Country size comparison

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Nicaragua is about 18 times smaller than Algeria.

Algeria is approximately 2,381,740 sq km, while Nicaragua is approximately 130,370 sq km, making Nicaragua 5.47% the size of Algeria. Meanwhile, the population of Algeria is ~44.2 million people (37.9 million fewer people live in Nicaragua).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Algeria vs. Nicaragua uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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