Country size comparison

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Nicaragua is about 10 times smaller than Mali.

Mali is approximately 1,240,192 sq km, while Nicaragua is approximately 130,370 sq km, making Nicaragua 10.51% the size of Mali. Meanwhile, the population of Mali is ~25.2 million people (18.2 million fewer people live in Nicaragua).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Mali vs. Nicaragua uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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