Country size comparison
compared to
Nicaragua is about 3.2 times bigger than Switzerland.
Switzerland is approximately 41,277 sq km, while Nicaragua is approximately 130,370 sq km, making Nicaragua 216% larger than Switzerland. Meanwhile, the population of Switzerland is ~8.5 million people (2.2 million fewer people live in Nicaragua).
This to-scale comparison of
Switzerland
vs.
Nicaragua
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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