Country size comparison

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Benin is about 152 times smaller than Russia.

Russia is approximately 17,098,242 sq km, while Benin is approximately 112,622 sq km, making Benin 0.66% the size of Russia. Meanwhile, the population of Russia is ~142.0 million people (128.3 million fewer people live in Benin).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Russia vs. Benin uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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