California is about 3.1 times bigger than Nicaragua.

Nicaragua is approximately 130,370 sq km, while California is approximately 403,882 sq km, making California 210% larger than Nicaragua. Meanwhile, the population of Nicaragua is ~6.3 million people (31.0 million more people live in California).
This to-scale comparison of Nicaragua vs. California uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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