Qatar is about 11 times smaller than Nicaragua.

Nicaragua is approximately 130,370 sq km, while Qatar is approximately 11,586 sq km, making Qatar 8.89% the size of Nicaragua. Meanwhile, the population of Nicaragua is ~7.0 million people (4.0 million fewer people live in Qatar).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Nicaragua vs. Qatar uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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