Country size comparison
compared to
Nicaragua is around the same size as Mississippi.
Mississippi is approximately 121,489 sq km, while Nicaragua is approximately 130,370 sq km, making Nicaragua 7% larger than Mississippi. Meanwhile, the population of Mississippi is ~3.0 million people (3.3 million more people live in Nicaragua).
This to-scale comparison of
Mississippi
vs.
Nicaragua
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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