Country size comparison

compared to

Nicaragua is about 2.1 times smaller than New Zealand.

New Zealand is approximately 268,838 sq km, while Nicaragua is approximately 130,370 sq km, making Nicaragua 48.49% the size of New Zealand. Meanwhile, the population of New Zealand is ~5.1 million people (1.2 million more people live in Nicaragua).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of New Zealand vs. Nicaragua uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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