Country size comparison

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China is about 188 times bigger than Costa Rica.

Costa Rica is approximately 51,100 sq km, while China is approximately 9,596,960 sq km, making China 18,681% larger than Costa Rica. Meanwhile, the population of Costa Rica is ~5.2 million people (1.4 billion more people live in China).
This to-scale comparison of Costa Rica vs. China uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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