Country size comparison
compared to
South Africa is about 9 times bigger than Nicaragua.
Nicaragua is approximately 130,370 sq km, while South Africa is approximately 1,219,090 sq km, making South Africa 835% larger than Nicaragua. Meanwhile, the population of Nicaragua is ~6.3 million people (51.2 million more people live in South Africa).
This to-scale comparison of
Nicaragua
vs.
South Africa
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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