Country size comparison
compared to
Mauritania is about 9 times bigger than Benin.
Benin is approximately 112,622 sq km, while Mauritania is approximately 1,030,700 sq km, making Mauritania 815% larger than Benin. Meanwhile, the population of Benin is ~13.8 million people (9.6 million fewer people live in Mauritania).
This to-scale comparison of
Benin
vs.
Mauritania
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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