Country size comparison

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Mexico is about 15 times bigger than Nicaragua.

Nicaragua is approximately 130,370 sq km, while Mexico is approximately 1,964,375 sq km, making Mexico 1,407% larger than Nicaragua. Meanwhile, the population of Nicaragua is ~6.3 million people (122.8 million more people live in Mexico).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Nicaragua vs. Mexico uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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