Samoa is about 40 times smaller than Benin.

Benin is approximately 112,622 sq km, while Samoa is approximately 2,831 sq km, making Samoa 2.51% the size of Benin. Meanwhile, the population of Benin is ~13.8 million people (13.5 million fewer people live in Samoa).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Benin vs. Samoa uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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