Country size comparison

compared to

New York is around the same size as Nicaragua.

Nicaragua is approximately 130,370 sq km, while New York is approximately 122,283 sq km, making New York 93.8% the size of Nicaragua. Meanwhile, the population of Nicaragua is ~6.3 million people (13.1 million more people live in New York).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Nicaragua vs. New York uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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