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Mono is one of the twelve departments
Departments of Benin

|||}Benin is divided into 12 Department , and subdivided into 77 commune s. In 1999, the previous six departments were each split into two halves, forming the current 12....
 of Benin
Benin

Benin , officially the Republic of Benin, is a country in West Africa. It borders Togo to the west, Nigeria to the east and Burkina Faso and Niger to the north; its short coastline to the south leads to the Bight of Benin....
. The capital of this department is Lokossa
Lokossa

Lokossa is the capital city of Mono Department in Benin with a population of 36,954 . The name Lokossa translates into English as "underneath the mango tree"....
. The department of Kouffo
Kouffo Department

Kouffo is one of the twelve departments of Benin of Benin. The area of Kouffo is 2,404 km.? . Kouffo borders the country of Togo and it also borders the departments of Mono Department, Zou Department, and Atlantique Department....
 was part of Mono until 1999 when the Benin government split up some of the departments and made new departments. The Gen language
Gen language

Gen is a Gbe languages language spoken in the southeast of Togo in the Maritime Region. It is also spoken in the Mono Department of Benin. It is part of the Volta-Niger languages branch of the major African Niger-Congo languages language family....
 is only spoken in this department in Benin.






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Mono Communes
Mono is one of the twelve departments
Departments of Benin

|||}Benin is divided into 12 Department , and subdivided into 77 commune s. In 1999, the previous six departments were each split into two halves, forming the current 12....
 of Benin
Benin

Benin , officially the Republic of Benin, is a country in West Africa. It borders Togo to the west, Nigeria to the east and Burkina Faso and Niger to the north; its short coastline to the south leads to the Bight of Benin....
. The capital of this department is Lokossa
Lokossa

Lokossa is the capital city of Mono Department in Benin with a population of 36,954 . The name Lokossa translates into English as "underneath the mango tree"....
. The department of Kouffo
Kouffo Department

Kouffo is one of the twelve departments of Benin of Benin. The area of Kouffo is 2,404 km.? . Kouffo borders the country of Togo and it also borders the departments of Mono Department, Zou Department, and Atlantique Department....
 was part of Mono until 1999 when the Benin government split up some of the departments and made new departments. The Gen language
Gen language

Gen is a Gbe languages language spoken in the southeast of Togo in the Maritime Region. It is also spoken in the Mono Department of Benin. It is part of the Volta-Niger languages branch of the major African Niger-Congo languages language family....
 is only spoken in this department in Benin. Other languages spoken in this area are Ewe
Ewe language

Ewe is a Niger-Congo language spoken in Ghana, Togo and Benin by over three million people. Ewe is part of a cluster of related languages commonly called Gbe languages, spoken in southeastern Ghana and southern Togo....
 and some of the Phla-Pherá languages
Phla-Pherá languages

The Phla-Pher? languages form a subgroup of Gbe languages languages spoken mainly in south-eastern and south-western Benin; some communities are found in south-eastern Togo and south-western Nigeria....


Mono is divided into the communes of Bopa
BOPA

BOPA was a group of the Danish resistance movement operating at the time of the occupation of Denmark by Nazi Germany during the Second World War....
, Comé
Come

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, Grand-Popo
Grand-Popo

Grand-Popo is a town and Communes of Benin in the Mono Department of south-western Benin....
, and Houéyogbé
Houéyogbé

Hou?yogb? is a town and Communes of Benin in the Mono Department of south-western Benin....
.