Country size comparison
compared to
Nicaragua is about 14 times smaller than Libya.
Libya is approximately 1,759,540 sq km, while Nicaragua is approximately 130,370 sq km, making Nicaragua 7.41% the size of Libya. Meanwhile, the population of Libya is ~7.1 million people (836,051 fewer people live in Nicaragua).
This to-scale comparison of
Libya
vs.
Nicaragua
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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