Country size comparison

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Maryland is about 5 times smaller than Nicaragua.

Nicaragua is approximately 130,370 sq km, while Maryland is approximately 25,314 sq km, making Maryland 19.42% the size of Nicaragua. Meanwhile, the population of Nicaragua is ~6.3 million people (528,328 fewer people live in Maryland).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Nicaragua vs. Maryland uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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