Country size comparison

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Colombia is about 9 times bigger than Nicaragua.

Nicaragua is approximately 130,370 sq km, while Colombia is approximately 1,138,910 sq km, making Colombia 774% larger than Nicaragua. Meanwhile, the population of Nicaragua is ~7.0 million people (46.4 million more people live in Colombia).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Nicaragua vs. Colombia uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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