Country size comparison

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Nicaragua is about 10 times smaller than Peru.

Peru is approximately 1,285,216 sq km, while Nicaragua is approximately 130,370 sq km, making Nicaragua 10.14% the size of Peru. Meanwhile, the population of Peru is ~32.3 million people (26.0 million fewer people live in Nicaragua).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Peru vs. Nicaragua uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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Moving from Nicaragua to Peru · UN DESA 2020
303 people born in Nicaragua live in Peru.
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