Country size comparison

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Nicaragua is about 13 times smaller than Iran.

Iran is approximately 1,648,195 sq km, while Nicaragua is approximately 130,370 sq km, making Nicaragua 7.91% the size of Iran. Meanwhile, the population of Iran is ~92.4 million people (85.4 million fewer people live in Nicaragua).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Iran vs. Nicaragua uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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