Country size comparison
compared to
Syria is about 1.4 times bigger than Nicaragua.
Nicaragua is approximately 130,370 sq km, while Syria is approximately 187,437 sq km, making Syria 44% larger than Nicaragua. Meanwhile, the population of Nicaragua is ~6.3 million people (15.3 million more people live in Syria).
This to-scale comparison of
Nicaragua
vs.
Syria
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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