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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.
Benin is the 149th largest export economy in the world and the 84th most complex economy according to the Economic Complexity Index (ECI). In 2015, Benin exported $913M and imported $5.61B, resulting in a negative trade balance of $4.7B. In 2015 the GDP of Benin was $8.29B and its GDP per capita was $2.06k.