Country size comparison

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Ghana is about 1.6 times smaller than Japan.

Japan is approximately 377,915 sq km, while Ghana is approximately 238,533 sq km, making Ghana 63.12% the size of Japan. Meanwhile, the population of Japan is ~123.4 million people (88.3 million fewer people live in Ghana).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Japan vs. Ghana uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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