Country size comparison
compared to
Nicaragua is about 3.5 times smaller than Papua New Guinea.
Papua New Guinea is approximately 462,840 sq km, while Nicaragua is approximately 130,370 sq km, making Nicaragua 28.17% the size of Papua New Guinea. Meanwhile, the population of Papua New Guinea is ~9.6 million people (3.3 million fewer people live in Nicaragua).
This to-scale comparison of
Papua New Guinea
vs.
Nicaragua
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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