Country size comparison

compared to

North Carolina is around the same size as Nicaragua.

Nicaragua is approximately 130,370 sq km, while North Carolina is approximately 126,161 sq km, making North Carolina 96.77% the size of Nicaragua. Meanwhile, the population of Nicaragua is ~6.3 million people (3.2 million more people live in North Carolina).

Tip: This to-scale comparison of Nicaragua vs. North Carolina uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.