Nicaragua is Central America's largest country, the Land of Lakes and Volcanoes. Lake Nicaragua contains freshwater sharks. It has beautiful colonial cities like Granada.
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These figures are calculated from the data on this page and compared with the other 195 countries Beelad covers.
| Population density | 52 people per km² rank 133 of 196 (highest first); the average across all 196 countries is 60 per km² |
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| Share of world population | 0.0843 % world total: 8,091,734,930 (UN, 1 July 2023) |
| Share of North America | 1.1% of its people, 0.579% of its land area |
| Area in square miles | 50,337 1 km² = 0.386 sq mi |
| Closest in size | Greece (131,957 km²) |
| Closest in population | Paraguay (6,844,146 people) |
Nicaragua is the only country in our list that uses NIO.