Country size comparison

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Malaysia is about 2.5 times bigger than Nicaragua.

Nicaragua is approximately 130,370 sq km, while Malaysia is approximately 329,847 sq km, making Malaysia 153% larger than Nicaragua. Meanwhile, the population of Nicaragua is ~6.3 million people (27.6 million more people live in Malaysia).
This to-scale comparison of Nicaragua vs. Malaysia uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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