Benin is the West African country with a total area of 114,763 square kilometers and Porto-Novo as its capital.
Benin lies between Togo and Nigeria, with Burkina Faso and Niger to the north and a short coastline on the Bight of Benin. Its territory stretches northward from the Atlantic coast into the savanna regions of West Africa. Area figures can vary slightly among references because of differing geographic measurement conventions, but 114,763 square kilometers is a standard figure in country profiles.
Porto-Novo is Benin’s official capital and the seat of its national legislature. Cotonou, the country’s largest city, is the economic center and the practical seat of many government institutions. That distinction is the main trap in this question: Cotonou is often mistakenly given as the capital.
The country was known as Dahomey until 1975. It became independent from France in 1960, retaining Porto-Novo as its official capital while Cotonou grew into the dominant commercial and administrative city.