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🇧🇯 Benin

🇧🇯Benin (officially: Republic of Benin) is filed in ISO 3166-1 under alpha-2 code BJ, alpha-3 code BEN and numeric code 204. Its international dialing code is +229 and its country-code top-level domain is .bj. The capital is Porto-Novo. Region: Africa.

Currency: XOF (CFA Franc BCEAO).

The two-letter code appears in domains, locales (like en-BJ), shipping and licence plates; the three-letter code in passports, finance and sport; the numeric code where Latin script is unavailable.