Country size comparison

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Nicaragua is about 1.8 times smaller than Ghana.

Ghana is approximately 238,533 sq km, while Nicaragua is approximately 130,370 sq km, making Nicaragua 54.65% the size of Ghana. Meanwhile, the population of Ghana is ~33.1 million people (26.8 million fewer people live in Nicaragua).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Ghana vs. Nicaragua uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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