Country size comparison
compared to
Algeria is about 47 times bigger than Costa Rica.
Costa Rica is approximately 51,100 sq km, while Algeria is approximately 2,381,740 sq km, making Algeria 4,561% larger than Costa Rica. Meanwhile, the population of Costa Rica is ~5.2 million people (39.0 million more people live in Algeria).
This to-scale comparison of
Costa Rica
vs.
Algeria
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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