Country size comparison

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Nicaragua is about 3.4 times smaller than Iraq.

Iraq is approximately 438,317 sq km, while Nicaragua is approximately 130,370 sq km, making Nicaragua 29.74% the size of Iraq. Meanwhile, the population of Iraq is ~40.5 million people (34.2 million fewer people live in Nicaragua).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Iraq vs. Nicaragua uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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