Country size comparison

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Kentucky is about 1.3 times smaller than Nicaragua.

Nicaragua is approximately 130,370 sq km, while Kentucky is approximately 102,896 sq km, making Kentucky 78.93% the size of Nicaragua. Meanwhile, the population of Nicaragua is ~6.3 million people (2.0 million fewer people live in Kentucky).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Nicaragua vs. Kentucky uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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