Country size comparison

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Botswana is about 4.5 times bigger than Nicaragua.

Nicaragua is approximately 130,370 sq km, while Botswana is approximately 581,730 sq km, making Botswana 346% larger than Nicaragua. Meanwhile, the population of Nicaragua is ~6.3 million people (3.9 million fewer people live in Botswana).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Nicaragua vs. Botswana uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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