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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
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