Country size comparison
compared to
Illinois is about 1.7 times smaller than Ghana.
Ghana is approximately 238,533 sq km, while Illinois is approximately 143,961 sq km, making Illinois 60.35% the size of Ghana. Meanwhile, the population of Ghana is ~33.1 million people (20.3 million fewer people live in Illinois).
This to-scale comparison of
Ghana
vs.
Illinois
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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