Country size comparison
compared to
Ghana is about 1.7 times bigger than Illinois.
Illinois is approximately 143,961 sq km, while Ghana is approximately 238,533 sq km, making Ghana 66% larger than Illinois. Meanwhile, the population of Illinois is ~12.8 million people (20.3 million more people live in Ghana).
This to-scale comparison of
Illinois
vs.
Ghana
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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