🇧🇯 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alibori Department | BJ-AL | 36 | 867,463 |
| Atakora Department | BJ-AK | 37 | – |
| Atlantique Department | BJ-AQ | 77 | – |
| Borgou Department | BJ-BO | 138 | – |
| Collines department | BJ-CO | 34 | – |
| Donga Department | BJ-DO | 74 | – |
| Kouffo Department | BJ-KO | 6 | 741,895 |
| Littoral | BJ-LI | 2 | 678,874 |
| Mono Department | BJ-MO | 41 | – |
| Oueme Department | BJ-OU | 13 | 1,096,850 |
| Plateau Department | BJ-PL | 21 | – |
| Zou Department | BJ-ZO | 53 | – |
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.