Country size comparison

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Mauritania is about 4.3 times bigger than Ghana.

Ghana is approximately 238,533 sq km, while Mauritania is approximately 1,030,700 sq km, making Mauritania 332% larger than Ghana. Meanwhile, the population of Ghana is ~33.1 million people (28.9 million fewer people live in Mauritania).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Ghana vs. Mauritania uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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