Country size comparison
compared to
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).
This to-scale comparison of
Illinois
vs.
Nicaragua
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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