Country size comparison

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Portugal is about 1.4 times smaller than Nicaragua.

Nicaragua is approximately 130,370 sq km, while Portugal is approximately 92,090 sq km, making Portugal 70.64% the size of Nicaragua. Meanwhile, the population of Nicaragua is ~6.3 million people (3.9 million more people live in Portugal).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Nicaragua vs. Portugal uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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