Djougou
Djougou is the largest city in northwestern Benin. 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.
- Type: City with 260,000 residents
- Description: city in north west Benin
- Also known as: “Commune De Djougou”, “Djougou Urban”, and “Jugu”
Djougou
- Categories: commune of Benin and locality
- Location: Donga Department, Northern Benin, Benin, West Africa, Africa
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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
UN/LOCODE
BJ DJA
Open location code
6FX3PM68+73
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Akan to Yoruba—“Djougou” goes by many names.
- Akan: “Djougou”
- Amharic: “ጁጉ”
- Arabic: “جوجو”
- Arabic: “جوغو”
- Arabic: “دجوغو”
- Armenian: “Ջուգու”
- Azerbaijani: “Djougou”
- Belarusian: “Джугу”
- Bengali: “জাুগু”
- Bengali: “জুগু”
- 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: “Djougou”
- German: “Djougou”
- Greek: “Ντζουγκού”
- Gujarati: “ડીજૌગૌ”
- Hausa: “Djougou”
- Hebrew: “דג’וגו”
- Hindi: “जोउगोउ”
- Hindi: “ज्जुगु”
- Hungarian: “Djougou”
- Indonesian: “Djougou”
- Italian: “Djougou”
- Japanese: “ジューグー”
- Japanese: “ジュグー”
- Javanese: “Djougou”
- Kannada: “ಡಿಜೌವು”
- Kazakh: “Джугу”
- Kirghiz: “Джугу”
- Korean: “주구”
- Latvian: “Džugu”
- Lithuanian: “Džugu”
- Malagasy: “Djougou”
- Malay: “Djougou”
- Marathi: “डीजोऊगोऊं”
- Mingrelian: “ჯუგუ”
- Northern Frisian: “Djougou Steed”
- Northern Frisian: “Djougou”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Djougou”
- Oromo: “Djougou”
- Panjabi: “ਜੁਗੂ”
- Persian: “جوگو”
- Polish: “Djougou”
- Portuguese: “Djougou”
- Pushto: “جوگو”
- Romanian: “Djougou”
- Russian: “Джугу”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Djougou”
- Shona: “Djougou”
- Sinhala: “දිජෝගෝඋ”
- Slovenian: “Djougou”
- Somali: “Djougou”
- South Azerbaijani: “جوقو، بنین”
- South Azerbaijani: “جوقو”
- Spanish: “Djougou”
- Swahili: “Djougou”
- Swedish: “Djougou”
- Tajik: “Джугу”
- Tamil: “டுஜோவுகோவு”
- Tatar: “Джугу”
- Telugu: “డిజోగు”
- Thai: “ดโจวกูว”
- Turkish: “Djougou”
- Ukrainian: “Джугу”
- Urdu: “جوؤگوؤ”
- Urdu: “جوگو”
- Uzbek: “Djougou”
- Veps: “Džugu”
- Vietnamese: “Djougou”
- Waray (Philippines): “Djougou”
- Yoruba: “Djougou”
- “Djougou”
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