Ouidah
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Ouidah (English: ; French: ) or Whydah (; Ouidah, Juida, and Juda by the French; Ajudá by the Portuguese; and Fida by the Dutch), and known locally as Glexwe, formerly the chief port of the Kingdom of Whydah, is a city on the coast of the Republic of Benin. The commune covers an area of and as of 2002 had a population of 76,555 people.
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Ouidah
- Settlement.other_name
- Whydah
- Settlement.native_name
- Glexwe
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Commune and city
- Settlement.image_caption
- Door of No Return. A memorial arch monument to the victims of trans-atlantic slavery, on the coast of Ouidah.
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Benin
- Settlement.pushpin_label_position
- bottom
- Settlement.pushpin_mapsize
- 200
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Location in Benin
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Department
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Atlantique Department
- Settlement.unit_pref
- Metric
- Settlement.area_total_km2
- 364
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 2012
- Settlement.population_total
- 91688
- Settlement.population_density_km2
- auto
- Settlement.population_blank1_title
- Ethnicities
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Encyclopedic overview
14 sectionsContents
- History
- Fort of São João Baptista de Ajudá
- William's Fort
- Introduction
- William's Fort
- Limited local power
- A microcosm of Ouidah society
- Population
- Notable landmarks
- World Heritage Status
- Notable people
- See also
- References
- External links
Ouidah (English: ; French: ) or Whydah (; Ouidah, Juida, and Juda by the French; Ajudá by the Portuguese; and Fida by the Dutch), and known locally as Glexwe, formerly the chief port of the Kingdom of Whydah, is a city on the coast of the Republic of Benin. The commune covers an area of and as of 2002 had a population of 76,555 people.
==History==
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ouidah” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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