Country size comparison

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Maldives is about 378 times smaller than Benin.

Benin is approximately 112,622 sq km, while Maldives is approximately 298 sq km, making Maldives 0.26% the size of Benin. Meanwhile, the population of Benin is ~13.8 million people (13.4 million fewer people live in Maldives).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Benin vs. Maldives uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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