Ouidah
Ouidah or Whydah, and known locally as Glexwe, formerly the chief port of the Kingdom of Whydah, is a city on the coast of the Republic of Benin. The commune covers an area of 364 km2 and as of 2002 had a population of 76,555 people.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Hinnou Gontran Serge, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: City with 160,000 residents
- Description: city in Benin
- Also known as: “Juda”, “Whydah”, “Wida”, and “圣约翰堡”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Fort of São João Baptista de Ajudá and Basilique de l’Immaculée Conception.
Fort of São João Baptista de Ajudá
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
The Forte de São João Baptista de Ajudá is a small restored fort in Ouidah, Benin. Built in 1721, it was the last of three European forts built in that town to tap the slave trade of the Slave Coast.
Basilique de l’Immaculée Conception
Church
Photo: Danearlaffo, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Basilique de l'Immaculée Conception is a Catholic minor basilica dedicated to the Immaculate Conception located in Ouidah, Benin. The basilica is in the Latin Church Archdiocese of Cotonou. The basilica was dedicated on November 9, 1989.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Djégbadji.
Djégbadji
Village
Photo: Padonou Dotou, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Djégbadji is a town and arrondissement in the Atlantique Department of southern Benin. It is an administrative division under the jurisdiction of the commune of Ouidah.
Ouidah
- Categories: commune of Benin and locality
- Location: Atlantique Department, Southern Benin, Benin, West Africa, Africa
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Latitude
6.3666° or 6° 21′ 60″ northLongitude
2.0854° or 2° 5′ 7″ eastPopulation
160,000Elevation
17 metres (56 feet)United Nations Location Code
BJ OIHOpen location code
6FR4938P+J4OpenStreetMap ID
node 313015821OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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In Other Languages
From Akan to Yoruba—“Ouidah” goes by many names.
- Akan: “Ouidah”
- Arabic: “أويدا”
- Armenian: “Վիդա”
- Azerbaijani: “Vida”
- Belarusian: “Уіда”
- Belarusian: “Ўіда”
- Bulgarian: “Уида”
- Catalan: “Ouidah”
- Cebuano: “Ouidah (kapital sa departamento sa Benin)”
- Cebuano: “Ouidah”
- Chinese: “威达”
- Chinese: “威達”
- Chinese: “维达”
- Croatian: “Ouidah”
- Czech: “Ajudá”
- Czech: “Hweda”
- Czech: “Ouidah”
- Czech: “Whydah”
- Danish: “Ouidah”
- Dutch: “Ouidah”
- Dutch: “São João Baptista de Ajudá”
- Dutch: “Whydah”
- Esperanto: “Ouidah”
- Finnish: “Ouidah”
- Fon: “Glexwé”
- Fon: “Ouidah”
- French: “Juda Ouidah”
- French: “Juda”
- French: “Ouidah”
- German: “Ouidah”
- German: “Widdah”
- Greek: “Ουιντά”
- Hausa: “Ouidah”
- Hebrew: “וידה”
- Hungarian: “Ouidah”
- Inari Sami: “Ouidah”
- Indonesian: “Ouidah”
- Italian: “Ouidah”
- Japanese: “ウィダー”
- Korean: “우이다”
- Lithuanian: “Uida”
- Lithuanian: “Vidahas”
- Luxembourgish: “Ouidah”
- Malay: “Ouidah”
- Northern Frisian: “Ouidah”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Juda”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Ouidah”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Whydah”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Ouidah”
- Persian: “اویده، بنین”
- Persian: “اویده”
- Polish: “Ouidah”
- Portuguese: “Fortaleza de São João Baptista de Ajudá”
- Portuguese: “Hweda”
- Portuguese: “Ouidá”
- Portuguese: “Ouidah”
- Portuguese: “São João Batista de Ajudá”
- Portuguese: “Uidá”
- Portuguese: “Whidah”
- Romanian: “Ouidah”
- Russian: “Вида”
- Russian: “Виды”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Ouidah”
- Shona: “Ouidah”
- Slovenian: “Ouidah”
- South Azerbaijani: “اویده، بنین”
- South Azerbaijani: “اویده”
- Spanish: “Ouidah”
- Swahili: “Ouidah”
- Swedish: “Ajudá”
- Swedish: “Ouidah”
- Ukrainian: “Віда”
- Ukrainian: “Уїда”
- Urdu: “ویدہ”
- Welsh: “Ouidah”
- Yoruba: “Ouidah”
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