Country size comparison

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Nicaragua is around the same size as Illinois.

Illinois is approximately 143,961 sq km, while Nicaragua is approximately 130,370 sq km, making Nicaragua 90.56% the size of Illinois. Meanwhile, the population of Illinois is ~12.8 million people (6.5 million fewer people live in Nicaragua).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Illinois vs. Nicaragua uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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