Africa · Western Africa
Benin 🇧🇯
Capital: Porto-Novo · Native name: Bénin
ISO 3166-1 alpha-2
BJ
ISO 3166-1 alpha-3
BEN
Phone dial code
+229
Internet TLD
.bj
Currency
XOF CFA
Exchange rate
1 USD = 573.5993 XOF
Population
13,224,860
Area (km²)
112,620
XOF → USD conversions
| USD | XOF |
|---|---|
| $1 | 573.6 CFA |
| $5 | 2,868 CFA |
| $10 | 5,735.99 CFA |
| $50 | 28,679.97 CFA |
| $100 | 57,359.93 CFA |
| $500 | 286,799.65 CFA |
| $1000 | 573,599.3 CFA |
Rate refreshed every 4 hours. See live XOF rates for all currencies →
Timezones
Africa/Porto-Novo
WAT · UTC+01:00 · West Africa Time
States / provinces · 12 total
Alibori
AL · department
Atakora
AK · department
Atlantique
AQ · department
Borgou
BO · department
Collines
CO · department
Donga
DO · department
Kouffo
KO · department
Littoral
LI · department
Mono
MO · department
Ouémé
OU · department
Plateau
PL · department
Zou
ZO · department
Cities in Alibori · sample from department
Want every city in Benin? See all 150,000+ cities or query the /v1/countries/BJ/states endpoint.
Country name in other languages
ar
بنين
br
Benin
de
Benin
es
BenÃn
fa
بنین
fr
Bénin
hi
बेनिन
hr
Benin
it
Benin
ja
ベナン
ko
ë² ëƒ‰
nl
Benin
Get this data from the API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" \
"https://api.apogeoapi.com/v1/countries/BJ?include=full"
# Returns:
# {
# "iso2": "BJ", "iso3": "BEN",
# "name": "Benin",
# "capital": "Porto-Novo",
# "currency": "XOF",
# "currencyRate": { "rate": 573.5993, "base": "USD" },
# "phoneCode": "229",
# "flagUrl": "https://flagcdn.com/bj.svg",
# ...
# }Use this data in your app today
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