Country size comparison

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Nicaragua is about 1.9 times smaller than Michigan.

Michigan is approximately 250,493 sq km, while Nicaragua is approximately 130,370 sq km, making Nicaragua 52.05% the size of Michigan. Meanwhile, the population of Michigan is ~9.9 million people (3.6 million fewer people live in Nicaragua).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Michigan vs. Nicaragua uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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