Country size comparison

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Netherlands is about 3.1 times smaller than Nicaragua.

Nicaragua is approximately 130,370 sq km, while Netherlands is approximately 41,543 sq km, making Netherlands 31.87% the size of Nicaragua. Meanwhile, the population of Nicaragua is ~6.3 million people (11.1 million more people live in Netherlands).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Nicaragua vs. Netherlands uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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