Benin Country Guide | Guide to Benin

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Country Guide Benin

Capital:

Porto-Novo

Population:

8,439,000

Currency:

Communaute Financiere Africaine franc (XOF)

Religions:

indigenous beliefs 50%, Christian 30%, Muslim 20%

Government:

republic under multiparty democratic rule; dropped Marxism-Leninism December 1989

Languages:

French (official), Fon and Yoruba (most common vernaculars in south), tribal languages (at least six major ones in north)

Climate:

tropical; hot, humid in south; semiarid in north

Phone Code:

229

Lonely Planet: Benin [web site]