URI(s)

• http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79110959

Codes

• f-dm---

Variants

• Benan
• Benin Jinmin Kyōwakoku
• Narodnai︠a︡ Respublika Benin
• People's Republic of Benin
• Republic of Benin
• République du Bénin
• République populaire du Bénin
• Народная Республика Бенин
• ベナン
• ベニン人民共和国
• 见宁
• Beining
• 贝宁共和国
• Beining gong he guo

Identifies LC/NAF RWO

• http://id.loc.gov/rwo/agents/n79110959

Identifies RWO

• http://dbpedia.org/resource/Benin
• http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q962
• http://www.viaf.org/viaf/133637392
• http://isni.org/isni/0000000123423987
• http://www.bbc.co.uk/things/8cd6de4c-659d-4e34-be02-56b8e1123818#id
• http://sws.geonames.org/2395170/
• http://vocab.getty.edu/tgn/1000160-place
• http://musicbrainz.org/area/1f72ee74-2d3f-3a40-846b-e3d780b73dd2#_
• https://d-nb.info/gnd/4005503-6

• Descriptor

  Country

• Descriptor

  Countries (sovereign states)

• Descriptor

  Republics

• Descriptor

  Nations

• Descriptor

  Nation

• Descriptor

  National state

• Descriptor

  State

• Descriptor

  State

• Associated Locale

  Africa

• Associated Locale

  Africa, West

• Associated Locale

  Africa, French-speaking

• Associated Locale

  Africa, French-speaking West

• Associated Locale

  French-speaking countries

• Associated Locale

  Islamic countries

Has Demonym

• Beninese

Exact Matching Concepts from Other Schemes

• http://viaf.org/viaf/sourceID/LC%7Cn++79110959#skos:Concept
• http://eurovoc.europa.eu/4846
• http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1206464
• http://id.agrisemantics.org/gacs/C763
• http://vocab.getty.edu/tgn/1000160
• http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D001541
• http://zbw.eu/stw/descriptor/17695-3
• http://vocabularies.unesco.org/thesaurus/concept691

Closely Matching Concepts from Other Schemes

• Benin Label from public data source Wikidata
• Benín
• Bénin

Earlier Established Forms

• Dahomey

Sources

• found: Narodnai︠a︡ Respublika Benin, 1989.
• found: The statesman's year-book, 1995-1996:p. 192 (Benin; République du Bénin)
• found: GeoNames, algorithmically matched, 2009(pcl; 09°30ʹ00ʺN 002°15ʹ00ʺE)
• found: Wikipedia, July 23, 2018(Benin (French: Bénin), officially the Republic of Benin (French: République du Bénin) and formerly Dahomey, is a country in West Africa; 6°28ʹN 2°36ʹE)
• found: Web NDL authorities, July 23, 2018(ベナン = Benan; variants: ダホメ = Dahome; ベニン人民共和国 = Benin Jinmin Kyōwakoku; ダオメー = Daomē; Benin) - https://id.ndl.go.jp/auth/ndlna/00561189
• found: Festival du nouvel an chinois, 2020:title page (见宁; Bénin)
• found: Chinese Wikipedia, searched October 13, 2020(见宁; 贝宁共和国; République du Bénin)

Editorial Notes

• [URIs added to this record for the PCC URI MARC Pilot. Please do not remove or edit the URIs.]
• [Name changed 11-30-1975 from Dahomey to Benin.]
• [Non-Latin script references not evaluated.]

Instance Of

• MADS/RDF Geographic
• MADS/RDF Authority
• SKOS Concept

Scheme Membership(s)

• Library of Congress Name Authority File

Collection Membership(s)

• Names Collection - Authorized Headings
• LC Names Collection - General Collection

Change Notes

• 1980-05-21: new
• 2020-10-14: revised

Alternate Formats

• RDF/XML (MADS and SKOS)
• N-Triples (MADS and SKOS)
• JSON (MADS/RDF and SKOS/RDF)
• MADS - RDF/XML
• MADS - N-Triples
• MADS/RDF - JSON
• SKOS - RDF/XML
• SKOS - N-Triples
• SKOS - JSON
• MADS/XML
• MARC/XML