Country size comparison
compared to
Costa Rica is about 13 times smaller than Afghanistan.
Afghanistan is approximately 652,230 sq km, while Costa Rica is approximately 51,100 sq km, making Costa Rica 7.83% the size of Afghanistan. Meanwhile, the population of Afghanistan is ~38.3 million people (33.1 million fewer people live in Costa Rica).
This to-scale comparison of
Afghanistan
vs.
Costa Rica
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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