Country size comparison

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Latvia is about 1.7 times smaller than Benin.

Benin is approximately 112,622 sq km, while Latvia is approximately 64,589 sq km, making Latvia 57.35% the size of Benin. Meanwhile, the population of Benin is ~13.8 million people (11.9 million fewer people live in Latvia).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Benin vs. Latvia uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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