Country size comparison

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Benin is about 9 times smaller than Mauritania.

Mauritania is approximately 1,030,700 sq km, while Benin is approximately 112,622 sq km, making Benin 10.93% the size of Mauritania. Meanwhile, the population of Mauritania is ~4.2 million people (9.6 million more people live in Benin).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Mauritania vs. Benin uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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