Grand-Popo, Mono Department, Benin

🇧🇯 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.

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.

The town grew around the slave trade, but coastal erosion has now destroyed most of the old town. The town is now a centre for voodoo and home to a Finnish-African cultural centre, Villa Karo. The town's main industry is fishing.

The town inspired the name of the French electronic music duo Grand Popo Football Club, as well as the name of the iPad application creator Grand Popo LLC.

Porto-Novo Time 

Grand-Popo has a population of over 57,636 people. Grand-Popo also forms part of the wider Mono Department which has a population of over 495,307 people. Grand-Popo is situated near Lokossa.

Twin Towns - Sister Cities Grand-Popo has links with:

🇷🇺 Astrakhan, Russia

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North of: 6.283

🇱🇷 Monrovia 6.311

🇲🇾 Kuah 6.317

🇳🇬 Benin City 6.334

🇨🇴 Bello 6.335

🇨🇴 Copacabana 6.346

🇧🇯 Ouidah 6.354

🇧🇯 Cotonou 6.367

🇪🇹 Dila 6.4

🇳🇬 Lekki 6.406

🇳🇬 Enugu 6.433

South of: 6.283

🇲🇾 Jitra 6.25

🇬🇾 New Amsterdam 6.25

🇨🇴 Medellín 6.243

🇳🇬 Awka 6.207

🇳🇬 Asaba 6.193

🇨🇴 Puerto Carreño 6.188

🇲🇾 Tuaran 6.183

🇲🇾 Tumpat 6.168

🇳🇬 Onitsha 6.167

🇨🇴 Envigado 6.167

East of: 1.833

🇫🇷 Abbeville 1.836

🇫🇷 Yvelines 1.841

🇫🇷 Calais 1.852

🇫🇷 Guéret 1.869

🇫🇷 Corrèze 1.881

🇫🇷 Orléans 1.91

🇧🇯 Houéyogbé 1.933

🇩🇿 Aïn Defla 1.97

🇪🇸 Castelldefels 1.977

🇪🇸 Terrassa 2.009

West of: 1.833

🇫🇷 Rambouillet 1.831

🇪🇸 Manresa 1.826

🇩🇿 Tissemsilt 1.8

🇫🇷 Tulle 1.766

🇫🇷 Romorantin-Lanthenay 1.744

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Great Yarmouth 1.729

🇪🇸 Vilanova i la Geltrú 1.725

🇫🇷 Mantes-la-Jolie 1.719

🇧🇯 Lokossa 1.717

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Lowestoft 1.707

Antipodal to Grand-Popo is: -178.167,-6.283

Locations Near: Grand-Popo 1.83333,6.28333

🇧🇯 Houéyogbé 1.933,6.45 d: 21.6  

🇧🇯 Ouidah 2.088,6.354 d: 29.2  

🇧🇯 Lokossa 1.717,6.633 d: 41  

🇧🇯 Abomey-Calavi 2.358,6.449 d: 60.8  

🇧🇯 Cotonou 2.426,6.367 d: 66.2  

🇹🇬 Lomé 1.233,6.132 d: 68.5  

🇧🇯 Toffo 2.083,6.85 d: 68.8  

🇧🇯 Porto-Novo 2.605,6.497 d: 88.5  

🇫🇷 Vierzon 2.066,7.223 d: 107.6  

🇬🇭 Sogakope 0.583,5.983 d: 142.2  

Antipodal to: Grand-Popo -178.167,-6.283

🇼🇸 Apia -171.76,-13.833 d: 18921.5  

🇦🇸 Pago Pago -170.701,-14.279 d: 18808.2  

🇹🇴 Nuku'alofa -175.216,-21.136 d: 18333.3  

🇵🇫 Papeete -149.566,-17.537 d: 16667.7  

🇺🇸 Līhuʻe -159.35,21.967 d: 16264  

🇺🇸 Lihue -159.35,21.967 d: 16264  

🇺🇸 Kapa'a -159.333,22.083 d: 16252.4  

🇺🇸 Honolulu -157.85,21.3 d: 16230.9  

🇺🇸 Pearl City -157.969,21.394 d: 16230.2  

🇺🇸 Maui -156.446,20.72 d: 16188.4  

Flood Risk: Climate Central 6.28333 1.83333

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