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Benld is a city in Macoupin County, Illinois, United States. The population was 1,556 at the 2010 census. The name derives from founder Benjamin L. Dorsey (d. June 19, 1895).

Benld is located in the Metro-East portion of the Greater St. Louis, Missouri metropolitan area.

Dorsey was responsible for gaining the land on which the town was built and coal mining rights. When it came time to name the village, he took the combination of his first name and his middle and last initial. Benld was declared the "most difficult to pronounce" place name in the state of Illinois by Reader's Digest.