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Benin

The retained Wikidata revision records BJ as the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code of Benin.

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Permanent entity ID: 01a0816a-a59e-74f6-bf88-f95fded544fb
Entity type: Country
Canonical name: Benin
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Language: English (en)

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WikidataWikidata Q962 (revision 2534682662)

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