Country size comparison
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North Korea is about 2 times smaller than Ghana.
Ghana is approximately 238,533 sq km, while North Korea is approximately 120,538 sq km, making North Korea 50.53% the size of Ghana. Meanwhile, the population of Ghana is ~33.1 million people (7.2 million fewer people live in North Korea).
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