Country size comparison
compared to
Benin is about 2.2 times bigger than Costa Rica.
Costa Rica is approximately 51,100 sq km, while Benin is approximately 112,622 sq km, making Benin 120% larger than Costa Rica. Meanwhile, the population of Costa Rica is ~5.2 million people (8.6 million more people live in Benin).
This to-scale comparison of
Costa Rica
vs.
Benin
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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