Country size comparison
compared to
Costa Rica is about 5 times smaller than Burkina Faso.
Burkina Faso is approximately 274,200 sq km, while Costa Rica is approximately 51,100 sq km, making Costa Rica 18.64% the size of Burkina Faso. Meanwhile, the population of Burkina Faso is ~21.9 million people (16.7 million fewer people live in Costa Rica).
This to-scale comparison of
Burkina Faso
vs.
Costa Rica
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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