Porto-Novo

Porto-Novo (also known as Hogbonou and Adjacé) is the capital of the West African country of Benin. The city has a population of 223,552 people Porto-Nova is a port on an inlet of the Gulf of Guinea, in the southeastern part of the country. Porto-Novo is Benin's second largest city. The city of Cotonou is larger and more important, culturally and politically. The region around Porto-Novo produces palm oil, cotton and kapok. Petroleum was found off the coast of the city in the 1990s. It has become an important export of the city.

Porto-Novo Hogbonou and Adjacé
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Country	Benin
Population  (2002)
• Total	223,552
Time zone	UTC+1

Downtown road

Things to see

• The Porto Novo Museum of Ethnography has a large collection of Yoruba masks. It also has items on the history of the city and of Benin.
• King Toffa's palace (also known as the Musée Honmé and the Royal Palace) is now a museum that shows what life was like for African royalty.
• Jardin Place Jean Bayol is a large plaza which has a statue of the first King of Porto-Novo.
• The da Silva Museum is a museum of Benin history.
• The palais de Gouverneur (Governor's palace) is the home of the national legislature.

Another place of interest is a Brazilian-style church which is now a mosque. Stade Municipale and Stade Charles de Gaulle, or Charles de Gaulle Stadium, are the largest football stadiums in the city.

Other websites

• Official Republic of Benin tourism site for Porto-Novo Archived 2007-04-09 at the Wayback Machine
• Images of the Central Mosque of Porto-Novo Archived 2007-03-12 at the Wayback Machine