Country size comparison

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Peru is about 10 times bigger than Nicaragua.

Nicaragua is approximately 130,370 sq km, while Peru is approximately 1,285,216 sq km, making Peru 886% larger than Nicaragua. Meanwhile, the population of Nicaragua is ~6.3 million people (26.0 million more people live in Peru).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Nicaragua vs. Peru uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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