Country size comparison
compared to
Nicaragua is about 2 times smaller than Western Sahara.
Western Sahara is approximately 266,000 sq km, while Nicaragua is approximately 130,370 sq km, making Nicaragua 49.01% the size of Western Sahara. Meanwhile, the population of Western Sahara is ~652,271 people (5.6 million more people live in Nicaragua).
This to-scale comparison of
Western Sahara
vs.
Nicaragua
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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