Benin covers 116,553 km² km² on the new Equal Earth world map — 0.1%% of all land on Earth, making it the 102nd largest country in the world and the 39th largest in Africa. At 10° latitude Mercator only inflates Benin by about 3%%, so the old and new maps largely agree on it — unlike the far north, where Mercator's stretch is dramatic.
For scale: Benin is roughly the same size as Cuba (109,285 km² km²).