Country size comparison

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Costa Rica is about 42 times smaller than Greenland.

Greenland is approximately 2,166,086 sq km, while Costa Rica is approximately 51,100 sq km, making Costa Rica 2.36% the size of Greenland. Meanwhile, the population of Greenland is ~57,792 people (5.1 million more people live in Costa Rica).
This to-scale comparison of Greenland vs. Costa Rica uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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