Cotonou

Cotonou is the largest city in and the country's primary port of entry for visitors. The city is in the , on the coastline.
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  • City with about 780,000 residents
  • …has the IATA airport code COO
  • Description: city in Benin, seat of the government
  • Also known as
    “Appi”
    “Catonou”
    “Kútɔ̀nú”
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Fondation Zinsou and 6th arrondissement of the Littoral Department.
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is a museum.
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6th arrondissement is an arrondissement in the Littoral department of .
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7th arrondissement is an arrondissement in the Littoral department of .

Cotonou

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Latitude
6.3677° or 6° 22′ 4″ north
Longitude
2.4253° or 2° 25′ 31″ east
UN/LOCODE
BJ COO
Open location code
6FR49C9G+34
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1776467369
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2394819
Wiki­data ID
Q43595

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Cotonou” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Cotonou”
  • Arabic: “كوتونو”
  • Aragonese: “Cotonou”
  • Armenian: “Կոտոնու”
  • Arpitan: “Cotonou”
  • Asturian: “Cotonou”
  • Azerbaijani: “Kotonu”
  • Balinese: “Cotonou”
  • Basque: “Cotonou”
  • Belarusian: “Катану”
  • Bengali: “কোটোনো”
  • Bosnian: “Cotonou”
  • Breton: “Cotonou”
  • Bulgarian: “Котоноу”
  • Bulgarian: “Котону”
  • Catalan: “Cotonou”
  • Cebuano: “Cotonou”
  • Chechen: “Котону”
  • Chinese: “柯多努”
  • Chinese: “科多努”
  • Chinese: “科托努”
  • Croatian: “Cotonou”
  • Czech: “Cotonou”
  • Danish: “Cotonou”
  • Dutch: “Cotonou”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كوتونو”
  • Esperanto: “Kotonuo”
  • Estonian: “Cotonou”
  • Finnish: “Cotonou”
  • Fon: “Kutɔnu”
  • French: “Cotonou”
  • Galician: “Cotonou”
  • Georgian: “კოტონუ”
  • German: “Cotonou”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Cotonou”
  • Greek: “Κοτονού”
  • Gujarati: “કોટોનો”
  • Gun: “Kútọ̀nú”
  • Gun: “Kútɔ̀nú”
  • Haitian: “Kotonou”
  • Hausa: “Cotonou”
  • Hebrew: “קוטונו”
  • Hindi: “कोटोनाउ”
  • Hindi: “कोटोनौ”
  • Hungarian: “Cotonou”
  • Icelandic: “Cotonou”
  • Ido: “Cotonou”
  • Inari Sami: “Cotonou”
  • Indonesian: “Cotonou”
  • Interlingue: “Cotonou”
  • Italian: “Cotonou”
  • Japanese: “コトヌー”
  • Javanese: “Cotonou”
  • Kabiyè: “Kotonu”
  • Kannada: “ಕೊಟೊನೌ”
  • Karekare: “Kotonàu”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Cotonou”
  • Korean: “코토누”
  • Latin: “Cotonou”
  • Latvian: “Katanu”
  • Latvian: “Kotonu”
  • Latvian: “Kútɔ̀nú”
  • Lithuanian: “Kotonu”
  • Lombard: “Cotonou”
  • Macedonian: “Котону”
  • Malagasy: “Cotonou”
  • Malay: “Cotonou”
  • Marathi: “कोतोनू”
  • Mazanderani: “کوتونو”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Cotonou”
  • Moksha: “Котону”
  • Northern Frisian: “Cotonou (Steed)”
  • Northern Frisian: “Cotonou”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Cotonou”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Cotonou”
  • Norwegian: “Cotonou”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Cotòno”
  • Ossetian: “Котону”
  • Panjabi: “ਕੋਤੋਨੂ”
  • Persian: “کوتونو”
  • Piemontese: “Cotonou”
  • Polish: “Kotonu”
  • Portuguese: “Cotonou”
  • Portuguese: “Cotonu”
  • Pushto: “کوتونو”
  • Romanian: “Cotonou”
  • Russian: “Котону”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Cotonou”
  • Serbian: “Котону”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Cotonou”
  • Shona: “Cotonou”
  • Silesian: “Kotonu”
  • Sindhi: “ڪوٽونو”
  • Sinhala: “කොටොනෞ”
  • Slovak: “Cotonou”
  • South Azerbaijani: “کوتونو”
  • Spanish: “Cotonou”
  • Spanish: “Cotonú”
  • Swahili: “Cotonou”
  • Swedish: “Cotonou”
  • Swedish: “Littoral”
  • Tamil: “காடோனோ”
  • Tamil: “கொட்டொனௌ”
  • Telugu: “కొటొనౌ”
  • Thai: “กอตอนู”
  • Turkish: “Cotonou”
  • Udmurt: “Котону”
  • Ukrainian: “Котону”
  • Urdu: “کوتونوؤ”
  • Uzbek: “Kotonu”
  • Veps: “Kotonu”
  • Vietnamese: “Cotonou”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Cotonou”
  • Western Mari: “Котону”
  • Wu Chinese: “科托努”
  • Yoruba: “Cotonou”
  • Yoruba: “Kútọ̀nú”
  • Yue Chinese: “吉大奴”
  • Yue Chinese: “科托努”

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