Country size comparison

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Nicaragua is about 4.5 times smaller than Botswana.

Botswana is approximately 581,730 sq km, while Nicaragua is approximately 130,370 sq km, making Nicaragua 22.41% the size of Botswana. Meanwhile, the population of Botswana is ~2.4 million people (3.9 million more people live in Nicaragua).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Botswana vs. Nicaragua uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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