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).
This to-scale comparison of
Nicaragua
vs.
Iowa
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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