Country size comparison
compared to
Nicaragua is around the same size as New York.
New York is approximately 122,283 sq km, while Nicaragua is approximately 130,370 sq km, making Nicaragua 7% larger than New York. Meanwhile, the population of New York is ~19.4 million people (13.1 million fewer people live in Nicaragua).
This to-scale comparison of
New York
vs.
Nicaragua
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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