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.
- Type: City with 160,000 residents
- Description: city in Benin
- Also known as: “Ajudá”, “Hweda”, “Juda”, “Juda Ouidah”, “Ouidá”, “São João Batista de Ajudá”, “Vidahas”, “Whidah”, “Whydah”, “Wida”, “Widdah”, “Ўіда”, “ويداه”, and “圣约翰堡”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Fort of São João Baptista de Ajudá and Basilique de l’Immaculée Conception.
Fort of São João Baptista de Ajudá
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Djégbadji.
Djégbadji
Village
Ouidah
- Categories: commune of Benin and locality
- Location: Atlantique Department, Southern Benin, Benin, West Africa, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
6.3666° or 6° 21′ 60″ north
Longitude
2.0854° or 2° 5′ 7″ east
Population
160,000
Elevation
17 metres (56 feet)
UN/LOCODE
BJ OIH
Open location code
6FR4938P+J4
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap 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”
- Basque: “Ouidah”
- Belarusian: “Уіда”
- 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: “Ouidah”
- Danish: “Ouidah”
- Dutch: “Ouidah”
- Dutch: “São João Baptista de Ajudá”
- Esperanto: “Ouidah”
- Finnish: “Ouidah”
- Fon: “Glexwé”
- Fon: “Ouidah”
- French: “Ouidah”
- German: “Ouidah”
- Greek: “Ουιντά”
- Hausa: “Ouidah”
- Hebrew: “וידה”
- Hungarian: “Ouidah”
- Inari Sami: “Ouidah”
- Indonesian: “Ouidah”
- Italian: “Ouidah”
- Japanese: “ウィダー”
- Korean: “우이다”
- Lithuanian: “Uida”
- Luxembourgish: “Ouidah”
- Malay: “Ouidah”
- Northern Frisian: “Ouidah”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Ouidah”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Ouidah”
- Persian: “اویده”
- Polish: “Ouidah”
- Portuguese: “Fortaleza de São João Baptista de Ajudá”
- Portuguese: “Uidá”
- 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: “Ouidah”
- Ukrainian: “Віда”
- Ukrainian: “Уїда”
- Urdu: “ویدہ”
- Welsh: “Ouidah”
- Yoruba: “Ouidah”
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