Bassila
| Bassila | |||
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| Coordinates | 9 ° 1 ′ N , 1 ° 40 ′ E | ||
| Basic data | |||
| Country | Benin | ||
| Donga | |||
| ISO 3166-2 | BJ-DO | ||
| surface | 5661 km² | ||
| Residents | 130,770 (2013) | ||
| density | 23.1 Ew. / km² | ||
| politics | |||
| mayor | S. Amidou Atta | ||
Bassila is a town and municipality in the Donga department in the West African country of Benin .
history
The municipality has an area of 5,661 km² and in 2013 had a population of 130,770. The trunk road RNIE 3 runs through the town of Bassila on the border with Togo , so the majority of the population is of Togolese origin. Bassila includes (as of 2013) 30 villages. The city has been twinning with Sulzbach in the Saarland since 2005 .
Sports
The Fédération Béninoise de Football has been running the Bassila Foot Academie in the village since 2011 and mainly trains young people from poor backgrounds in football.
sons and daughters of the town
- Alphonse Amadou Alley (1930–1987), politician
Town twinning
Individual evidence
- ^ Partnership agreement - City of Sulzbach / Saar (PDF; 4.6 MB) Sulzbach / Saar . Retrieved January 5, 2010.
- ↑ Bassila . Atlas Monographique des Communes du Benin. Retrieved on January 5, 2013. ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Stima popolazione nel 2013 da GeoHive . Retrieved August 9, 2015.
- ^ Communes of Benin . Statoids. Archived from the original on January 2, 2010. Retrieved January 5, 2013.
- ↑ Communes ofBenin . Statoids. Retrieved January 5, 2013.
- ^ Twin town Bassila (Benin) - town Sulzbach / Saar . Sulzbach / Saar . Retrieved July 11, 2012.
- ↑ L'académie… . BJ Foot. Retrieved July 11, 2012.
