This is a list of diplomatic missions of Benin. Owing to its small size, the
Republic of Benin
Benin ( , ; french: Bénin , ff, Benen), officially the Republic of Benin (french: République du Bénin), and formerly Republic of Dahomey, Dahomey, is a country in West Africa. It is bordered by Togo to the west, Nigeria to the east, Burki ...
maintains a very modest diplomatic network abroad. Its paramount relationship is with
France
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, the former colonial power.
Honorary consulates are excluded from this list.
Africa
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Addis Ababa
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Rabat (Embassy)
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Abuja (Embassy)
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Lagos
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(Consulate-General)
Americas
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Havana
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Washington, D.C.
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Embassy
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Asia
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Beijing
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Tokyo
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Kuwait City (Embassy)
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Doha
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Riyadh
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Europe
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Paris
Paris () is the Capital city, capital and List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), ma ...
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Moscow
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Embassy
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Multilateral organization
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New York City
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Gallery
File:Embassy of Benin, Havana.jpg, Embassy in Havana
File:Moscow, Uspensky Lane 7.jpg, Embassy in Moscow
File:Ambassade du Bénin en France.jpg, Embassy in Paris
File:ベナン大使館プレート.jpg, Embassy in Tokyo
File:Embassy of Benin.jpg, Embassy in Washington, D.C.
File:Benin Mission to UN 125 E38 jeh.jpg, Permanent Mission to the United Nations in New York City
See also
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Foreign relations of Benin
After seizing power in the 1972 coup d'état, Major Mathieu Kérékou declared the Republic of Dahomey a Marxist-Leninist state and sought financial support from communist governments in Eastern Europe and Asia. To distance the modern state f ...
References
Les représentations diplomatiques du Bénin
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Benin
Benin ( , ; french: Bénin , ff, Benen), officially the Republic of Benin (french: République du Bénin), and formerly Dahomey, is a country in West Africa. It is bordered by Togo to the west, Nigeria to the east, Burkina Faso to the nort ...
Diplomatic missions
A diplomatic mission or foreign mission is a group of people from a state or organization present in another state to represent the sending state or organization officially in the receiving or host state. In practice, the phrase usually deno ...