Country size comparison
compared to
Benin is about 1.6 times bigger than Ireland.
Ireland is approximately 70,273 sq km, while Benin is approximately 112,622 sq km, making Benin 60% larger than Ireland. Meanwhile, the population of Ireland is ~5.3 million people (8.5 million more people live in Benin).
This to-scale comparison of
Ireland
vs.
Benin
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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