Country size comparison

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Nicaragua is about 1.4 times smaller than Uruguay.

Uruguay is approximately 176,215 sq km, while Nicaragua is approximately 130,370 sq km, making Nicaragua 73.98% the size of Uruguay. Meanwhile, the population of Uruguay is ~3.4 million people (2.9 million more people live in Nicaragua).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Uruguay vs. Nicaragua uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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