A planned joint hydroelectric project with neighboring Togo is intended to reduce Benin's dependence on imported energy mostly from Ghana, which currently accounts for a significant proportion of the country's imports.

The Bight of Benin's shore was part of the " Slave Coast ", from where many West Africans were sold to slave traders who enticed them to sell able-bodied men into bonded servitude.

Bohicon is a city in Benin, and a conurbation of Abomey lying 9 kilometres east of the city on the railway line from Cotonou to Parakou and on Benin's main highway RNIE 2 which joins the RNIE 4.

It is about 50 km from Benin's Pendjari National Park, where tourists can see West African wildlife during the months of December through June.

During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Benin's rulers increasingly utilized insignia made from ivory, and imported Owo's art objects and recruited its artisans for their own royal workshops.

In addition to being Benin's largest city, it houses many of its government and diplomatic services.

During the 15th and 16th centuries, the Oba of Benin's power was at its peak and different monarchs of the dynasty controlled significant stretches of land in what is now West Africa.

France is Benin's leading source for imports.

* March 24 – The Beninese presidential election, Benin's first presidential election since 1970, is won by Nicéphore Soglo.

It can be considered the economic capital as it houses two-thirds of Benin's industries and is the headquarters of the nation's major enterprises and banks.

It is Benin's second-largest city, and although Porto-Novo is the official capital, the city of Cotonou is not only larger but also more important, culturally and politically: Cotonou is the seat of government.

Benin's climate is hot and humid.

The U. S. Government continues to assist Benin with the improvement of living standards that are key to the ultimate success of Benin's experiment with democratic government and economic liberalization, and are consistent with U. S. values and national interest in reducing poverty and promoting growth.

In the meantime he sent a message forward to the Oba, Benin's king, that his present mission was to discuss trade and peace and demanding admission to the territory in defiance of Benin law explicitly forbidding his entry.

Benin's early and relatively smooth transition may be attributed to the particularly dismal economic situation in the country, which seemed to preclude any alternative.

While many Fon identify as Christian, the majority practice Benin's national religion Vodun.

Kidjo often utilizes Benin's traditional Zilin vocal technique and jazz vocalese.

Having been a prominent critic of the military dictatorship that had ruled his country, Hountondji became involved in Benin's return to democracy ( in 1992 ), and served in the government as Minister of Education and Minister for Culture and Communications until his resignation and return to the University in 1994.

" More neutral was Fraternite, noting that " Ahomadegbe, whose political might was extraordinary, was among the most feared politicians in Benin's contemporary history.

The mayor as of 2008 was Samou Seidou Adambi and administratively the commune of Parakou makes up one of Benin's 77 communes.

Alada, a lect that is sometimes included in the Phla – Pherá group, is spoken in southwestern Nigeria just southeast of Benin's administrative capital Porto-Novo.

The Bight of Benin's shore soon came to be known as the " Slave Coast ".

On average, the Atlantic is the saltiest major ocean ; surface water salinity in the open ocean ranges from 33 to 37 parts per thousand ( 3. 3 – 3. 7 %) by mass and varies with latitude and season.

The Gulf Stream's powerful influence makes seasonal temperature variations extremely small considering the latitude of the island, with ranges from around in August to in February, but also makes the island extremely cloudy with little sunshine even during the continuous polar day — in fact the island is one of the gloomiest places in the world with any sunshine data.

The combination of tropical latitude, mountain ranges, topography variations and two ocean currents ( Humboldt and El Niño ) gives Peru a large diversity of climates.

Despite their relatively modest height compared with some continental ranges, walking and climbing in the Scottish mountains may be made treacherous by their latitude and exposure to Atlantic and Arctic weather systems.

Madhya Pradesh literally means " Central Province ", and is located in the geographic heart of India, between latitude 21 ° 04 ' N-26. 87 ° N and longitude 74 ° 02 '- 82 ° 49 ' E. The state straddles the Narmada River, which runs east and west between the Vindhya and Satpura ranges ; these ranges and the Narmada are the traditional boundary between the north and south of India.

Interior Douglas-fir intergrades with coast Douglas-fir in the Cascades of northern Washington and southern British Columbia, and from there ranges northward to central British Columbia and southeastward to the Mexican border, becoming increasingly disjunct as latitude decreases and its altitudinal limits increase.

Brookings due to its high latitude of 44 ° 18 ′ 23 ″ N and location far from moderating bodies of water or mountain ranges has a humid continental climate ( Köppen climate classification ) Dfb, with summer wetter than winter, and average temperature of the warmest month under 72 ° F ( 22 ° C ).

Its administrative area ranges in latitude 39 ° 24 ' to 40 ° 37 ' N and in longitude from 118 ° 33 ' to 119 ° 51 ' E, and has a total area of.

The remaining two bits of the second row give four ranges of exposure tolerance, or latitude.

The " latitude " of a circle representing a particular rotation angle will be half of the angle represented by that rotation, since as the point is moved from the north to south pole, the latitude ranges from zero to 180 degrees, while the angle of rotation ranges from 0 to 360 degrees.

In the high mountains of the Altai-Tian Shan region, it ranges south perhaps as far as 42 ° northern latitude.

Nanaimo is probably the northernmost location of a Mediterranean climate ( Köppen Csb ) in the world, and is slightly shielded from the Aleutian Low ’ s influence by the mountains of central Vancouver Island, so that summers are unusually dry for its latitude and location — though summer drying as a trend is found in the immediate lee of the coastal ranges as far north as Skagway, Alaska.

The latitude ranges for the Roaring Forties and similar winds are not consistent, shifting towards the South Pole in the southern summer, and towards the Equator in the southern winter.

The " latitude " of a circle representing a particular rotation angle will be half of the angle represented by that rotation, since as the point is moved from the north to south pole, the latitude ranges from zero to 180 degrees, while the angle of rotation ranges from 0 to 360 degrees.

The latitude of the prefecture ranges from 37 ° 27 ' to 38 ° 47 ' N, the longitude 113 ° 30 ' to 115 ° 20 ' E. At its greatest, the prefecture is long from south to north and wide from east to west.

The latitude of the entire prefecture ranges from 32 ° 17 ' to 33 ° 48 ' N, while the longitude ranges from 110 ° 58 ' to 113 ° 49 ' E, and the prefecture spans.

Within about an hour with the help of reports from seismic stations in Alaska, Arizona and California, the quake's epicenter was placed at 51 degrees North latitude and 158 degrees East longitude.

It extends from Iceland in the north to approximately 58 ° South latitude, reaching a maximum width of about.

Surface water temperatures, which vary with latitude, current systems, and season and reflect the latitudinal distribution of solar energy, range from below.

It rises at about 67 ° N latitude and 173 ° E longitude near the headwaters of the Maly Anyuy River, flows southwest receiving the waters of the Yablon and Eropol Rivers, turns east and passes Markvovo and the old site of Anadyrsk, turns north and east and receives the Mayn River from the south, thereby encircling the Lebediny Zakaznik, turns northeast to receive the Belaya River ( Chukotka ) from the north, turns southeast past the Ust-Tanyurer Zakaznik and receives the Tanyurer River from the north.

Robert Hooke, in 1674, published his observations of γ Draconis, a star of magnitude 2 < sup > m </ sup > which passes practically overhead at the latitude of London, and whose observations are therefore free from the complex corrections due to astronomical refraction, and concluded that this star was 23 ″ more northerly in July than in October.

The Baltic Sea is a brackish mediterranean sea located in Northern Europe, from 53 ° N to 66 ° N latitude and from 20 ° E to 26 ° E longitude.

The term circumpolar constellation is used for any constellation that, from a particular latitude on Earth, never sets below the horizon.

As latitude increases, this increases the impact of the storms, which in its journey from west to east, swept the western coasts of continents, dumping heavy rains as carrying high humidity.

For instance, it is visible from Cancun or any other place at latitude 25 ° N or less at around 10 pm at the end of April.

Although Dada itself was unknown in Georgia until at least 1920, from 1917-1921 a group of poets called themselves " 41st Degree " ( referring both to the latitude of Tbilisi, Georgia and to the temperature of a high fever ) organized along Dadaist lines.

By 1534 the Spanish crown had determined to split the region in two parallel lines, forming the governorship of " Nueva Castilla " ( from the 1 ° to the 14 ° latitude, close to Pisco ), and that of " Nueva Toledo " ( from the 14 ° to the 25 ° latitude, in Taltal, Chile ), assigning the first to Francisco Pizarro and the second to Diego de Almagro.

As seen from locations in the Earth's Northern Hemisphere, celestial objects with declinations greater than 90 ° − ( where = observer's latitude ) appear to circle daily around the celestial pole without dipping below the horizon, and are therefore called circumpolar stars.

Formulae connecting a tangential angle, the angle anchored at the ellipse's center ( called also the polar angle from the ellipse center ), and the parametric angle t < ref > If the ellipse is illustrated as a meridional one for the earth, the tangential angle is equal to geodetic latitude, the angle is the geocentric latitude, and parametric angle t is a parametric ( or reduced ) latitude of auxiliary circle </ ref > are:

The meridian arc length from the equator to latitude is written in terms of:

The meridian arc length from the equator to latitude is also related to a special case of:

Ptolemy derived his maps from a curved globe and developed the system of latitude, longitude, and climes.