Country size comparison
compared to
Western Sahara is about 2.4 times bigger than Benin.
Benin is approximately 112,622 sq km, while Western Sahara is approximately 266,000 sq km, making Western Sahara 136% larger than Benin. Meanwhile, the population of Benin is ~13.8 million people (13.1 million fewer people live in Western Sahara).
This to-scale comparison of
Benin
vs.
Western Sahara
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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