Country size comparison

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Kuwait is about 7 times smaller than Nicaragua.

Nicaragua is approximately 130,370 sq km, while Kuwait is approximately 17,818 sq km, making Kuwait 13.67% the size of Nicaragua. Meanwhile, the population of Nicaragua is ~6.3 million people (3.2 million fewer people live in Kuwait).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Nicaragua vs. Kuwait uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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