Country size comparison

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Nicaragua is about 8 times smaller than Ethiopia.

Ethiopia is approximately 1,104,300 sq km, while Nicaragua is approximately 130,370 sq km, making Nicaragua 11.81% the size of Ethiopia. Meanwhile, the population of Ethiopia is ~135.5 million people (128.5 million fewer people live in Nicaragua).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Ethiopia vs. Nicaragua uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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