Key facts
- Country
- Benin
- Department
- Alibori Department
- Total
- 3,421 km (1,321 sq mi)
- Elevation
- 288 m (945 ft)
- Density
- 51.94/km (134.5/sq mi)
- Time zone
- UTC+1 ( WAT )
- Postal address
- BP: 30
- Area code
- (+229) 23
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Encyclopedic overview
Kandi [kɑ̃.di] is a town, arrondissement and commune in the Alibori Department of eastern Benin. Originally a market town, Kandi is now primarily a farming centre. It lies on the nation's main north-south highway, 650 km (400 mi) from Cotonou and 523 km (325 mi) north of Porto-Novo. The town is the capital of the department of Alibori. The commune covers an area of 3,421 km (1,321 sq mi) and as of 2013 had a population of 177,683 people. The town itself had a population of 27,227 in 2002.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kandi” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.