Country size comparison

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Benin is around the same size as Eritrea.

Eritrea is approximately 117,600 sq km, while Benin is approximately 112,622 sq km, making Benin 95.77% the size of Eritrea. Meanwhile, the population of Eritrea is ~6.2 million people (7.5 million more people live in Benin).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Eritrea vs. Benin uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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