Country size comparison

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Japan is about 2.9 times bigger than Nicaragua.

Nicaragua is approximately 130,370 sq km, while Japan is approximately 377,915 sq km, making Japan 190% larger than Nicaragua. Meanwhile, the population of Nicaragua is ~7.0 million people (116.4 million more people live in Japan).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Nicaragua vs. Japan uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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