Country size comparison

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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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