Plateau Department

Plateau is one of the twelve departments of Benin. The department of Plateau was created in 1999 with an area of 2,835 square kilometres when it was split off from .
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  • Type: State with 436,000 residents
  • Description: department of Benin
  • Also known as: “BJ-PL”, “département du Plateau”, “Département du Plateau”, “Plateau”, “Plateau Departamento”, “Plateaux”, “Департамент Плато”, “Плято (дэпартамэнт)”, “پلیٹیو ڈیپارٹمنٹ”, and “ప్లాటూ విభాగం”
  • Neighbors:

Plateau Department

Latitude
7.1003° or 7° 6′ 1″ north
Longitude
2.6409° or 2° 38′ 27″ east
Population
436,000
Elevation
57 metres (187 feet)
Open location code
6FV44J2R+49
Open­Street­Map ID
node 2240079704
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­state
Geo­Names ID
2597277
Wiki­data ID
Q32108
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In Other Languages

From Amharic to Yoruba—“Plateau Department” goes by many names.
  • Amharic: “ፕላቶ”
  • Arabic: “إدارة بلاتو”
  • Arabic: “إدارة بليتيو”
  • Arabic: “الهضبة”
  • Asturian: “Plateau”
  • Azerbaijani: “Plato departamenti”
  • Basque: “Plateau”
  • Belarusian: “Плато”
  • Belarusian: “Плято”
  • Bengali: “প্লাতেও বিভাগ”
  • Breton: “Plateau”
  • Bulgarian: “Плато”
  • Catalan: “Plateau”
  • Cebuano: “Plateau Department”
  • Chinese: “高原省”
  • Danish: “Plateau (Benin)”
  • Danish: “Plateau”
  • Dutch: “Plateau”
  • Esperanto: “Departemento Altebenaĵo”
  • Esperanto: “Departemento Plateau”
  • Finnish: “Plateau”
  • Fon: “Plateau”
  • Fon: “Plato”
  • French: “Plateau”
  • Galician: “Plateau”
  • Georgian: “პლატოს დეპარტამენტი (ბენინის დეპარტამენტი)”
  • Georgian: “პლატოს დეპარტამენტი”
  • German: “Plateau”
  • Greek: “Πλατώ”
  • Gujarati: “પ્લેટુ વિભાગ”
  • Hausa: “Plateau”
  • Hindi: “पठार विभाग”
  • Hungarian: “Plateau”
  • Indonesian: “Departemen Plateau”
  • Italian: “dipartimento dell’Altopiano”
  • Italian: “Dipartimento dell’Altopiano”
  • Japanese: “プラトー県”
  • Javanese: “Plateu”
  • Kannada: “ಪ್ರಸ್ಥಭೂಮಿ ಇಲಾಖೆ”
  • Kazakh: “Плато”
  • Kirghiz: “Плато”
  • Korean: “플라토주”
  • Latvian: “Plato departaments”
  • Lithuanian: “Plynaukštės departamentas”
  • Malay: “Jabatan Plateau”
  • Marathi: “प्लेटयू विभाग”
  • Mazanderani: “پلاتئو (استان)”
  • Mazanderani: “پلاتئو”
  • Minangkabau: “Departemen Plateau, Benin”
  • Northern Frisian: “Plateau Department”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Plateau”
  • Norwegian: “Plateau”
  • Oromo: “Plateau”
  • Panjabi: “ਪਲਾਟੋ”
  • Persian: “استان پلاتئو”
  • Polish: “Departament Plateau”
  • Portuguese: “Plateau”
  • Pushto: “فلات”
  • Romanian: “Departamentul Plateau”
  • Russian: “Плато”
  • Sinhala: “ප්ලටේඌ දෙපාර්තමේන්තුව”
  • Somali: “Plateau”
  • Spanish: “Departamento de Plateau”
  • Spanish: “Plateau”
  • Swahili: “Plateau (Benin)”
  • Swahili: “Plateau”
  • Swedish: “Plateau, Benin”
  • Swedish: “Plateau”
  • Tajik: “Плато”
  • Tamil: “பிளாடோவ் துறை”
  • Tatar: “Плато”
  • Telugu: “ప్లాటూ డిపార్ట్మెంట్”
  • Thai: “เมืองปลาโต”
  • Turkish: “Plateau Departmanı”
  • Turkish: “Plateau”
  • Ukrainian: “Плато”
  • Ukrainian: “Регіон Плато”
  • Urdu: “پلیٹیو محکمہ”
  • Uzbek: “Plato”
  • Vietnamese: “Khu hành chính Plateau”
  • Wu Chinese: “高原省 (贝宁)”
  • Wu Chinese: “高原省（贝宁）”
  • Wu Chinese: “高原省”
  • Yoruba: “Apá Plateau”

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