Country size comparison
compared to
Costa Rica is about 2.3 times smaller than Malawi.
Malawi is approximately 118,484 sq km, while Costa Rica is approximately 51,100 sq km, making Costa Rica 43.13% the size of Malawi. Meanwhile, the population of Malawi is ~20.8 million people (15.6 million fewer people live in Costa Rica).
This to-scale comparison of
Malawi
vs.
Costa Rica
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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