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Benin map of Köppen climate classification zones man transporting a tree trunk during rainy season (October 2018) Benin's climate is hot and humid. Annual rainfall in the coastal area averages 1,360 mm (53.5 in), not particularly high for coastal West Africa. Benin has two rainy and two dry seasons.
The name Bonin comes from an 1817 article in the French Journal des Savans by Jean-Pierre Abel-Rémusat in which—among various other misunderstandings of his source material [3] —he misread a description of the islands as uninhabited (無人嶋, "desert island[s]") for their actual name, used the wrong reading of the characters (buninshima for mujintō), and then transcribed the resulting ...
The following is a list of ecoregions in Benin, according to the Worldwide Fund for Nature (WWF). Terrestrial ecoregions.
The islands have a total population of 2,560 (2021): 2,120 on Chichijima and 440 on Hahajima, [4] lives in the Ogasawara Group, which has a total area of 84 square kilometres (32 sq mi). Because the Ogasawara Islands have never been connected to a continent, many of their animals and plants have undergone unique evolutionary processes.
The Autonomous Port of Cotonou is one of the largest in West Africa. The city is connected to Parakou in the north by the Benin-Niger railway. Cotonou International Airport provides service to the capitals of the region and to France, as well as the major cities of Benin: Parakou, Kandi, Natitingou, Djougou, and Savé.
Benin geography stubs (5 C, 351 P) Pages in category "Geography of Benin" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total. This list may not reflect recent ...
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