Country size comparison
compared to
South Africa is about 5 times bigger than Ghana.
Ghana is approximately 238,533 sq km, while South Africa is approximately 1,219,090 sq km, making South Africa 411% larger than Ghana. Meanwhile, the population of Ghana is ~33.1 million people (24.4 million more people live in South Africa).
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