Country size comparison

compared to

Iowa is around the same size as Nicaragua.

Nicaragua is approximately 130,370 sq km, while Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km, making Iowa 11% larger than Nicaragua. Meanwhile, the population of Nicaragua is ~6.3 million people (3.3 million fewer people live in Iowa).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Nicaragua vs. Iowa uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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