Country size comparison

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Nicaragua is about 131 times smaller than Russia.

Russia is approximately 17,098,242 sq km, while Nicaragua is approximately 130,370 sq km, making Nicaragua 0.76% the size of Russia. Meanwhile, the population of Russia is ~142.0 million people (135.7 million fewer people live in Nicaragua).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Russia vs. Nicaragua uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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