Country size comparison
compared to
Nicaragua is about 3.1 times smaller than California.
California is approximately 403,882 sq km, while Nicaragua is approximately 130,370 sq km, making Nicaragua 32.28% the size of California. Meanwhile, the population of California is ~37.3 million people (31.0 million fewer people live in Nicaragua).
This to-scale comparison of
California
vs.
Nicaragua
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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