Country size comparison
compared to
Costa Rica is about 1.7 times bigger than Belgium.
Belgium is approximately 30,528 sq km, while Costa Rica is approximately 51,100 sq km, making Costa Rica 67% larger than Belgium. Meanwhile, the population of Belgium is ~11.8 million people (6.6 million fewer people live in Costa Rica).
This to-scale comparison of
Belgium
vs.
Costa Rica
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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