Country size comparison
compared to
Benin is about 2.4 times smaller than Western Sahara.
Western Sahara is approximately 266,000 sq km, while Benin is approximately 112,622 sq km, making Benin 42.34% the size of Western Sahara. Meanwhile, the population of Western Sahara is ~652,271 people (13.1 million more people live in Benin).
This to-scale comparison of
Western Sahara
vs.
Benin
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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