Country size comparison
compared to
Nicaragua is around the same size as Alabama.
Alabama is approximately 131,426 sq km,
while Nicaragua is approximately 130,370 sq km, making
Nicaragua 99.2% the size of Alabama.
Meanwhile, the population of Alabama is ~4.8 million people
(1.5 million more people live in Nicaragua).
This to-scale comparison of
Alabama
vs.
Nicaragua
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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