Country size comparison

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Vanuatu is about 11 times smaller than Nicaragua.

Nicaragua is approximately 130,370 sq km, while Vanuatu is approximately 12,189 sq km, making Vanuatu 9.35% the size of Nicaragua. Meanwhile, the population of Nicaragua is ~6.3 million people (6.0 million fewer people live in Vanuatu).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Nicaragua vs. Vanuatu uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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