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Key facts
- Country
- Benin
- Capital
- Dassa-Zoumé
- Total
- 13,931 km (5,379 sq mi)
- Density
- 51.436/km (133.22/sq mi)
- Time zone
- UTC+1 ( WAT )
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Collines ([kɔ.lin], "hills") is one of the twelve departments of Benin, located in the centre of the country. The department of Collines was created in 1999 when it was split off from Zou Department. In 2016, the city of Dassa-Zoumé (also called Igbo Idaasha) became the department's capital (formerly Savalou was the capital).
As of 2013, the total population of the department was 717,477, with 353,592 males and 363,885 females. The proportion of women was 50.70%. The total rural population was 72.50%, while the urban population was 27.50%. The total labour force in the department was 213,069, of which 45.30% were women. The proportion of households with no level of education was 57.60%.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Collines department” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.