Country size comparison

compared to

South Korea is about 1.3 times smaller than Nicaragua.

Nicaragua is approximately 130,370 sq km, while South Korea is approximately 99,720 sq km, making South Korea 76.49% the size of Nicaragua. Meanwhile, the population of Nicaragua is ~6.3 million people (45.5 million more people live in South Korea).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Nicaragua vs. South Korea uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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Moving from South Korea to Nicaragua · UN DESA 2020
62 people born in South Korea live in Nicaragua.
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