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Key facts
- Country
- Benin
- Capital
- Abomey
- Total
- 5,243 km (2,024 sq mi)
- Density
- 162.4/km (420.7/sq mi)
- Time zone
- UTC+1 ( WAT )
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- department of Benin
- Country
- Benin
- Located in
- Benin
- Contains
- Zogbodomey
- Capital
- Abomey
- Area
- 5243.0
- Elevation
- 152
- Shares border with
- Kouffo Department
- Official website
- www.gouv.bj/content/le-departement-du-zou
- Image
- Abomey royal palace wall.jpg
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- topic's main category
- Category:Zou Department
- Commons category
- Zou Department
- language used
- Adja
- native label
- Zou
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Encyclopedic overview
Zou [zu] is one of the twelve departments of Benin, named for the Zou River which travels through the department before emptying into the Atlantic in the south of the country. The department of Zou was split in two in 1999, with the northern territory transferred to the newly created Collines Department. The capital of Zou is Abomey. Zou is subdivided into nine communes, each centred at one of the principal towns: Abomey, Agbangnizoun, Bohicon, Cové, Djidja, Ouinhi, Za-Kpota, Zangnanado and Zogbodomey.
As of 2013, the total population of the department was 851,580, with 407,030 males and 444,550 females. The proportion of women was 52.20%. The total rural population was 67.00%, while the urban population was 33.00%. The total labour force in the department was 275,249, of which 50.10% were women. The proportion of households with no level of education was 60.70% and the proportion of households with children attending school was 72.90%.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Zou Department” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.