Samoa is about 46 times smaller than Nicaragua.

Nicaragua is approximately 130,370 sq km, while Samoa is approximately 2,831 sq km, making Samoa 2.17% the size of Nicaragua. Meanwhile, the population of Nicaragua is ~7.0 million people (6.8 million fewer people live in Samoa).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Nicaragua vs. Samoa uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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