Country size comparison
compared to
Puerto Rico is about 14 times smaller than Nicaragua.
Nicaragua is approximately 130,370 sq km, while Puerto Rico is approximately 9,104 sq km, making Puerto Rico 6.98% the size of Nicaragua. Meanwhile, the population of Nicaragua is ~6.3 million people (3.2 million fewer people live in Puerto Rico).
This to-scale comparison of
Nicaragua
vs.
Puerto Rico
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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