Country size comparison

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Belgium is about 1.7 times smaller than Costa Rica.

Costa Rica is approximately 51,100 sq km, while Belgium is approximately 30,528 sq km, making Belgium 59.74% the size of Costa Rica. Meanwhile, the population of Costa Rica is ~5.2 million people (6.6 million more people live in Belgium).
This to-scale comparison of Costa Rica vs. Belgium uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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