🇧🇯 Benin 12 administrative divisions
12 first-level administrative divisions — states, provinces, regions or counties, depending on the country — and 532 cities and towns, each with latitude and longitude. Public domain, free to download, no API key.
The country
- ISO 3166-1
- BJ · BEN · 204
- Capital
- Porto-Novo
- Continent
- Africa
- Currency
- XOF — West African CFA franc
- Calling code
- +229
- Internet domain
- .bj
- Divisions
- 12
- Cities and towns
- 532
Divisions
The 12 divisions of Benin
12 of them carry an ISO 3166-2 code. Counts are cities and towns inside each division.
| Division | ISO 3166-2 | Cities and towns | Population |
|---|---|---|---|
| Borgou Department | BJ-BO | 138 | — |
| Atlantique Department | BJ-AQ | 77 | — |
| Donga Department | BJ-DO | 74 | — |
| Zou Department | BJ-ZO | 53 | — |
| Mono Department | BJ-MO | 41 | — |
| Atakora Department | BJ-AK | 37 | — |
| Alibori Department | BJ-AL | 36 | 867,463 |
| Collines department | BJ-CO | 34 | — |
| Plateau Department | BJ-PL | 21 | — |
| Oueme Department | BJ-OU | 13 | 1,096,850 |
| Kouffo Department | BJ-KO | 6 | 741,895 |
| Littoral | BJ-LI | 2 | 678,874 |
A further 0 places could not be matched to a
division and are listed separately in the API as
"unassigned": true.
Get it
Both files, in one request each
# every division of Benin
curl -s https://api.placedb.org/v1/regions/BJ.json
# the cities and towns of one division (id from the file above)
curl -s https://api.placedb.org/v1/cities/BJ/<id>.jsonNo key, no account, no rate limit. The endpoints · try it live.