Country size comparison

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Guatemala is about 1.2 times smaller than Nicaragua.

Nicaragua is approximately 130,370 sq km, while Guatemala is approximately 108,889 sq km, making Guatemala 83.52% the size of Nicaragua. Meanwhile, the population of Nicaragua is ~6.3 million people (11.4 million more people live in Guatemala).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Nicaragua vs. Guatemala uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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