Country size comparison

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Benin is about 1.2 times smaller than Nicaragua.

Nicaragua is approximately 130,370 sq km, while Benin is approximately 112,622 sq km, making Benin 86.39% the size of Nicaragua. Meanwhile, the population of Nicaragua is ~7.0 million people (7.8 million more people live in Benin).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Nicaragua vs. Benin uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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