Ghana

Facts

What the numbers say about Ghana

• Russia, the largest place listed, is 71.1× the size of Ghana.
• Ghana ranks 46th of 237 by population but only 81st of 239 by area: it holds more people than its size suggests.
• At 138 people per km², Ghana is the 49th most densely populated of the 185 places over 1,000 km²; the median is 72 per km².
• Ghana lies at 8°N, close to the equator, where a standard web map (Web Mercator) is nearly true to size: it inflates area by only about 1.0×.
• Laid out flat, Ghana's main territory stretches about 714 km north to south and 492 km east to west.
• Wikidata's official figure of 239,000 km² agrees with our measured area of 239,000 km², to within 2%.

How Ghana measures up

Ghana holds 0.8% of the land area and 2.3% of the people of the 54 countries listed for Africa. In Western Africa it is the 8th largest of 16.

Where Ghana sits

• Ghana's centre lies at 7.9°N, 1.2°W, in the northern and western hemispheres, about 880 km from the equator.
• Its main territory spans 5°N to 11°N, about 710 km from its southern edge to its northern.
• The prime meridian passes through it.

If Ghana had other densities

• At Bangladesh's density of 1,252 people per km², Ghana would have 298.9 million people. It has 32.8 million.
• At Canada's density of 3.7 people per km², Ghana would have 888,000 people. It has 32.8 million.
• At the median density of the places listed, 72 per km², it would have 17.3 million.

Compare Ghana

• Guinea vs Ghana
• United Kingdom vs Ghana
• Uganda vs Ghana
• Ghana vs Romania
• Italy vs Ghana
• Germany vs Ghana
• Ghana vs Laos
• Uttar Pradesh vs Ghana
• Ghana vs Guangxi
• Ghana vs Rondônia