Country size comparison
compared to
Afghanistan is about 13 times bigger than Costa Rica.
Costa Rica is approximately 51,100 sq km, while Afghanistan is approximately 652,230 sq km, making Afghanistan 1,176% larger than Costa Rica. Meanwhile, the population of Costa Rica is ~5.2 million people (33.1 million more people live in Afghanistan).
This to-scale comparison of
Costa Rica
vs.
Afghanistan
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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