Country size comparison

compared to

Western Sahara is about 2 times bigger than Nicaragua.

Nicaragua is approximately 130,370 sq km, while Western Sahara is approximately 266,000 sq km, making Western Sahara 104% larger than Nicaragua. Meanwhile, the population of Nicaragua is ~6.3 million people (5.6 million fewer people live in Western Sahara).

Tip: This to-scale comparison of Nicaragua vs. Western Sahara uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.