Country size comparison
compared to
Costa Rica is about 2.6 times smaller than Alabama.
Alabama is approximately 131,426 sq km, while Costa Rica is approximately 51,100 sq km, making Costa Rica 38.88% the size of Alabama. Meanwhile, the population of Alabama is ~4.8 million people (424,675 more people live in Costa Rica).
This to-scale comparison of
Alabama
vs.
Costa Rica
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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