Country size comparison
compared to
Alabama is about 2.6 times bigger than Costa Rica.
Costa Rica is approximately 51,100 sq km, while Alabama is approximately 131,426 sq km, making Alabama 157% larger than Costa Rica. Meanwhile, the population of Costa Rica is ~5.2 million people (424,675 fewer people live in Alabama).
This to-scale comparison of
Costa Rica
vs.
Alabama
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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