Country size comparison

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Nicaragua is around the same size as Iowa.

Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km, while Nicaragua is approximately 130,370 sq km, making Nicaragua 90.1% the size of Iowa. Meanwhile, the population of Iowa is ~3.0 million people (3.3 million more people live in Nicaragua).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Iowa vs. Nicaragua uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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