Benin is 53.2× the size of Tokyo

What fits

• Tokyo fits inside Benin about 53.2 times by area.
• Benin is larger by 114,000 km² (44,000 mi²), which is 5,218% of the area of Tokyo.
• Measured in Belgiums: Benin is about 3.79, Tokyo about 0.07.

How they differ

• Benin is larger, but Tokyo has the larger population: 14.3 million against 14.1 million, 1.01× as many people.
• Per square kilometre that is 6,534 in Tokyo against 122 in Benin: Tokyo is 53.8× as densely populated.
• Their centres are about 13,300 km apart.
• A standard web map misstates the comparison: Benin at 10°N is drawn about 1.0× too large and Tokyo at 35°N about 1.5×, so the map shows Benin as 36.7× the size of Tokyo instead of 53.2×.
• Together Benin and Tokyo cover 118,000 km², close to the size of Malawi (119,000 km², 0.9% bigger).
• The gap between them, 114,000 km², is about the size of Bulgaria (113,000 km²).
• At Tokyo's density, Benin would have 758.6 million people (it has 14.1 million). At Benin's density, Tokyo would have 265,000 (it has 14.3 million).
• Tokyo's centre is 25.4° of latitude, about 2,820 km, farther north than Benin's.
• Benin ranks 103rd of 246 countries and territories by area.
• Tokyo is the 44th largest of the 47 prefectures of Japan and covers 0.6% of its area; it is the most densely populated of them.
• Tokyo lies about 25° of latitude (roughly 2,820 km) north of Benin.
• Shared out evenly, each person in Benin would have about 8,230 m² and each person in Tokyo about 150 m².
• Laid side by side, Benin and Tokyo would cover 118,000 km², about the same size as Malawi.
• Together they have 28.4 million people, about as many people as Cameroon.
• Tokyo is drawn from 173 points: at a size under 2,500 km² the outline is a sketch, so the overlap shows the proportions rather than the exact shape.
• Counted as a country, Tokyo would rank 181st by area and 76th by population.

Side by side

Population: Wikidata 2023 and Wikidata 2022. Official figures: Wikidata (CC0).

• Wikidata's official figure of 115,000 km² agrees with our measured area of 116,000 km², to within 2%.
• Wikidata's official figure of 2,190 km² agrees with our measured area of 2,180 km², to within 2%.

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