Nicaragua is 12 times larger than Los Angeles County, California.
Area: 130,370 km2 World Factbook
Population: 5,848,641 (July 2014) World Factbook
Nicaragua, officially the Republic of Nicaragua, is the largest country in the Central American isthmus, bordering Honduras to the north and Costa Rica to the south. Wikipedia
Area: 10,580 km2 calculated
Los Angeles County, also known as L.A. County, officially the County of Los Angeles, is a county in the U.S. state of California. As of the 2010 U.S. Census, the county has a population of 9,818,605, making it the most populous county in the United States. Wikipedia