Country size comparison

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Rwanda is about 5 times smaller than Nicaragua.

Nicaragua is approximately 130,370 sq km, while Rwanda is approximately 26,338 sq km, making Rwanda 20.2% the size of Nicaragua. Meanwhile, the population of Nicaragua is ~6.3 million people (6.9 million more people live in Rwanda).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Nicaragua vs. Rwanda uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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