Benin
Southern Benin
Zou Department

Abomey

Abomey, or Agbome, is the capital of the of . The commune of Abomey covers an area of 142 square kilometres and, as of 2025, it has a population of 96,974 people.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Dahomey.

Castle
The Kingdom of was a West African kingdom located within the present-day Republic of that existed from approximately 1600 until 1904. It developed on the Abomey Plateau among the Fon people in the early 17th century and became a regional power…

Abomey

Latitude
7.182° or 7° 10′ 55″ north
Longitude
1.9936° or 1° 59′ 37″ east
Population
100,000
Elevation
228 metres (748 feet)
Open location code
6FV35XJV+RF
Open­Street­Map ID
node 313015845
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2395915
Wiki­data ID
Q189685
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In Other Languages

From Akan to Yoruba—“Abomey” goes by many names.
  • Akan: “Abomey”
  • Arabic: “أبومية”
  • Arabic: “أبوميه”
  • Armenian: “Աբոմեյ”
  • Asturian: “Abomey”
  • Azerbaijani: “Abomey”
  • Basque: “Abomey”
  • Belarusian: “Абамей”
  • Belarusian: “Абамэй”
  • Bengali: “অ্যাবোমে”
  • Breton: “Abomey”
  • Bulgarian: “Абомей”
  • Catalan: “Abomey”
  • Cebuano: “Abomey (kapital sa departamento sa Benin)”
  • Cebuano: “Abomey”
  • Central Kurdish: “ئابۆمێی”
  • Chinese: “阿波美”
  • Croatian: “Abomey”
  • Czech: “Abomey”
  • Danish: “Abomey”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Abomey”
  • Dutch: “Abomei”
  • Dutch: “Abomey”
  • Esperanto: “Abomejo”
  • Esperanto: “Abomeo”
  • Estonian: “Abomey”
  • Finnish: “Abomei”
  • Finnish: “Abomey”
  • Fon: “Agbomɛ”
  • Fon: “Agbǒmɛ”
  • French: “Abomey”
  • French: “Agbomey”
  • French: “Ville d’Abomey”
  • Galician: “Abomei”
  • Galician: “Abomey”
  • Georgian: “აბომეი”
  • German: “Abomay”
  • German: “Abome”
  • German: “Abomey”
  • Greek: “Αμπομέ”
  • Gujarati: “અબોમી”
  • Hebrew: “אבומה”
  • Hindi: “अबोमी का राज महल”
  • Hungarian: “Abomey”
  • Ido: “Abomey”
  • Indonesian: “Abomey”
  • Italian: “Abomey”
  • Italian: “Palazzi reali di Abomey”
  • Japanese: “アボメ”
  • Japanese: “アボメー”
  • Japanese: “アボメイ”
  • Kannada: “ಅಬೊಮಿ”
  • Korean: “아보메”
  • Latvian: “Abomeja”
  • Lithuanian: “Abomėja”
  • Lithuanian: “Abomėjus”
  • Malagasy: “Abomey”
  • Malay: “Abomey”
  • Marathi: “अबोमेय”
  • Mingrelian: “აბომეი”
  • Northern Frisian: “Abomey”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Abomey”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kongepalassene i Abomey”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Abomey”
  • Norwegian: “Abomey”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Abomey”
  • Persian: “آبومی، بنین”
  • Persian: “آبومی”
  • Polish: “Abomey”
  • Portuguese: “Abomé”
  • Portuguese: “Abomei”
  • Portuguese: “Abomey”
  • Portuguese: “Agbome”
  • Portuguese: “Palácios reais de abomei”
  • Portuguese: “Palácios Reais de Abomei”
  • Romanian: “Abomey”
  • Russian: “Абоме”
  • Russian: “Абомей”
  • Russian: “Агбоме”
  • Scots: “Abomey”
  • Serbian: “Abomej”
  • Serbian: “Royal Palaces of Abomey”
  • Serbian: “Абомеј”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Abomey”
  • Shona: “Abomey”
  • Silesian: “Abomey”
  • Sinhala: “අබෝමේ”
  • Slovak: “Abomey”
  • Slovenian: “Abomey”
  • South Azerbaijani: “آبومی، بنین”
  • South Azerbaijani: “آبومی”
  • Spanish: “Abomey”
  • Swahili: “Abomey”
  • Swedish: “Abomey”
  • Swedish: “De kungliga palatsen i Abomey”
  • Talysh: “Abomej”
  • Talysh: “Abomey”
  • Tamil: “அபோமெ”
  • Telugu: “అబోమే”
  • Thai: “Abomey”
  • Thai: “อาบอแม”
  • Thai: “แอโบเมย์”
  • Turkish: “Abomey”
  • Ukrainian: “Абомей”
  • Urdu: “ابومے”
  • Vietnamese: “Abomey”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Abomey”
  • Wu Chinese: “阿波美”
  • Yoruba: “Abomey”

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