Country size comparison
compared to
Arkansas is about 2.6 times bigger than Costa Rica.
Costa Rica is approximately 51,100 sq km, while Arkansas is approximately 134,856 sq km, making Arkansas 164% larger than Costa Rica. Meanwhile, the population of Costa Rica is ~5.2 million people (2.3 million fewer people live in Arkansas).
This to-scale comparison of
Costa Rica
vs.
Arkansas
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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