Country size comparison
Costa Rica
compared to
Laos
Costa Rica is about 4.6 times smaller than Laos.
Laos is approximately 236,800 sq km, while Costa Rica is approximately 51,100 sq km, making Costa Rica 21.58% the size of Laos. Meanwhile, the population of Laos is ~7.7 million people (2.5 million fewer people live in Costa Rica).
We have positioned the outline of Laos near the middle of Costa Rica.
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This to-scale comparison of
Laos
vs.
Costa Rica
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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