Benin, authoritatively the Republic of Benin, and some time ago Dahomey, is a nation in West Africa. It is flanked by Togo toward the west, Nigeria toward the east, and Burkina Faso and Niger toward the north. Most of its populace lives on the little southern coastline of the Bight of Benin, some portion of the Gulf of Guinea in the northernmost tropical part of the Atlantic Ocean. The capital of Benin is Porto-Novo, yet the seat of government is in Cotonou, the nation's biggest city and monetary capital. Benin covers a zone of 114,763 square kilometers (44,310 sq mi). Benin is a tropical country, exceptionally subject to agribusiness, with considerable work and salary emerging from subsistence cultivating. From the seventeenth to the nineteenth century, the fundamental political elements in the territory were the Kingdom of Dahomey, alongside the city-province of Porto-Novo, and an expansive zone with a wide range of countries toward the north. This area was alluded to as the Slave Coast from as right on time as the seventeenth century because of the vast number of oppressed individuals who were dispatched to the New World amid the Trans-Atlantic slave exchange. After oppression was annulled, France assumed control over the nation and renamed it French Dahomey. In 1960, Dahomey increased full freedom from France. The sovereign state has had a wild history from that point forward, with a wide range of popularity based governments, military overthrows, and military governments.

Porto-Novo is the capital of Benin, and was the capital of French Dahomey. The collective covers a territory of 110 square kilometers (42 sq mi). As the name proposes, Porto-Novo was initially created as a port for the slave exchange driven by the Portuguese Empire. Porto-Novo is a port on a channel of the Gulf of Guinea, in the southeastern bit of the nation. It is Benin's second-biggest city, and in spite of the fact that Porto-Novo is the official capital, where the national assembly sits, the bigger city of Cotonou is the seat of government, where the majority of the administration structures are arranged and government offices work. The district around Porto-Novo produces palm oil, cotton and kapok. Oil was found off the bank of the city during the 1990s, and has from that point forward turned into a significant fare.

The African leopard (Panthera pardus pardus) is the leopard assign subspecies local to numerous nations in Africa. It is generally circulated in the vast majority of sub-Saharan Africa, yet the chronicled range has been divided over the span of natural surroundings change. Panthers have been recorded in North Africa too. The African panther shows incredible variety in coat shading, contingent upon area and natural surroundings. Coat shading shifts from light yellow to profound gold or brownish, and some of the time dark, and is designed with dark rosettes while the head, lower appendages and paunch are spotted with strong dark. Male panthers are bigger, averaging 60 kg (130 lb) with 91 kg (201 lb) being the greatest weight achieved by a male. Females weigh around 35 to 40 kg (77 to 88 lb) overall. The African panther is explicitly dimorphic; guys are bigger and heavier than females.