Country size comparison

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Ethiopia is about 8 times bigger than Nicaragua.

Nicaragua is approximately 130,370 sq km, while Ethiopia is approximately 1,104,300 sq km, making Ethiopia 747% larger than Nicaragua. Meanwhile, the population of Nicaragua is ~6.3 million people (107.4 million more people live in Ethiopia).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Nicaragua vs. Ethiopia uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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