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The commune is the second tier of Benin, between the twelve departments and the arrondissements, and the unit that runs local government. There are 77 of them, from the tiny ones round Cotonou to the huge savannah communes of the north.
The communes of Benin. The country has had the same 77 since the 2002 local elections made them the working tier of local government, and nothing on this map is a recent change. Three have a special status: Cotonou, Porto-Novo and Parakou, the three largest cities.
The communes are very uneven. In the north, Tchaourou, Karimama and Bassila are each several thousand square kilometres and fill their departments with a handful of neighbours. In the south, the opposite holds: Ouémé and Atlantique hold seventeen communes between them in a strip of coast, so many are small enough to need a tap area, and zooming in is the way to reach them.
Most names are the French ones as the government writes them, with the accents: Ouèssè, Péréré, Sèmè-Podji. The map's source drops the accents and spells a few differently, and the quiz uses the official forms. Cobly, for one, appears on some maps as Kobli.
The groups are the departments, so the game lets you drill them one at a time. Each department answers under the same name in Benin Departments.
Tchaourou is the largest commune in Benin, in Borgou on the border with Nigeria. It is bigger than all the communes of Littoral, Atlantique and Ouémé put together, and every one of them is easier to find than it is.
So-Ava sits on Lake Nokoué just north of Cotonou, and contains Ganvié, the stilt village built over the water. It is in Atlantique, not in Littoral, even though it is a few kilometres from the city.
Cobly is in the far north west, in Atacora, on the borders with Burkina Faso and Togo. Many maps still write it Kobli, so it is worth knowing both forms.
77, spread over the twelve departments.
Most data drops the French accents, and a few names have more than one spelling. The quiz uses the official ones: Ouèssè, Sèmè-Podji, Boukoumbé and Cobly.
The quiz groups them by department, so you can drill one department at a time. Each department is its own quiz as well.
The tier above this one is Benin Departments. For another country at this level, see Ghana Districts.
