Texas is about 5 times bigger than Nicaragua.

Nicaragua is approximately 130,370 sq km, while Texas is approximately 678,052 sq km, making Texas 420% larger than Nicaragua. Meanwhile, the population of Nicaragua is ~7.0 million people (24.7 million more people live in Texas).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Nicaragua vs. Texas uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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