Benin
Northern Benin
Borgou Department

Parakou

Parakou is the largest city in northern , and the third-largest city in the country, with an estimated population of around 206,667 people, and capital of the . Administratively the commune of Parakou makes up one of Benin's 77 communes.
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  • Type: City with 250,000 residents
  • Description: city in Benin
  • Also known as: “Commune de Parakou - Bénin”
Photo: uxrocks, CC BY 3.0.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Musée en Plein Air de Parakou and Parakou Airport.

Museum
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is a located approximately 1.5 kilometres south of the centre of the city Parakou, in the suburbs. The museum consists of five circular complexes representing the traditional housing of the local Batanou peoples.

Aerodrome
is a public use located 1 km northwest of Parakou, , . It is to be replaced by the Tourou International Airport, a new airport in , about 10 km northwest of Parakou, which will feature an asphalt runway 3,500 meters in length.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Sokouno.

Hamlet
is a village in the commune of Parakou in the of central-eastern . It is located south-east of Parakou city centre on the RNIE 6 road.

Parakou

Latitude
9.34° or 9° 20′ 24″ north
Longitude
2.6278° or 2° 37′ 40″ east
Population
250,000
Elevation
369 metres (1,211 feet)
IATA airport code
PKO
United Nations Location Code
BJ PKO
Open location code
6FX48JRH+24
Open­Street­Map ID
node 308813067
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2392204
Wiki­data ID
Q688324
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Akan to Yoruba—“Parakou” goes by many names.
  • Akan: “Parakou”
  • Arabic: “باراكو”
  • Basque: “Parakou”
  • Belarusian: “Параку”
  • Bengali: “পারাকৌ”
  • Bengali: “প্যারাকু”
  • Bulgarian: “Параку”
  • Catalan: “Parakou”
  • Cebuano: “Commune of Parakou”
  • Cebuano: “Parakou”
  • Chinese: “帕拉库”
  • Chinese: “帕拉庫”
  • Croatian: “Parakou”
  • Czech: “Parakou”
  • Danish: “Parakou”
  • Dutch: “Parakou”
  • Esperanto: “Parakou”
  • Finnish: “Parakou”
  • Fon: “Parakou”
  • French: “La cité des Kobourou”
  • French: “Parakou”
  • Galician: “Parakou”
  • German: “Parakou”
  • Greek: “Παρακού”
  • Gujarati: “પરકોઉ”
  • Hebrew: “פאראקו”
  • Hindi: “पराकू”
  • Hungarian: “Parakou”
  • Indonesian: “Parakou”
  • Italian: “Parakou”
  • Japanese: “パラクー”
  • Kannada: “ಪ್ಯಾರಾಕು”
  • Korean: “파라쿠”
  • Latvian: “Paraku”
  • Lithuanian: “Paraku”
  • Malagasy: “Parakou”
  • Malay: “Parakou”
  • Marathi: “पारको”
  • Mingrelian: “პარაკუ”
  • Northern Frisian: “Parakou”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Parakou”
  • Norwegian: “Parakou”
  • Persian: “پاراکو، بنین”
  • Persian: “پاراکو”
  • Polish: “Parakou”
  • Portuguese: “Paracu”
  • Portuguese: “Parakou”
  • Romanian: “Parakou”
  • Russian: “Параку”
  • Serbian: “Параку”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Parakou”
  • Shona: “Parakou”
  • Sinhala: “පරකොඋ”
  • Slovak: “Parakou”
  • Slovenian: “Parakou”
  • South Azerbaijani: “پاراکو، بنین”
  • South Azerbaijani: “پاراکو”
  • Spanish: “Parakou”
  • Swahili: “Parakou”
  • Swedish: “Parakou”
  • Tamil: “பராகௌ”
  • Telugu: “పరాకు”
  • Thai: “ปารากู”
  • Turkish: “Parakou”
  • Ukrainian: “Параку”
  • Urdu: “پاراکوؤ”
  • Veps: “Paraku”
  • Vietnamese: “Parakou”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Parakou”
  • Yoruba: “Parakou”
  • “Parakou”

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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 “Parakou”. Photo: uxrocks, CC BY 3.0.