “డోంగా విభాగం”
  • Thai: “ดองกา”
  • Turkish: “Donga Departmanı”
  • Ukrainian: “Донга”
  • Ukrainian: “Регіон Донга”
  • Urdu: “دونگا ڈیپارٹمنٹ”
  • Urdu: “دونگا محکمہ”
  • Vietnamese: “Donga”
  • Wu Chinese: “峡谷省 (贝宁)”
  • Wu Chinese: “峡谷省（贝宁）”
  • Wu Chinese: “峡谷省”
  • Yoruba: “Apá Donga”
  • Yoruba: “Donga Department”

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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 “Donga Department”. Photo: Haster, CC BY-SA 4.0.