Country size comparison
compared to
New Jersey is about 12 times smaller than Ghana.
Ghana is approximately 238,533 sq km, while New Jersey is approximately 19,211 sq km, making New Jersey 8.05% the size of Ghana. Meanwhile, the population of Ghana is ~33.1 million people (24.3 million fewer people live in New Jersey).
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