Benin address generator
Sample Benin addresses for testing. The place names are real, but Google’s address metadata documents no national layout for Benin, so these use a generic street-and-town format and are labelled as format examples.
- C Format example
- 87 cities
- 12 regions
- No postcodes
Options
1, Avenue de la Paix Ndali Benin
- City and region: GeoNames (no postcodes here)
- Street name, number: synthetic
Synthetic test data: not a verified or deliverable address.
- Street
- 1, Avenue de la Paix
- City
- Ndali
- Region
- Borgou
- Postcode
- Not used in this countryThis country does not use postcodes.
- Country
- Benin (BJ)
- Coordinates
- 9.864, 2.721 Approximate centre of the locality, not the building
How addresses are written in Benin
Google’s address metadata documents no specific layout for this country, so the generic international layout is shown.
- Required fields
- Street address and city
- Postcode
- Not used
- Regions
- 12 in the dataset
- Capitals
- Mail labels conventionally capitalise the street and city
- Script
- Latin
- Calling code
- +229
About the data for Benin
CFormat example. Google's address metadata has no specific format for this country, so a generic street-and-town layout is used. Places and regions come from GeoNames.
- Localities
- 87 · GeoNames populated places (cities500)
- Postcodes
- Postcodes are not used.
- Names
- fr_SN (regional approximation)
- Streets
- Synthetic names built from common local street words. They are not taken from real maps.
Sample Benin addresses
Eight addresses generated with a fixed seed. The city, region are real; street names and numbers are not.
| Formatted address | Postcode |
|---|---|
| 122, Allée du Fleuve, Lot 23 Kalalé | — |
| 69, Rue 2411 Ouaké | — |
| 78, Boulevard de la Paix Tanguiéta | — |
| 19, Rue du Marché, Appartement 30 Aplahoué | — |
| 12, Allée du Port Ouessé | — |
| 132, Route Mama Diène Banikoara | — |
| 104, Rue du Stade, Villa 19 Tchaourou | — |
| 2, Avenue Amadou Diongue Djougou | — |
Regions of Benin
Pick one in the generator above to keep every address inside it.
| Region | Localities |
|---|---|
| Alibori | 8 |
| Atacora | 10 |
| Atlantique | 16 |
| Borgou | 9 |
| Collines | 7 |
| Couffo | 6 |
| Donga | 4 |
| Littoral | 1 |
| Mono | 5 |
| Ouémé | 9 |
| Plateau | 5 |
| Zou | 7 |
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