Country size comparison
compared to
Costa Rica is about 2.8 times smaller than Iowa.
Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km, while Costa Rica is approximately 51,100 sq km, making Costa Rica 35.31% the size of Iowa. Meanwhile, the population of Iowa is ~3.0 million people (2.2 million more people live in Costa Rica).
This to-scale comparison of
Iowa
vs.
Costa Rica
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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