Country size comparison

compared to

Belgium is about 4.3 times smaller than Nicaragua.

Nicaragua is approximately 130,370 sq km, while Belgium is approximately 30,528 sq km, making Belgium 23.42% the size of Nicaragua. Meanwhile, the population of Nicaragua is ~6.3 million people (5.5 million more people live in Belgium).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Nicaragua vs. Belgium uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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