Grand-Popo

Grand-Popo is a town, arrondissement, and commune in the Mono Department of south-western Benin. The commune covers an area of 289 square kilometres and as at the 2013 Census had a population of 57,636 people. thumb|left|Old and new bridges in Grand-Popo

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Settlement.name: Grand-Popo
Settlement.settlement_type: Commune and city
Settlement.image_skyline: Benin4.jpg
Settlement.pushpin_map: Benin
Settlement.pushpin_label_position: top
Settlement.pushpin_map_caption: Location in Benin
Settlement.subdivision_type: Country
Settlement.subdivision_type1: Department
Settlement.subdivision_name1: Mono Department
Settlement.unit_pref: Imperial
Settlement.area_total_km2: 289
Settlement.population_as_of: 2013 Census
Settlement.population_total: 57636
Settlement.population_density_km2: auto
Settlement.timezone: WAT
Settlement.utc_offset: +1

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Instance of: commune of Benin
Country: Benin
Located in: Mono Department
Population: 57636
Area: 289
Elevation: 2
Image: Benin4.jpg

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twinned administrative body: Astrakhan
Commons category: Grand-Popo

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The term "Grand-Popo" is a European exonym for the ancient town and kingdom of "Hulagan" (Great Hula). The Hula/Xwla/Phla people that once dominated the Togo-Benin coast traditionally regarded Great Hula as their ancestral town of common origin. It is unclear why Europeans began calling it Popo rather than Hula. It may come from a generic Yoruba term "popo" for peoples to their "west", which was subsequently borrowed by the Portuguese to refer to the Hula/Phla specifically. An alternative theory connects the "Popo" term to an ancient ruler called Kpokpo of Tado (an Aja town in the interior), which the Europeans may have confused with Hulagan.

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