Country size comparison
compared to
Costa Rica is about 2.1 times smaller than Guatemala.
Guatemala is approximately 108,889 sq km, while Costa Rica is approximately 51,100 sq km, making Costa Rica 46.93% the size of Guatemala. Meanwhile, the population of Guatemala is ~17.7 million people (12.5 million fewer people live in Costa Rica).
This to-scale comparison of
Guatemala
vs.
Costa Rica
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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