Country size comparison
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Benin is about 6 times smaller than Afghanistan.
Afghanistan is approximately 652,230 sq km, while Benin is approximately 112,622 sq km, making Benin 17.27% the size of Afghanistan. Meanwhile, the population of Afghanistan is ~38.3 million people (24.6 million fewer people live in Benin).
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