Country size comparison

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Djibouti is about 6 times smaller than Nicaragua.

Nicaragua is approximately 130,370 sq km, while Djibouti is approximately 23,200 sq km, making Djibouti 17.8% the size of Nicaragua. Meanwhile, the population of Nicaragua is ~6.3 million people (5.3 million fewer people live in Djibouti).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Nicaragua vs. Djibouti uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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