Country size comparison

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Benin is about 8 times smaller than Tanzania.

Tanzania is approximately 947,300 sq km, while Benin is approximately 112,622 sq km, making Benin 11.89% the size of Tanzania. Meanwhile, the population of Tanzania is ~63.9 million people (50.1 million fewer people live in Benin).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Tanzania vs. Benin uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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