Parakou
Parakou is the largest city in northern Benin, and the third-largest city in the country, with an estimated population of 206,667 people, and capital of the Borgou Department. Administratively, the commune of Parakou makes one of Benin's 77 communes.
- City with about 250,000 residents
- …lies at an elevation of around 320 metres (1,060 feet)
- …has the IATA airport code PKO
- …is also known as “Commune de Parakou - Bénin”
- Description: city in Benin
Places of Interest
Highlights include Musée en Plein Air de Parakou and Parakou Airport.
Musée en Plein Air de Parakou
Musée en Plein Air de Parakou is a museum located…
Parakou Airport
Aerodrome
Parakou Airport is a public use airport located 1 km northwest of Parakou, Borgou, Benin.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kpébié and Sokouno.
Sokouno
Hamlet
Sokouno is a village in the commune of Parakou in the Borgou Department of central-eastern Benin.
Parakou
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Latitude
9.34° or 9° 20′ 24″ north
Longitude
2.6278° or 2° 37′ 40″ east
UN/LOCODE
BJ PKO
Open location code
6FX48JRH+24
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Akan to Yoruba—“Parakou” goes by many names.
- Akan: “Parakou”
- Amharic: “ፓራኩ”
- Arabic: “باراكو”
- Azerbaijani: “Parakou”
- Basque: “Parakou”
- Belarusian: “Параку”
- Bengali: “পারাকু”
- 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”
- Hausa: “Parakou”
- Hebrew: “פאראקו”
- Hindi: “पाराकू”
- Hungarian: “Parakou”
- Indonesian: “Parakou”
- Italian: “Parakou”
- Japanese: “パラクー”
- Javanese: “Parakou”
- Kannada: “ಪ್ಯಾರಾಕು”
- Karekare: “Parakou”
- Kazakh: “Паракоу”
- Kirghiz: “Паракоу”
- Korean: “파라쿠”
- Latvian: “Paraku”
- Lithuanian: “Paraku”
- Malagasy: “Parakou”
- Malay: “Parakou”
- Marathi: “पारको”
- Mingrelian: “პარაკუ”
- Northern Frisian: “Parakou”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Parakou”
- Norwegian: “Parakou”
- Oromo: “Parakou”
- Panjabi: “ਪਾਰਾਕੂ”
- Persian: “پاراکو، بنین”
- Persian: “پاراکو”
- Polish: “Parakou”
- Portuguese: “Paracu”
- Portuguese: “Parakou”
- Pushto: “پاراکو”
- Romanian: “Parakou”
- Russian: “Параку”
- Serbian: “Параку”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Parakou”
- Shona: “Parakou”
- Sinhala: “පරකොඋ”
- Slovak: “Parakou”
- Slovenian: “Parakou”
- Somali: “Parakou”
- South Azerbaijani: “پاراکو، بنین”
- South Azerbaijani: “پاراکو”
- Spanish: “Parakou”
- Swahili: “Parakou”
- Swedish: “Parakou”
- Tajik: “Паракоу”
- Tamil: “பராகௌ”
- Tatar: “Паракоу”
- Telugu: “పరాకు”
- Thai: “ปารากู”
- Turkish: “Parakou”
- Ukrainian: “Параку”
- Urdu: “پاراکو”
- Urdu: “پاراکوؤ”
- Uzbek: “Parakou”
- Veps: “Paraku”
- Vietnamese: “Parakou”
- Waray (Philippines): “Parakou”
- Yoruba: “Parakou”
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