Country size comparison
Costa Rica
compared to
Iraq
Costa Rica is about 9 times smaller than Iraq.
Iraq is approximately 438,317 sq km, while Costa Rica is approximately 51,100 sq km, making Costa Rica 11.66% the size of Iraq. Meanwhile, the population of Iraq is ~40.5 million people (35.3 million fewer people live in Costa Rica).
We have positioned the outline of Iraq near the middle of Costa Rica.
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This to-scale comparison of
Iraq
vs.
Costa Rica
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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