Country size comparison

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Ghana is about 5 times smaller than Niger.

Niger is approximately 1,267,000 sq km, while Ghana is approximately 238,533 sq km, making Ghana 18.83% the size of Niger. Meanwhile, the population of Niger is ~24.5 million people (8.6 million more people live in Ghana).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Niger vs. Ghana uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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Moving from Ghana to Niger · UN DESA 2020
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