Benin

Facts

What the numbers say about Benin

• Russia, the largest place listed, is 146× the size of Benin.
• Benin ranks 76th of 237 by population but only 102nd of 239 by area: it holds more people than its size suggests.
• At 122 people per km², Benin is the 54th most densely populated of the 185 places over 1,000 km²; the median is 72 per km².
• Benin lies at 10°N, close to the equator, where a standard web map (Web Mercator) is nearly true to size: it inflates area by only about 1.0×.
• Laid out flat, Benin's main territory stretches about 688 km north to south and 335 km east to west.
• Wikidata's official figure of 115,000 km² agrees with our measured area of 116,000 km², to within 2%.

How Benin measures up

Benin holds 0.4% of the land area and 1.0% of the people of the 54 countries listed for Africa. In Western Africa it is the 10th largest of 16.

Where Benin sits

• Benin's centre lies at 9.6°N, 2.3°E, in the northern and eastern hemispheres, about 1,070 km from the equator.
• Its main territory spans 6°N to 12°N, about 690 km from its southern edge to its northern.

If Benin had other densities

• At Bangladesh's density of 1,252 people per km², Benin would have 145.4 million people. It has 14.1 million.
• At Canada's density of 3.7 people per km², Benin would have 432,000 people. It has 14.1 million.
• At the median density of the places listed, 72 per km², it would have 8.4 million.

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