Nicaragua is about 1.3 times bigger than Kentucky.

Kentucky is approximately 102,896 sq km, while Nicaragua is approximately 130,370 sq km, making Nicaragua 27% larger than Kentucky. Meanwhile, the population of Kentucky is ~4.3 million people (2.0 million more people live in Nicaragua).
This to-scale comparison of Kentucky vs. Nicaragua uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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