page_title: Mansudae Overseas Projects
section_title: Benin
hierarchical_section_title: Mansudae Overseas Projects / Benin
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Statue von Behanzin in Abomey
context_page_description: Mansudae Overseas Projects is a construction company based in Jongphyong-dong, Phyongchon District, Pyongyang, North Korea. It is the international commercial division of the Mansudae Art Studio. As of August 2011, it had earned an estimated US$160 million overseas building monuments and memorials. As of 2015, Mansudae projects have been built in 17 countries: Angola, Algeria, Benin, Botswana, Cambodia, Chad, Democratic Republic of Congo, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Germany, Malaysia, Mali, Mozambique, Namibia, Senegal, Togo and Zimbabwe. The company uses North Korean artists, engineers, and construction workers rather than those of the local artists and workers. Sculptures, monuments, and buildings are in the style of North Korean socialist realism.
context_section_description: In Benin, the company has built a statue of Béhanzin.
caption: Statue of Béhanzin in Benin
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