Benin guide: sources and attribution
Prepared 30 October 2026

Benin tourism authority, geography, departments, capital and languages:
https://benin.bj/en/benin
2016 decree fixing the twelve departmental seats:
https://www.ecolex.org/details/legislation/decret-n2016-397-du-07-juillet-2016-portant-fixation-des-chefs-lieux-des-departements-de-la-republique-du-benin-lex-faoc168766/
UNESCO World Heritage properties in Benin:
https://whc.unesco.org/en/statesparties/bj
UNESCO, W-Arly-Pendjari Complex:
https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/749/

Departments and national outline: geoBoundaries gbOpen BEN ADM1, 2012,
source geoBoundaries and Wikimedia Commons, public domain:
https://www.geoboundaries.org/ and https://www.geoboundaries.org/api/current/gbOpen/BEN/ADM1/
The simplified department polygons are unioned to form the country outline.
The source's missing Kouffo ISO code and spelling of Atlantique and Ouémé
have been corrected. Boundaries are generalized educational references.

River reaches: Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team, Benin Waterways, extracted
October 2026, OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL 1.0:
https://data.humdata.org/dataset/hotosm_ben_waterways
https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright
Only named river reaches are selected. Courses can contain gaps and the extract
may omit cross-border sections. Not navigation data. City coordinates mark
approximate settlement centres, not municipal boundaries.

Hero: jbdodane, via Wikimedia Commons:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ganvi%C3%A9_fishing_village_on_stilts_in_Benin_(10282059623)_(2).jpg