Country size comparison

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Nicaragua is about 2.2 times smaller than Ecuador.

Ecuador is approximately 283,561 sq km, while Nicaragua is approximately 130,370 sq km, making Nicaragua 45.98% the size of Ecuador. Meanwhile, the population of Ecuador is ~18.3 million people (11.3 million fewer people live in Nicaragua).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Ecuador vs. Nicaragua uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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Moving from Nicaragua to Ecuador · UN DESA 2020
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