Benin: 12 provinces, states and territories
Every administrative level, from the 12 first-level units down to ADM3, on a terrain map with people, density and sources.
Benin by province, state and territory
12 first-level units and 77 second-level units inside them, raised by people per km² over the population grid and terrain. Select a unit to drill in or open its page.
Every administrative level of Benin
Each level comes from the boundary source admitted for that country and level, with its own licence.
- ADM1
- 12 first-level units · geoBoundaries gbOpen · Public Domain · each with its own page
- ADM2
- 77 second-level units · geoBoundaries gbOpen · Public Domain · each with its own page
- ADM3
- 546 third-level units · geoBoundaries gbOpen · Open Data Commons Open Database License 1.0 · in the maps, tables and downloads of the pages above
All 12 first-level units
Two population estimates from open grids, summed inside each boundary. The CSV carries the first two levels; each unit page carries the levels below it.
Boundary licences: Public Domain
| Unit | Code | People (GHSL) | People (WorldPop) | Area km² | Per km² | Share | Coast ≤ 10 m |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alibori | BJ-AL | 1,292,910 | 1,892,751 | 26,622 | 49 | 9% | 0 |
| Atakora | BJ-AK | 1,102,600 | 1,435,970 | 21,280 | 52 | 7.7% | 0 |
| Atlanique | BJ-AQ | 2,217,652 | 2,263,717 | 3,217 | 689 | 15.4% | 735,241 |
| Borgou | BJ-BO | 1,892,790 | 2,212,444 | 25,118 | 75 | 13.2% | 0 |
| Collines | BJ-CO | 878,661 | 881,566 | 14,293 | 61 | 6.1% | 0 |
| Donga | BJ-DO | 836,861 | 943,966 | 11,248 | 74 | 5.8% | 0 |
| Kouffo | – | 903,040 | 624,667 | 2,362 | 382 | 6.3% | 2,447 |
| Littoral | BJ-LI | 1,085,607 | 529,500 | 189 | 5,744 | 7.6% | 894,566 |
| Mono | BJ-MO | 674,201 | 599,669 | 1,764 | 382 | 4.7% | 83,043 |
| Oueme | BJ-OU | 1,377,918 | 1,224,414 | 1,374 | 1,003 | 9.6% | 502,054 |
| Plateau | BJ-PL | 979,311 | 933,491 | 3,155 | 310 | 6.8% | 331 |
| Zou | BJ-ZO | 1,116,611 | 1,091,702 | 5,068 | 220 | 7.8% | 3,112 |
Subnational risk products
Sources, credits and licences
- ADM1 boundaries
- geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen BEN ADM1, source: geoBoundaries, Wikimedia Commons, licence: Public Domain · source · represents 2012
- ADM2 boundaries
- geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen BEN ADM2, source: Map Maker Ltd., Stanford earthworks, licence: Public Domain · source · represents 2007
- ADM3 boundaries
- geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen BEN ADM3, source: uMap, Open Street Map © OpenStreetMap contributors, licence: Open Data Commons Open Database License 1.0 (share-alike: this boundary layer is offered under the same licence) · source · represents 2021. Offered under the same licence (Open Data Commons Open Database License 1.0), kept as its own layer and not merged into other data.
- Basemap
- OpenFreeMap © OpenMapTiles (CC BY 4.0) · data © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL 1.0). Vector tiles requested by the reader’s browser, unmodified; the map falls back to plain land and sea when the host does not answer.
- Terrain
- Terrain Tiles (Mapzen, AWS Open Data), compiled from SRTM and other public elevation sources (NASA, USGS, ETOPO1, GMTED, EU-DEM under the Copernicus programme, Geoscience Australia, Kartverket, INEGI, LINZ, data.gov.uk). Display relief, not survey data.
- People
- GHSL 2025 population grid, European Commission Joint Research Centre (CC BY 4.0), shown at 0.05° and summed per unit; WorldPop 2025 (CC BY 4.0) as a second estimate. Units smaller than a grid cell take the density of the cell under them.
- Amazwe
- Natural Earth (public domain).
- Elevation
- GEBCO Compilation Group (2024) GEBCO 2024 Grid (public domain), reduced to 0.05°: the share of each cell’s land at or below 10 m, weighted by GHSL 2025 people for the low coastal zone.
- Position
- Boundaries are shown for location only and take no position on any boundary, name or status.
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