Country size comparison

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Ghana is about 4.3 times smaller than Mauritania.

Mauritania is approximately 1,030,700 sq km, while Ghana is approximately 238,533 sq km, making Ghana 23.14% the size of Mauritania. Meanwhile, the population of Mauritania is ~4.2 million people (28.9 million more people live in Ghana).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Mauritania vs. Ghana uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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