Country size comparison
compared to
North Carolina is about 1.9 times smaller than Ghana.
Ghana is approximately 238,533 sq km, while North Carolina is approximately 126,161 sq km, making North Carolina 52.89% the size of Ghana. Meanwhile, the population of Ghana is ~33.1 million people (23.6 million fewer people live in North Carolina).
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