Benin
Northern Benin
Donga Department

Djougou

Djougou is the largest city in northwestern . It is an important market town. The commune covers an area of 3,966 square kilometres and as of 2002 had a population of 237.040 people. Djougou is home to a constituent monarchy.
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  • Type: City with 260,000 residents
  • Description: city in north west Benin
  • Also known as: “Jugu”

Djougou

Latitude
9.7107° or 9° 42′ 38″ north
Longitude
1.6652° or 1° 39′ 55″ east
Population
260,000
Elevation
444 metres (1,457 feet)
IATA airport code
DJA
United Nations Location Code
BJ DJA
Open location code
6FX3PM68+73
Open­Street­Map ID
node 313015848
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2394560
Wiki­data ID
Q868198
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In Other Languages

From Akan to Yoruba—“Djougou” goes by many names.
  • Akan: “Djougou”
  • Arabic: “جوغو”
  • Arabic: “دجوغو”
  • Armenian: “Ջուգու”
  • Belarusian: “Джугу”
  • Bengali: “জাুগু”
  • Bulgarian: “Джугу”
  • Catalan: “Djougou”
  • Cebuano: “Djougou (kapital sa departamento)”
  • Cebuano: “Djougou”
  • Chinese: “朱古”
  • Croatian: “Djougou”
  • Danish: “Djougou”
  • Dutch: “Djougou”
  • Finnish: “Djougou”
  • Fon: “Júgù”
  • French: “Commune De Djougou”
  • French: “Djougou”
  • German: “Djougou”
  • Greek: “Ντζουγκού”
  • Gujarati: “ડીજૌગૌ”
  • Hebrew: “דג’וגו”
  • Hindi: “जोउगोउ”
  • Hungarian: “Djougou”
  • Indonesian: “Djougou”
  • Italian: “Djougou Urban”
  • Italian: “Djougou”
  • Japanese: “ジューグー”
  • Kannada: “ಡಿಜೌವು”
  • Korean: “주구”
  • Latvian: “Džugu”
  • Lithuanian: “Džugu”
  • Malagasy: “Djougou”
  • Malay: “Djougou”
  • Marathi: “डीजोऊगोऊं”
  • Mingrelian: “ჯუგუ”
  • Northern Frisian: “Djougou Steed”
  • Northern Frisian: “Djougou”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Djougou”
  • Persian: “جوگو، بنین”
  • Persian: “جوگو”
  • Polish: “Djougou”
  • Portuguese: “Djougou”
  • Romanian: “Djougou”
  • Russian: “Джугу”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Djougou”
  • Shona: “Djougou”
  • Sinhala: “දිජෝගෝඋ”
  • Slovenian: “Djougou”
  • South Azerbaijani: “جوقو، بنین”
  • South Azerbaijani: “جوقو”
  • Spanish: “Djougou”
  • Swahili: “Djougou”
  • Swedish: “Djougou”
  • Tamil: “டுஜோவுகோவு”
  • Telugu: “డిజోగు”
  • Thai: “ดโจวกูว”
  • Turkish: “Djougou”
  • Ukrainian: “Джугу”
  • Urdu: “جوؤگوؤ”
  • Veps: “Džugu”
  • Vietnamese: “Djougou”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Djougou”
  • Yoruba: “Djougou”
  • “Djougou”

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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 “Djougou”. Photo: Saliousoft, CC BY-SA 4.0.