Country size comparison

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Nicaragua is about 1.4 times smaller than Syria.

Syria is approximately 187,437 sq km, while Nicaragua is approximately 130,370 sq km, making Nicaragua 69.55% the size of Syria. Meanwhile, the population of Syria is ~21.6 million people (15.3 million fewer people live in Nicaragua).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Syria vs. Nicaragua uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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