Country size comparison
compared to
Nicaragua is about 2.9 times smaller than Japan.
Japan is approximately 377,915 sq km, while Nicaragua is approximately 130,370 sq km, making Nicaragua 34.5% the size of Japan. Meanwhile, the population of Japan is ~124.2 million people (117.9 million fewer people live in Nicaragua).
This to-scale comparison of
Japan
vs.
Nicaragua
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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