South South Nigeria
Edo State
Oredo

Benin City

Benin City is one of the oldest cities in , dating back to pre-colonial times. It was the capital of one of the most advanced and organised kingdoms in Africa before the arrival of the British.
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  • Type: City with 1,150,000 residents
  • Description: capital city of Edo State, Nigeria
  • Also known as: “Bénin”
Photo: Ocsfilms, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Benin City

Latitude
6.3331° or 6° 19′ 59″ north
Longitude
5.6221° or 5° 37′ 20″ east
Population
1,150,000
Elevation
88 metres (289 feet)
IATA airport code
BNI
United Nations Location Code
NG BNI
Open location code
6FR78JMC+6R
Open­Street­Map ID
node 2149000430
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2347283
Wiki­data ID
Q320704
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yoruba—“Benin City” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Benin-stad”
  • Albanian: “Benin”
  • Arabic: “بنين”
  • Arabic: “مدينة بنين”
  • Armenian: “Բենին Սիթի”
  • Asturian: “Benin City”
  • Basque: “Benin City”
  • Bavarian: “Benin City”
  • Bavarian: “Benin Stadt”
  • Bavarian: “Benin-Stadt”
  • Belarusian: “Бенін-Сіці”
  • Belarusian: “Бэнін-Сіці”
  • Bengali: “বেনিন শহর”
  • Bulgarian: “Бенин”
  • Catalan: “Benin City”
  • Cebuano: “Benin City (kapital sa estado)”
  • Cebuano: “Benin City”
  • Chinese: “貝南城”
  • Chinese: “貝寧城”
  • Chinese: “贝宁城”
  • Croatian: “Benin City”
  • Czech: “Benin City”
  • Dagbani: “Benin City”
  • Danish: “Benin City”
  • Dutch: “Benin City”
  • Dutch: “Benin”
  • Esperanto: “Beninurbo”
  • Finnish: “Benin City”
  • Finnish: “Benin”
  • French: “Benin City”
  • French: “Benin”
  • Galician: “Benin City”
  • Georgian: “ბენინ-სითი”
  • German: “Benin City”
  • German: “Benin Stadt”
  • German: “Benin-Stadt”
  • German: “Benin”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Benin City”
  • Greek: “Μπενίν (πόλη)”
  • Gujarati: “બેનિન શહેર”
  • Hausa: “Benin City”
  • Hausa: “Birnin Kazaure”
  • Hausa: “KZR”
  • Hebrew: “בנין (עיר)”
  • Hebrew: “בנין סיטי”
  • Hindi: “बेनिन शहर”
  • Hindi: “बेनिन सिटी”
  • Hungarian: “Benin City”
  • Hungarian: “Beninváros”
  • Icelandic: “Benínborg”
  • Igbo: “Benin City”
  • Igbo: “Obodo Benin”
  • Indonesian: “Benin City”
  • Indonesian: “Kota Benin”
  • Irish: “Cathair Bheinin”
  • Italian: “Benin City”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Benin City”
  • Japanese: “ベニン・シティ”
  • Japanese: “ベニンシティ”
  • Japanese: “ベニンシティー”
  • Japanese: “ベニン市”
  • Kannada: “ಬೆನಿನ್ ನಗರ”
  • Korean: “베닌시티”
  • Latin: “Beninum”
  • Latvian: “Benina”
  • Lithuanian: “Benin City”
  • Lithuanian: “Benin Sitis”
  • Lithuanian: “Beninas”
  • Malay: “Benin City”
  • Malayalam: “ബെനിൻ നഗരം”
  • Marathi: “बेनिन शहर”
  • Marathi: “बेनिन सिटी”
  • Nigerian Pidgin: “Benin City”
  • Northern Frisian: “Benin City”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Benin by”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Benin City”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Benin”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Benin by”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Benin City”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Benin”
  • Norwegian: “Benin by”
  • Norwegian: “Benin City”
  • Ossetian: “Бенин-Сити”
  • Panjabi: “ਬੇਨਿਨ ਸ਼ਹਿਰ”
  • Persian: “بنین”
  • Persian: “شهر بنین”
  • Polish: “Benin City”
  • Polish: “Benin”
  • Polish: “Wielki Benin”
  • Portuguese: “Benim”
  • Portuguese: “Benin City”
  • Portuguese: “Cidade do Benim”
  • Romanian: “Benin City”
  • Russian: “Бенин-Сити”
  • Scots: “Benin Ceety”
  • Serbian: “Бенин Сити”
  • Shona: “Benin City”
  • Sinhala: “බෙනින් නගරය”
  • Slovenian: “Benin City”
  • Slovenian: “Benin”
  • South Azerbaijani: “بنین (شهر)”
  • South Azerbaijani: “بنین”
  • Spanish: “Benin”
  • Spanish: “Benín”
  • Spanish: “Ciudad de Benín”
  • Swahili: “Benin City”
  • Swahili: “Mji wa Benin”
  • Swedish: “Benin City”
  • Tamil: “பெனின் நகரம்”
  • Telugu: “బెనిన్ నగరం”
  • Thai: “Benin City”
  • Thai: “เบนินซิตี”
  • Turkish: “Benin City”
  • Tyap: “A̱gba̱ndang a̱keang Bini”
  • Tyap: “A̱gba̱ndang A̱keang Bini”
  • Tyap: “A̱keang Bini”
  • Tyap: “Binin Siti”
  • Ukrainian: “Бенін-Сіті”
  • Urdu: “بینن شہر”
  • Uzbek: “Benin-siti”
  • Veps: “Benin Siti”
  • Vietnamese: “Thành phố Benin”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Benin (syudad)”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Benin”
  • Wu Chinese: “贝宁城”
  • Yoruba: “Benin City”
  • Yoruba: “Ilu Benin”
  • Yoruba: “Ìlú Benin”
  • Yoruba: “Ilu Ibini”

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