Nicaragua is 4.97× the size of Sicily (Italy)

Nicaragua (North America) covers about 129,000 km² (49,700 mi²) and Sicily (Italy) (region of Italy) about 25,900 km² (9,990 mi²). Below, both outlines are drawn at one scale and centred on each other.

129,000km²Nicaragua
25,900km²Sicily (Italy)

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Nicaragua
Sicily (Italy)

What fits

Sicily (Italy) fits inside Nicaragua about 4.97 times by area.
Nicaragua is larger by 103,000 km² (39,700 mi²), which is 397% of the area of Sicily (Italy).
Measured in Belgiums: Nicaragua is about 4.20, Sicily (Italy) about 0.84.

How they differ

Nicaragua also has the larger population: 5.1 million against 5.0 million, 1.03× as many people.
Per square kilometre that is 193 in Sicily (Italy) against 40 in Nicaragua: Sicily (Italy) is 4.82× as densely populated.
Their centres are about 9,930 km apart.
A standard web map misstates the comparison: Nicaragua at 13°N is drawn about 1.1× too large and Sicily (Italy) at 38°N about 1.6×, so the map shows Nicaragua as 3.29× the size of Sicily (Italy) instead of 4.97×.
Together Nicaragua and Sicily (Italy) cover 155,000 km², close to the size of Tunisia (157,000 km², 1.3% bigger).
The gap between them, 103,000 km², is about the size of Iceland (102,000 km²).
At Sicily (Italy)'s density, Nicaragua would have 24.8 million people (it has 5.1 million). At Nicaragua's density, Sicily (Italy) would have 1.0 million (it has 5.0 million).
Sicily (Italy)'s centre is 24.7° of latitude, about 2,750 km, farther north than Nicaragua's.
Nicaragua ranks 99th of 246 countries and territories by area.
Sicily (Italy) is the largest of the 20 regions of Italy and covers 8.6% of its area; it is the 8th most densely populated of them.
Sicily (Italy) lies about 25° of latitude (roughly 2,750 km) north of Nicaragua.
Shared out evenly, each person in Nicaragua would have about 25,030 m² and each person in Sicily (Italy) about 5,190 m².
Laid side by side, Nicaragua and Sicily (Italy) would cover 155,000 km², about the same size as Tunisia.
Together they have 10.1 million people, about as many people as Azerbaijan.
Counted as a country, Sicily (Italy) would rank 148th by area and 125th by population.

Side by side

	Nicaragua	Sicily (Italy)
Is a	CountryNorth America	RegionItaly
Area, measured	129,000 km²49,700 mi²	25,900 km²9,990 mi²
Official area	120,000 km²Wikidata	25,700 km²Wikidata
Rank by area	98th of 239worldwide	1st of 20in Italy
Population	5.1 millionWikidata, 2005	5.0 millionWikidata, 2019
Rank by population	124th of 237worldwide	4th of 20in Italy
Density	40 per km²	193 per km²
Capital	Managua	Palermo
Latitude range	11°N to 15°N	35°N to 39°N

Population: Wikidata 2005 and Wikidata 2019. Official figures: Wikidata (CC0).

Our measured 129,000 km² is 6.9% above Wikidata's official figure of 120,000 km². Official figures can include inland water or count land that an outline draws differently. This difference is flagged for review.
Wikidata's official figure of 25,700 km² agrees with our measured area of 25,900 km², to within 2%.

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Sources and method

Outlines: Natural Earth, 1:10m Admin 1 - States, Provinces, public domain for the region; Natural Earth, 1:10m Admin 0 - Countries, public domain. The outline of Sicily (Italy) is the provinces Natural Earth draws there, joined along their shared borders.
Boundary: De facto, as drawn by Natural Earth. A region is drawn whole, every island included; a country is its main territory.
Area: Measured on the WGS84 ellipsoid from the full-detail outlines, shown rounded.
Drawing: Each outline is projected with an equal-area projection centred on its own centroid, so areas stay true and the two can be laid over each other.
Data built: 2026-11-12

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