Country size comparison

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Nicaragua is about 4.9 times smaller than Somalia.

Somalia is approximately 637,657 sq km, while Nicaragua is approximately 130,370 sq km, making Nicaragua 20.45% the size of Somalia. Meanwhile, the population of Somalia is ~19.7 million people (12.6 million fewer people live in Nicaragua).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Somalia vs. Nicaragua uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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