Country size comparison

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Iowa is about 1.6 times smaller than Ghana.

Ghana is approximately 238,533 sq km, while Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km, making Iowa 60.66% the size of Ghana. Meanwhile, the population of Ghana is ~33.1 million people (30.1 million fewer people live in Iowa).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Ghana vs. Iowa uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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