Kétou
Kétou is a medium-sized town in Benin. It is the seat of a very old Yoruba kingdom and therefore has a particularly strong cultural heritage. Kétou is very much off the beaten-track, making for an interesting visit.Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
- Type: City with 160,000 residents
- Description: commune and city in Plateau Department, Benin
- Also known as: “Commune de Kétou - Bénin” and “Kétou, Benin”
Kétou
- Categories: commune of Benin and locality
- Location: Plateau Department, Southern Benin, Benin, West Africa, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
7.3604° or 7° 21′ 38″ northLongitude
2.6024° or 2° 36′ 9″ eastPopulation
160,000Elevation
107 metres (351 feet)Open location code
6FV49J62+5XOpenStreetMap ID
node 2313302870OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
11789959Wikidata ID
Q2474638
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Akan to Swedish—“Kétou” goes by many names.
- Akan: “Kétou”
- Arabic: “كيتو”
- Catalan: “Kétou”
- Cebuano: “Commune of Ketou”
- Chinese: “凱圖”
- Dutch: “Ketou”
- Esperanto: “Kétou”
- Finnish: “Kétou”
- Fon: “Kétu”
- French: “Ketou”
- French: “Kétou”
- German: “Kétou”
- Greek: “Κετού”
- Igbo: “ketou”
- Italian: “Ketou”
- Italian: “Kétou”
- Japanese: “ケトゥ”
- Lithuanian: “Ketu”
- Malay: “Kétou”
- Northern Frisian: “Kétou”
- Persian: “کتو، بنین”
- Persian: “کتو”
- Polish: “Kétou”
- Romanian: “Ketou”
- Romanian: “Kétou”
- Russian: “Кету”
- South Azerbaijani: “کتو، بنین”
- South Azerbaijani: “کتو”
- Spanish: “Kétou”
- Swahili: “Kétou”
- Swedish: “Kétou”
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