Country size comparison
compared to
Costa Rica is about 1.4 times smaller than Ireland.
Ireland is approximately 70,273 sq km, while Costa Rica is approximately 51,100 sq km, making Costa Rica 72.72% the size of Ireland. Meanwhile, the population of Ireland is ~5.3 million people (70,593 fewer people live in Costa Rica).
This to-scale comparison of
Ireland
vs.
Costa Rica
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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