Country size comparison

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Ecuador is about 2.2 times bigger than Nicaragua.

Nicaragua is approximately 130,370 sq km, while Ecuador is approximately 283,561 sq km, making Ecuador 118% larger than Nicaragua. Meanwhile, the population of Nicaragua is ~6.3 million people (11.0 million more people live in Ecuador).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Nicaragua vs. Ecuador uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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