Country size comparison

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Sao Tome and Principe is about 135 times smaller than Nicaragua.

Nicaragua is approximately 130,370 sq km, while Sao Tome and Principe is approximately 964 sq km, making Sao Tome and Principe 0.74% the size of Nicaragua. Meanwhile, the population of Nicaragua is ~6.3 million people (6.1 million fewer people live in Sao Tome and Principe).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Nicaragua vs. Sao Tome and Principe uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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