Country size comparison

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New York is about 1.9 times smaller than Ghana.

Ghana is approximately 238,533 sq km, while New York is approximately 122,283 sq km, making New York 51.26% the size of Ghana. Meanwhile, the population of Ghana is ~33.1 million people (13.7 million fewer people live in New York).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Ghana vs. New York uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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