Country size comparison

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Nicaragua is about 10 times smaller than Chad.

Chad is approximately 1,284,000 sq km, while Nicaragua is approximately 130,370 sq km, making Nicaragua 10.15% the size of Chad. Meanwhile, the population of Chad is ~18.0 million people (11.7 million fewer people live in Nicaragua).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Chad vs. Nicaragua uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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