Country size comparison

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Ghana is about 2.7 times smaller than Afghanistan.

Afghanistan is approximately 652,230 sq km, while Ghana is approximately 238,533 sq km, making Ghana 36.57% the size of Afghanistan. Meanwhile, the population of Afghanistan is ~38.3 million people (5.2 million fewer people live in Ghana).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Afghanistan vs. Ghana uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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