Country size comparison
compared to
Costa Rica is about 4.5 times bigger than Gambia.
Gambia is approximately 11,300 sq km, while Costa Rica is approximately 51,100 sq km, making Costa Rica 352% larger than Gambia. Meanwhile, the population of Gambia is ~2.4 million people (2.8 million more people live in Costa Rica).
This to-scale comparison of
Gambia
vs.
Costa Rica
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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