Country size comparison
compared to
Nicaragua is about 9 times smaller than South Africa.
South Africa is approximately 1,219,090 sq km, while Nicaragua is approximately 130,370 sq km, making Nicaragua 10.69% the size of South Africa. Meanwhile, the population of South Africa is ~57.5 million people (51.2 million fewer people live in Nicaragua).
This to-scale comparison of
South Africa
vs.
Nicaragua
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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