Country size comparison
compared to
Costa Rica is about 11 times smaller than France.
France is approximately 551,500 sq km, while Costa Rica is approximately 51,100 sq km, making Costa Rica 9.27% the size of France. Meanwhile, the population of France is ~68.3 million people (63.1 million fewer people live in Costa Rica).
This to-scale comparison of
France
vs.
Costa Rica
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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