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World Heritage Sites in Benin
Benin has 2 sites on UNESCO’s World Heritage List — 2 cultural. Below: how they split by type, and the headline sites. From UNESCO’s official list, snapshot 2026-06-22.
By heritage type
Notable sites in Benin
A spread of the country’s heritage — the rarer mixed and natural sites first, then its earliest inscriptions.
From 1625 to 1900, 12 kings succeeded one another at the head of the powerful Kingdom of Abomey. With the exception of King Akaba, who had his own separate enclosure, they all had their palaces built within the same cob-wall area, in keeping with previous palaces as regards the use of space and m…
The Koutammakou landscape in north-eastern Togo and neighbouring Benin is home to the Batammariba, whose remarkable mud tower-houses are known as takienta ( sikien in the plural). Nature is strongly associated with the rituals and beliefs of society here. The landscape is exceptional due to the a…
Shared across: Benin · Togo