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LOCATION AND SIZE. Benin is a slim, rectangular country situated in West Africa. Benin has a narrow 100-kilometer (62-mile) coastline along the Bight of Benin, in the Atlantic Ocean.The country is bordered to the west by Nigeria, to the north by Niger and Burkina Faso, and to the east by Togo.enin has a land area of 112,622 square kilometers (42,985 square miles), making it slightly smaller than the state of Pennsylvania. Both the capital, Porto-Novo, and Cotonou, the largest city, are located on the coast in the southeast of the country.
kingdom of Benin - Student Encyclopedia (Ages 11 and up) A historic kingdom of West Africa, Benin flourished for more than 600 years in the forests of what is now southern Nigeria. The early years of Benin are shrouded in myth. A kingdom may have existed among the Edo (or Bini) people in as early as AD 900.