Country size comparison

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Nicaragua is about 5 times smaller than Afghanistan.

Afghanistan is approximately 652,230 sq km, while Nicaragua is approximately 130,370 sq km, making Nicaragua 19.99% the size of Afghanistan. Meanwhile, the population of Afghanistan is ~38.3 million people (32.0 million fewer people live in Nicaragua).
This to-scale comparison of Afghanistan vs. Nicaragua uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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