Country size comparison

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Benin is about 1.3 times smaller than Iowa.

Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km, while Benin is approximately 112,622 sq km, making Benin 77.83% the size of Iowa. Meanwhile, the population of Iowa is ~3.0 million people (10.7 million more people live in Benin).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Iowa vs. Benin uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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Iowa is 3.1 times more expensive than Benin overall
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