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.

Share this