Country size comparison

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Benin is about 6 times smaller than Somalia.

Somalia is approximately 637,657 sq km, while Benin is approximately 112,622 sq km, making Benin 17.66% the size of Somalia. Meanwhile, the population of Somalia is ~19.7 million people (4.8 million fewer people live in Benin).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Somalia vs. Benin uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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