Country size comparison

compared to

New Jersey is about 7 times smaller than Nicaragua.

Nicaragua is approximately 130,370 sq km, while New Jersey is approximately 19,211 sq km, making New Jersey 14.74% the size of Nicaragua. Meanwhile, the population of Nicaragua is ~6.3 million people (2.5 million more people live in New Jersey).

Tip: This to-scale comparison of Nicaragua vs. New Jersey uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.