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Donga Department

department of Benin
AdministrativeArea department_of_benin Q29161

Facts

12 properties

Identity

Instance of
department of Benin
Inception
1999[13]
Official website
www.gouv.bj[14]

Location

Country
Benin[3]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 9.700°, 1.667°
Located in the administrative territorial entity
Benin[2]
Shares border with
Atakora Department, Borgou Department, Collines department[5][6][7]

Population and size

Area
+11126.0[15]
More facts +4
Capital
Djougou[4]
Contains the administrative territorial entity
Bassila, Copargo, Rural Djougou, Djougou, Ouaké[8][9][10][11][12]
Geoshape
🗺️ View shape: Benin/Donga
Language used
Foodo, Lukpa, Tammari, Kabiye, Lama, Yobe, Yom, Bariba, Anii, Borgu Fulfulde, Kura Nago, Ede Ica, Mahi, Northern Nago, Berba[16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29]
🏷️ Also known as
en Donga Department ar إدارة دونغا da Donga de BJ-DO el Ντονγκά fa استان دونگا hi डोंगा विभाग id Departemen Donga id Donga it dipartimento di Donga ja ドンガ県 ko 동가주 pl Departament Donga ro Departamentul Donga ru Донга th ดองกา tr Donga Departmanı uk Регіон Донга zh 峽谷省 zh-hans 峡谷省
🔖 Identifiers · 12
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Extensive Landwirtschaft im Norden Benins bei Djougou.jpg ↗
FIPS 10-4 (countries and regions)
BN13
Freebase ID
/m/084rjz
GNS Unique Feature ID
9145895
GeoNames ID
2597274
Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names ID
7032094
INaturalist place ID
11329
ISO 3166-2 code
BJ-DO
Museum-digital place ID
20416
OpenStreetMap relation ID
2845865
Topic's main category
Category:Donga Department
Who's on First ID
85668827
📚 Sources · 1
  • GeoNames as of 2026-09-26 · 2 statements · CC BY 4.0 CC BY 4.0 — attribution: GeoNames (www.geonames.org), licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Values as shipped.

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PopulationP1082
384,151 2026-09-26 A/ADM1 · BJ GeoNames (CC BY 4.0) as of 2026-09-26
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Source
GeoNames
Edition
20260926 · as of 2026-09-26
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Credit
CC BY 4.0 — attribution: GeoNames (www.geonames.org), licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Values as shipped.
Bronze
1da92a6323a5fec3… admin1CodesASCII.txt +9 files
Transform
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Located in time zoneP421
Africa/Porto-Novo 2026-09-26 A/ADM1 · BJ GeoNames (CC BY 4.0) as of 2026-09-26
where from?
Source
GeoNames
Edition
20260926 · as of 2026-09-26
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Credit
CC BY 4.0 — attribution: GeoNames (www.geonames.org), licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Values as shipped.
Bronze
1da92a6323a5fec3… admin1CodesASCII.txt +9 files
Transform
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CC BY 4.0 — attribution: GeoNames (www.geonames.org), licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Values as shipped.
🔗 Connections
Language used 11
Kabiye, Bariba, Tammari, Anii, Foodo, Yom, Berba, Lama +3 more
← Indigenous to 10
Kabiye, Bariba, Anii, Foodo, Yom, Berba, Lama, Lukpa +2 more
Contained subdivisions 7
Djougou, Bassila, Copargo, Ouaké, Pabégou, RNIE 3, RNIE 6
Contains the administrative territorial entity 4
Djougou, Bassila, Copargo, Ouaké
Shares border with 3
Collines department, Borgou Department, Atakora Department
← Shares border with 3
Collines department, Borgou Department, Atakora Department
Capital 1
Djougou
Country 1
Benin
Instance of 1
department of Benin
Located in the administrative territorial entity 1
Benin
Topic's main category 1
Category:Donga Department
← Capital of 1
Djougou
← Category's main topic 1
Category:Donga Department
← Contains the administrative territorial entity 1
Benin
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Summary

Donga Department is a department of Benin[1].

Related Entities

Benin

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Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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  1. 20w ago · Nanahuatl · 2026-06-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Capital → —
    Capital → Djougou
    Topic's main category → Category:Donga Department
    Country → Benin
    + 16 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
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