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Within Vinony's link graph, Plateau Department is referenced by 203 other articles, and connects out to Ile Ife, Kétou and Nigeria.
The entry is geolocated on the map in BJ.
It sits within the topics 1999 establishments in Benin, Departments in Yorubaland and Departments of Benin.
Its subject is documented across 43 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Country
- Benin
- Capital
- Pobè
- Total
- 3,264 km (1,260 sq mi)
- Density
- 191.2/km (495.3/sq mi)
- Time zone
- UTC+1 ( WAT )
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- department of Benin
- Country
- Benin
- Located in
- Benin
- Contains
- Sakété
- Capital
- Pobè
- Area
- 3264.0
- Elevation
- 57
- Shares border with
- Ogun State
- Official website
- www.gouv.bj/content/le-departement-du-plateau
- Image
- Chef de Kétou (1900).jpg
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- topic's main category
- Category:Plateau Department
- inception
- 1999-00-00
- Commons category
- Plateau Department
- language used
- Ede Cabe
Sources (3)
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Encyclopedic overview
Plateau [pla.to] is one of the twelve departments of Benin. The department of Plateau was created in 1999 with an area of 2,835 square kilometres (1,095 sq mi) when it was split off from Ouémé Department. Plateau is subdivided into five communes, each centred at one of the principal towns: Adja-Ouèrè, Ifangni, Kétou, Pobè and Sakété.
As of 2013, the total population of the department was 622,372, with 300,065 males and 322,307 females. The proportion of women was 51.80%. The total rural population was 54.80%, while the urban population was 45.20%. The total labour force in the department was 185,815, of which 43.10% were women. The proportion of households with no level of education was 65.50%.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Plateau Department” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.