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'''Zagnanado''' or ''' Zangnanado ''' is a town, [[Arrondissements of Benin|arrondissement]], and [[Communes of Benin|commune]] in the [[Zou Department]] of southern-central [[Benin]]. It is located 47 kilometres from [[Abomey]] and 165 kilometres north of [[Cotonou]]. The commune covers an area of 750 square kilometres and as of 2013 had a population of 132,401 people.<ref>http://www.geohive.com/cntry/benin.aspx {{Dead link|date=August 2022}}</ref>
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The territorial entity that is today the municipality of Zagnanado has undergone several administrative changes since the colonial period until today. Since the early eighteenth century, the region depended on the kingdom of [[Abomey]]. Guézo made the area headquarters of the army during his campaigns against the [[Yoruba people|Yoruba]] and Kétou of Abeokuta.<ref name="Commune">{{cite web|url=http://www.zagnanado.communedubenin.org/|title=Zagnanado|publisher=www.zagnanado.communedubenin.org|access-date=January 5, 2009}}</ref> By the Act of June 21, 1895, King [[Agoli-Agbo]], he authorised full authority over the [[Agonlin]] region. In the early twentieth century, Zagnanado and surrounding villages were visited by many missionaries who spread [[Christianity]]. During the colonial period and into the 1970s, Agonlin remained a single administrative entity.<ref name="Commune"/> However, in 1978 it was divided into three communes, Zagnanado, [[Covè]] and [[Ouinhi]].<ref name="Commune"/>
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